Innovation and Farm Labour

09/29/2015

[shareaholic app="share_buttons" id="15180628"]For as long as there has been innovation, it has displaced labour. Innovations often improve the efficiency of… Read More

Robots in the Rhubarb

09/22/2015

Robots and Technology Innovations are Transforming Farming Two weeks ago, I was in Melbourne, Australia participating in the Agricultural Bioscience… Read More

Our Tasty Brains

09/15/2015

Could our brains be wired for unhealthy food choices? Last fall, I attended a behavioural economics conference in Denmark, where… Read More

The Cost of Regulatory Delays on Agriculture Innovations

09/07/2015

How Political Interference is Jeopardizing Agriculture Research in Developing Countries In Canada, the regulatory approval of all new crop varieties… Read More

The Changing Nature of Funding University Research

09/01/2015

The Important Role Private Company Funding Plays Thirty years ago, university research was funded primarily through federal and provincial government… Read More

Post Foods Consumer Scam

08/25/2015

Is deceptive labelling deceiving you? The other morning when I sat down to breakfast, I was absolutely floored (literally, not… Read More

Environmental Colonialism

08/18/2015

How environmental activists work to keep the poor, poor. Environmental non-governmental organizations (eNGOs) loudly proclaim biotechnology and genetically modified (GM)… Read More

The Buzz on Bees

08/11/2015

Are Farm Chemical Harming Bee Populations? Over the past decade, there has been considerable discussion and debate about what is… Read More

Banking for Sustainable Food

08/04/2015

Weeds genomes may someday be how we feed a sustainable world "Svalbard seed vault IMG 8894" by Bjoertvedt - Own… Read More

Drone Farming

07/28/2015

Can efficiencies increase if we farm from the sky? This past spring the US Federal Aviation Administration gave clearance for the… Read More