Is the future of meat consumption canned meat?
Uncertainty and increasing prices The past two years have shown how things can quickly change! When COVID-19 rolled into our lives, I expect few realized …
Regulatory Barriers on Drone Use are Impacting GHG Emissions
Harmony of policy across borders The harmonization of regulations between neighbouring countries makes everything easier. It is vital to ensure that identical products and technologies …
2022’s Global Potash Production Market
Concerns arising from unstable potash markets Times of conflict and war create chaos, uncertainty, and disruptions for markets. Markets hate uncertainty! One market that has …
The 2018 Canadian Consumer Perspective of Genome-Edited Foods
Canadians have high trust in Canada’s food safety system, but not new food products Gauging consumer attitudes to genetically modified (GM) crops has been taking …
How plant breeding innovations are helping to feed a hungry world
Mikaela Waldbauer University of Saskatchewan Student Guest Blogger As of 2019, nearly 26% of the globe’s population “experienced hunger or did not have regular” access …
Contributions of Genome Editing Towards SDG Achievement
Meeting the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) requires innovation Innovations in agriculture productivity between 2005 and 2015, greatly contributed to reductions in the number of people …
The Importance of GMOs
Hailey Lang University of Saskatchewan Student Guest Blogger What are GMOs? It appears everywhere you look and everyone you talk to has a different opinion …
The Importance of Livestock Pastures
Is all land used for livestock capable of producing plant proteins? Soil quality is crucial for all forms of protein production, regardless of whether the …
Health Canada’s New Guidelines on Gene-Edited Crops
Kaylee Dodds University of Saskatchewan Student Guest Blogger A year ago, on March 23, 2021, Health Canada proposed new guidelines for the regulation of gene-edited …
Mexico to Willingly Increase Consumer Prices for Chicken
Still in Limbo In December 2020, Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador publicly declared that Mexico would ban all imports of genetically modified (GM) corn …