Seeding Costs – A Risky Investment

06/13/2023

Most Canadians living on the Prairies are familiar with the busy planting season that comes around for farmers each spring.… Read More

Canada Confirms Gene Editing Technologies are Conventional Plant Breeding

06/06/2023

After months of anticipation, on May 3rd, 2023, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) publicly confirmed that plant varieties developed by… Read More

Implications of Genetically Modified Organisms

05/30/2023

By Dawson Hering, University of Saskatchewan student Introduction Growing up on a grain farm in Saskatchewan, I always assumed that… Read More

Neonicotinoids and Honeybees: Are agricultural chemicals harming honeybees?

05/16/2023

A meta-analysis of field experiment data Pollinators play a crucial role in the production of food crops. While many crops… Read More

The Mental Health Crisis in Agriculture

05/09/2023

By Hailey Cleave, University of Saskatchewan student   Mental health is becoming a widely discussed issue throughout industries across the… Read More

GMO Indecision of the Chinese Superpower

05/02/2023

China is a superpower. In 2021, China accounted for 18% of the world’s population and had the second largest GDP… Read More

The Difference Between Academics and Activists

04/25/2023

Academics Accept Evidence, Activists Reject It   Development of the empirical knowledge process In the 1660s, Robert Boyle advocated that… Read More

Climate Change Contributions from Seed and Crop Technologies

04/18/2023

The use of modern seed genetics (which includes genetically modified (GM) crops, chemical and fertilizer use) greatly contributes to improved… Read More

Biotechnology: Using Benefit-Cost Analyses

04/11/2023

The following article was originally posted by the Genetic Literacy Project (GLP), on February 13, 2023: Using cost-benefit analysis: Crop biotechnology… Read More