Superweeds: The Canadian Prairie Experience with Herbicide Resistant Weeds
Unwanted weeds within farmers’ fields is not a new problem, but it is still one of the greatest challenges farmers face on a yearly basis. …
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Sugar Roots: Canada’s Sweet Sector
Happy Halloween! In a few short hours, Canadian streets will have more candy and chocolate than we know what to do with. While at Halloween …
2024 Harvest Wrap-up!
After another long crop season in the fields, most Saskatchewan farmers are wrapping up harvest for 2024, if they haven’t already. This year brought with …
Marginal Land: Are Livestock Even Necessary to Meet Global Food Security?
Agriculture Myth Busting There currently exists a global land competition problem. In the current trajectory, North American agricultural productivity will be facing very real …
Canada Confirms Gene Editing Technologies are Conventional Plant Breeding
After months of anticipation, on May 3rd, 2023, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) publicly confirmed that plant varieties developed by advanced mutagenic gene editing technologies …
Health Canada Provides Risk Appropriate Regulation to Genome Edited Foods
Genome-edited crops and foods are no different from other products The importance of, and reliance upon, evidence-based regulations was reaffirmed last week in Canada! It …
Health Canada’s New Guidelines on Gene-Edited Crops
Kaylee Dodds University of Saskatchewan Student Guest Blogger A year ago, on March 23, 2021, Health Canada proposed new guidelines for the regulation of gene-edited …
Improvements Needed in AgriStability Program
By: Parker Sturby, University of Saskatchewan student What is AgriStability? The Canadian government introduced AgriStability in 2007 to give producers an optional insurance plan to …
Returning to work this fall from our couches
This fall most of us are returning to work and school but from the comforts of our homes. Campus life looks very different this fall …
New Crop Varieties: The Journey from Lab to Field – Seed Disposal
This is the eighth of a series of #LabToField blogs that will explain the yearly cycle of variety development. Click here to read Part 1: …