Indicting Greenpeace for Crimes Against Agriculture
Webcasting a University of Saskatchewan classroom debate I’ve been in agriculture all my life. I grew up on a mixed farm with a cow-calf herd …
Innovating Your Supper Staple: Potatoes
Will disease devastate spud production? The ease of growing and storing potatoes allowed it to spread around the world and onto our cultural menu. The …
Sugary, Eerie, Haunting & Spooky
Is Halloween a front to sell more of a sugary GM plant? What is scarier? The ghosts and goblins that come to your door tonight …
Private Sector Funding of University Research Worth $7 Billion a Year
Is this a corruption of academic freedoms or simply how research is done in the 21st century? Many of the things you have done today …
The Attack of the Killer Non-GMO Verified Tomatoes
I’ve been frustrated by the ‘verification’ labelling of non-GMO foods which fail to have GMO equivalents in the market. This past summer I decided to …
Communicating the Benefits of Agriculture Innovations
Originally posted October 11, 2017 VIEWFROMTHERANCHPORCH As a professor in the College of Agriculture and Bioresources at the University of Saskatchewan, there are two things …
Feeding a Future Population of 9-11 Billion
The immense challenge facing us all While the science of increasing food security continues to make advancements, the politics of technology options for feeding a …
Grocery shopping is undergoing a revolution, finally, thank goodness.
I’ve bought clothes online along with furniture, flowers and books. But my favourite so far is groceries. While home delivery has been an option with …
Cassava, comment ça va?
We forgot to ask the staple crop, cassava, how it was doing. Now we have damage control to do! Are you familiar with Cassava? You …
The Price of Animal Welfare: Economics of Humane Meat Certification
By Claire Williams, Animal and Poultry Science Student, University of Saskatchewan Despite the constant confusion, there is a difference between animal rights and animal welfare. …