Trent Klarenbach, BSA AgEc, PAg, founder and lead analyst, Klarenbach Research, Saskatoon, SK.
Daily Edition
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Oct 12, 2026
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3 min read
Ten inches of extra rain swamps a Dacotah farm, Alberta's vote puts grain exports in question, and farm safety gets $1.07M.
Policy & Trade
Oct 10, 2026
2 min read
The 5 stories Daily Kernel readers couldn't stop clicking this week, from farmland values to China's tariff cliff.
Oct 9, 2026
4 min read
Canola sits at 72% combined, U.S. farm debt may be bigger than Washington can count, and World Egg Day turns 30.
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Oct 8, 2026
5 min read
FCC mid-year review shows Alberta outrunning Saskatchewan on land values, plus dyed diesel rules, fuel theft and a Sask ag scholarship.
Oct 7, 2026
Most agri-businesses paid more for coverage in 2026, farm credit demand is surging, and a Sask barley legend gets his due.
Oct 6, 2026
AAFC launches a $1B Food Link Fund for food hubs, plus fertilizer wild cards, comeback weeds, and a slow-moving seed unit.
Oct 5, 2026
Canola meal, pea and seafood tariff breaks hit a year-end cliff, while FCC courts private capital for its $1B processing fund.
Oct 3, 2026
This week's top reads: a U.S. dairy ban, Alberta's cattle tracing plan, a breeding push, and Sask harvest swings.
Oct 2, 2026
Plus a Belarus potash update, Clean Fuel Regulation changes that could reach the canola bin, and new VIDO animal disease hires.
Oct 1, 2026
Breeding funding ends in 2028, a 33-foot Canadian spray drone meets Transport Canada, and Alberta bets $5.9M on cattle genomics.
Sep 30, 2026
Plus a national ag-tech testing network, FBN teams with Google on farm AI, and a Kentucky tractor that plants alone.
Sep 29, 2026
Trump's import ban goes live, Omaha-built combines meet Canada's parts tariffs, and Sask Wheat takes over wheat research leadership.
Sep 28, 2026
Rain-stalled combines push Sask farmers to the edge. Plus: Brandt adds three dealer stops, and an Alberta ranch weans by the weather.
Sep 26, 2026
1 min read
This week's top 5: Moe's blood potash blowup with Trump, a farm-tech shortage, and a molasses ban nobody saw coming.
Sep 25, 2026
Record wheat export pace as Black Sea chaos shifts demand, plus Mondelez backs farm growth equity and whey tariffs bite.
Sep 23, 2026
8 in 10 dealers can't keep up with service demand, and fake online dealers are selling combines that don't exist. Here's the playbook.
Indian Head, Scott, Lacombe and Portage still on the list, as a new study pegs home processing at $5.4B and China buys peas.
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Sep 22, 2026
Sask's premier goes nuclear on Trump's fertilizer pivot, plus a $500 robot that kills weeds with a laser and Monette's feedlot fight.
Sep 21, 2026
A sugar lobby feud over "fake" Canadian molasses gets a Sept. 29 import ban, and dairy farmers who use the stuff are the innocent bystanders.
Sep 19, 2026
Beef trade reopens, a new potash deal lands, and Prairie farmers face rain delays, fuel spikes, and slow harvest progress.
Sep 18, 2026
Harvest is barely half the pace it should be, and Ottawa's answering with a mega-deduction on every tractor and screen you'll buy.
Sep 17, 2026
Rain won't quit, wheat's getting demoted to feed grade, and the U.S. cattle lobby just had a very polite panic attack about mCOOL.
Sep 16, 2026
Plus a $500M ag venture fund chasing Southeast Asia and an Ontario crop tour flirting with a record bean harvest.
Sep 15, 2026
Plus Ottawa's $1B food-processing fund and Alberta-B.C. ranchers teaming up for wildfire-hit herds.
Saskatchewan
Sep 14, 2026
Plus a $335K tractor sale, a new CEO for Sask Cattle, and why your yield monitor might be lying to you.
