Review of 2024
Challenges and Progress in the Agriculture Industry: A Year in Review The agriculture industry constantly faces challenges and adversities that try the patience and fortitude …
The Sweet Tradition of Christmas Oranges
It’s orange season! 🍊
Fall through December marks the start of the orange harvest in the Northern Hemisphere. This means enjoying Holiday or Christmas oranges (mandarins, satsumas, or clementines) a tradition here in Canada, thanks to Japanese immigrants a tradition for nearly 140 years.
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Sustainability Inexperience: Is the Environment Enough?
Agriculture Myth Busting Asking everyone to do their part to improve sustainable lifestyle choices often prioritizes one aspect: the environment. In the 1980s, when sustainable …
Food Price Increases are Starting to Slow Down
Announcing the 2025 Canada Food Price Report Today marks the release of the 15th annual Canada Food Price Report. The report is a result of …
Environmental Biotechnology Greenwashing
On June 20th, 2024, The Fall Economic Statement Implementation Act, 2023 (Bill C-59) came into effect. The Bill covers a wide range of issues, including …
It’s all about Chemicals
What some of you might not know about me, is that I am a NERD. Oh sorry, you know that already from my other blogs, …
The Grasslands are Going Space-age
On August 13, 2024 while SAIFood was on summer break, it was finally announced, that USASK researchers from the Departments of Geography and Planning, Plant …
The Ideal Future: Can We Ever Truly Be “Sustainable”?
Agriculture Myth Busting You read correctly: Agriculture Myth Busting has returned! To match some of the in-office conversations we’ve been having about its increasing generality …
Calling All Prairie Farmers!
We need your assistance to better inform policy makers. Over the past 30 years, Prairie farmers have been continuously adopting new technologies and practices that …
The Red Barn
Back in October, I referred to the nostalgic Red Barn in another post, which many conjure up in our heads when we think about a …