Drone Farming
Can efficiencies increase if we farm from the sky? This past spring the US Federal Aviation Administration gave clearance for the use of drones for agriculture …
Hybridization, breeding and hybrid cultivars
By: Graham Scoles, Ph.D., PAg Hybridization Hybridization refers to the natural or deliberate pollination between two plants. It occurs all the time in the wild …
Four diverse views of the bioeconomy
This past June we at SAIFood (Stuart & Savannah) travelled to Italy for the 19th International Consortium for Applied Bioeconomy Research (ICABR) conference. The conference …
Potential Solution to Managing Asynchronous Approvals
Urgent need to address a $1 billion/year problem One challenge for agriculture in the past few years has been the variation in approvals times of …
Framing Effect in Psychology and Economics
Understanding How & Why People Make The Decisions They DoIndividuals communicate based on a lifetime of experiences. Communications are ‘framed’ by an individual’s positive or …
Winners and Losers from GM Technologies and the Policy Response in the Organic Good Market
Our very own Stuart Smyth of SAIFood and his colleagues of the University of Saskatchewan, William Kerr & Peter Phillips, have just been published in …
Improving Plant Variety Regulations
Can America and Canada’s Plant Regulatory Systems Become One System? Canada and the United States are each other’s largest trading partners. Of all the …
Approvals of GM crops
Trying to reach new levels of crop technology with stagnant regulations Genetically modified (GM) crops have been produced for 20 years and have become essential …
Coexistence
Managing the Production of Conventional, GM & Organic Crops The ability to produce conventional, GM or organic crops is important to all farmers, regardless of …
How GM papaya saved Hawaii’s papaya industry
The lush tropical islands of the Hawaiian chain are an ideal place to grow fruit. Climate conditions that provide in excess of 100 inches of …