Innovating Your Supper Staple: Potatoes

11/07/2017

Will disease devastate spud production? The ease of growing and storing potatoes allowed it to spread around the world and… Read More

Sugary, Eerie, Haunting & Spooky

10/31/2017

Is Halloween a front to sell more of a sugary GM plant? What is scarier? The ghosts and goblins that… Read More

Private Sector Funding of University Research Worth $7 Billion a Year

10/24/2017

Is this a corruption of academic freedoms or simply how research is done in the 21st century? Many of the… Read More

The Attack of the Killer Non-GMO Verified Tomatoes

10/17/2017

I've been frustrated by the 'verification' labelling of non-GMO foods which fail to have GMO equivalents in the market. This… Read More

Communicating the Benefits of Agriculture Innovations

10/12/2017

Originally posted October 11, 2017 VIEWFROMTHERANCHPORCH As a professor in the College of Agriculture and Bioresources at the University of… Read More

Feeding a Future Population of 9-11 Billion

10/10/2017

The immense challenge facing us allWhile the science of increasing food security continues to make advancements, the politics of technology… Read More

Grocery shopping is undergoing a revolution, finally, thank goodness.

10/03/2017

I've bought clothes online along with furniture, flowers and books. But my favourite so far is groceries. While home delivery… Read More

Cassava, comment ça va?

09/26/2017

We forgot to ask the staple crop, cassava, how it was doing. Now we have damage control to do! Are… Read More

The Price of Animal Welfare: Economics of Humane Meat Certification

09/19/2017

By Claire Williams, Animal and Poultry Science Student, University of Saskatchewan Despite the constant confusion, there is a difference between… Read More

The Truth About GM Food Labels

09/12/2017

GM salmon available for sale in Canadian grocery stores - is this a GM food label you're looking for? In… Read More