Innovation and Farm Labour
[shareaholic app=”share_buttons” id=”15180628″]For as long as there has been innovation, it has displaced labour. Innovations often improve the efficiency of technology, reducing the cost of …
[shareaholic app=”share_buttons” id=”15180628″]For as long as there has been innovation, it has displaced labour. Innovations often improve the efficiency of technology, reducing the cost of …
Robots and Technology Innovations are Transforming Farming Two weeks ago, I was in Melbourne, Australia participating in the Agricultural Bioscience International Conference. It was an …
Could our brains be wired for unhealthy food choices? Last fall, I attended a behavioural economics conference in Denmark, where guest speaker Antonio Rangel, a …
The Important Role Private Company Funding Plays Thirty years ago, university research was funded primarily through federal and provincial government grants. This research was frequently …
Is deceptive labelling deceiving you? The other morning when I sat down to breakfast, I was absolutely floored (literally, not physically!) by Post Foods’ deliberate …
Urgent need to address a $1 billion/year problem One challenge for agriculture in the past few years has been the variation in approvals times of …
Can America and Canada’s Plant Regulatory Systems Become One System? Canada and the United States are each other’s largest trading partners. Of all the …
The lush tropical islands of the Hawaiian chain are an ideal place to grow fruit. Climate conditions that provide in excess of 100 inches of …
Protestors implying that farmers are bad stewards of their land This past weekend’s third annual worldwide event of the ‘March Against Monsanto’ signifies how disconnected …
From the Human Genome Project to plant breeding, genomic research is here to stay The desire to know more about how genomes work has attracted …