Let’s Talk Farming: What’s the Scoop on Pesticides?
Let’s Talk Farming Series Saskatchewan farmers rely on a vast toolkit of technologies to produce their crops every year. Farming practices are always changing, and …
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Is our meat future cultured enough to accept change?
This meat has something to snout about The next stage of meat innovation is nearing, and it’s skipping the whole slaughter and processing steps. That …
Mushroom Farming – A Little Known Segment of Canadian Agriculture
Versatile and healthy ingredient Mushrooms are part of many of our favourite dishes. Whether they’re served as an appetizing stuffed mushroom cap or sliced into …
Environmentalists are wrong on technological tweaks to agriculture
The following article was originally posted by the Genetic Literacy Project (GLP), on October 17, 2022: Viewpoint: ‘Environmentalists are wrong on technological tweaks to agriculture’: …
Thanksgiving Celebrates All That Is Agriculture
Honouring those that keep everyone fed We celebrate a variety of holidays throughout the year, but it is Thanksgiving that is specifically focused on recognizing …
Let’s Talk Farming: What’s the Scoop on Fertilizer?
Let’s Talk Farming Series Saskatchewan farmers rely on a vast toolkit of technologies to produce their crops every year. Farming practices are always changing, and …
Plants Are Carbon Sequestration Factories
The vital human-plant relationship Humans and plants have a beneficial relationship, we breathe out carbon which through photosynthesis, plants use for growth and in this …
The Food Security Benefits from Genome Sequencing
A lengthy history of genome sequencing In the 1990s, the world witnessed an incredible scientific achievement, the sequencing of the human genome. This was a …
Environmental activist irony
The following article was originally posted by the Genetic Literacy Project (GLP), on August 25, 2022. Click here to see Dr. Smyth’s original post. Thank you to …
The Confusing Reality of Product of Canada and Made in Canada Food Labels
By Kinga Nolan B.Sc. in Agriculture, 2022 Consumers are bombarded with various labels and claims every time they visit a grocery store. Unlike the colour …