Using Livestock to Corral Climate Change
Livestock emit greenhouse gases, but could they also be climate change carbon savers? Climate change is real and in many instances, agriculture’s livestock is often …
Agriculture
Crunching the Big Numbers: Farm Startup Costs
What would it take to start farming on your own in 2020? In an industry born on family, tradition, and generational transfer, many farmers have …
Recognizing the Sustainability of Saskatchewan Farms
Over the last quarter-century, farmers have been working hard to adopt innovative and sustainable practices for their economic and environmental benefits. Two notable shifts in …
The EU’s Gene Editing Regulatory Dilemma
Scientists, grad students and fiscal research investments are all fleeing Europe As consumers, we all want to be reassured that the products we purchase are …
Evidence and its Importance for Policy Making
The ability of bias to affect assessment outcomes In the process of gathering information, data or evidence to facilitate policy development processes, the parameters placed …
Cash is King When it Comes to Farming
Farmers are proud to be landowners, establishing and growing farms that can be passed on through generations. The concept of growing crops on your own …
How information design shapes our decision-making?
Making decisions in the irrational world In a perfect world, people make rational decisions based on having complete information to evaluate alternatives and choose the …
Communicating Empirically-based Science is Important for Society, Not Misinformation
The costs of misinformation adversely affects everyone Science is not like ice cream. With ice cream, we all have our favourite flavours or brands of …
One Step Back and Two Steps Forward for Burger King
You’ve probably seen Burger King’s latest marketing video featuring Wal-Mart yodeler Mason Ramsey singing about methane emissions from cow farts and burps. The ad promotes …
Do not plant that seed!
Mysterious seeds are arriving in our mail all across Canada In early August, my lovely cousin Pat messaged me about a package she received in …