New Crop Varieties: The Journey from Lab to Field – Seeding

06/04/2019

Part 4: Seeding Variety Test Plots This is the fourth of a series of #LabToField blogs that will explain the… Read More

Understanding the Implications of Plant Digital Sequence Information

05/28/2019

This blog is based on the ‘Governance of Digital Sequence Information and Impacts for Access and Benefit Sharing’ technical report… Read More

New Crop Varieties: The Journey from Lab to Field – Seed Lab

05/22/2019

Part 3: Developing New Varieties at the Crop Science Field Laboratory This is the third post of a series of… Read More

Australian Greenpeace Activists Criminally Guilty

05/14/2019

Greenpeace forced to pay over $250,000 Greenpeace was founded in Canada in 1971, with an objective of using science to… Read More

New Crop Varieties: The Journey from Lab to Field – Greenhouses

05/07/2019

Part 2: A Visit to the Agriculture Greenhouses This is the second post of a series of #LabToField blogs that… Read More

The Politics of Risk

04/30/2019

Safe foods and technologies no longer reaching some markets Risk is an odd thing in modern societies. Most of us… Read More

New Crop Varieties: The Journey from Lab to Field – Phytotron

04/24/2019

Spring has sprung. As the sun and warm temperatures melt away the remnants of winter, farmers across Canada are gearing… Read More

Experts are Hopeful for More Nutritious Foods

04/16/2019

Numerous other consumer benefits expected Over the past three years, my research team has been surveying an international panel of… Read More

Glyphosate: Weed killer or desiccant?

04/09/2019

By Myles Dupin, University of Saskatchewan Student Should we scrap the pre-harvest application of glyphosate? Glyphosate used as a desiccant… Read More

Cattle Handling: The Importance of Consumer Knowledge to The Beef Sector

04/02/2019

By Chayce Gavelin, University of Saskatchewan Student Family farming is seeing a change in direction. In recent generations, grown children… Read More