New Year, New Opportunity
Welcome Back to SAIFood 2026 As agricultural economists, we are sometimes asked to predict the future of food. How is production changing? Where should investments …
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2025 Year End
Trade, Tariffs, and Turmoil It’s been a T3 year: trade, tariffs and the resulting turmoil. It’s increasingly clear that the globalization era that has existed …
Listen and Share: Reflections from Cultivating Resilience
Returning to the west coast for the two days of the Cultivating Resilience Summit this year was almost a return to form for me. I …
DNA Series: Conventional breeding
The DNA Series: Hello everyone, this is going to be a series of blog posts. Stay tuned so you don’t lose a single one! For …
Welcome Luíza
It is a pleasure to formally announce the newest addition to the SAIFood Team, Dr. Luíza Favaratto! We have been lucky enough to have Luíza …
Welcome to the 11th Year of SAIFood Blogs!
Welcome Back! My team and I take July and August off from writing blogs to reduce the weekly time demands, allow everyone to take some …
Highlights of the 2024-2025 SAIFood Year
Thank you, SAIFood Readers At the end of every academic year, I am amazed by the productivity of the research team I lead. Over the …
Calling All Prairie Farmers!
We need your assistance to better inform policy makers. Over the past 30 years, Prairie farmers have been continuously adopting new technologies and practices that …
A Summer Without Fruit
Unpacking the BC Tree Fruit Co-op Closure Picture this… It is the last week of July 2024. The Okanagan is the hottest it has ever …
Highlights of the ICABR’s 28th Conference
From June 11-14, I had the pleasure of attending the International Consortium on Applied Bioeconomy Research (ICABR) Conference. This conference is the premiere conference on …