Hybridization, breeding and hybrid cultivars

07/21/2015

By: Graham Scoles, Ph.D., PAg Hybridization Hybridization refers to the natural or deliberate pollination between two plants.  It occurs all… Read More

Four diverse views of the bioeconomy

07/14/2015

This past June we at SAIFood (Stuart & Savannah) travelled to Italy for the 19th International Consortium for Applied Bioeconomy… Read More

Potential Solution to Managing Asynchronous Approvals

07/07/2015

Urgent need to address a $1 billion/year problem One challenge for agriculture in the past few years has been the… Read More

Framing Effect in Psychology and Economics

06/30/2015

Understanding How & Why People Make The Decisions They Do Individuals communicate based on a lifetime of experiences. Communications are… Read More

Winners and Losers from GM Technologies and the Policy Response in the Organic Good Market

06/24/2015

Our very own Stuart Smyth of SAIFood and his colleagues of the University of Saskatchewan, William Kerr & Peter Phillips,… Read More

Improving Plant Variety Regulations

06/23/2015

Can America and Canada’s Plant Regulatory Systems Become One System?   Canada and the United States are each other’s largest… Read More

Approvals of GM crops

06/16/2015

Trying to reach new levels of crop technology with stagnant regulations Genetically modified (GM) crops have been produced for 20… Read More

Coexistence

06/09/2015

Managing the Production of Conventional, GM & Organic Crops The ability to produce conventional, GM or organic crops is important… Read More

How GM papaya saved Hawaii’s papaya industry

06/02/2015

The lush tropical islands of the Hawaiian chain are an ideal place to grow fruit. Climate conditions that provide in… Read More

The Real Message in the ‘March Against Monsanto’

05/26/2015

Protestors implying that farmers are bad stewards of their land This past weekend’s third annual worldwide event of the ‘March… Read More