Innovation Adoption Lags in Agriculture
Every innovative product of technology that is commercialized eventually reaches what is known as “full adoption”. This is the point at which the peak percentage …
Technology
Are You Catching My… Drift…?
The losses associated with the rise in chemical spray drift in agricultural landscapes By: Royce Moellenbeck University of Saskatchewan student The Cause of …
Can Variable Rate Fertilizer Contribute to GHG Goals?
By Theo Sekulic University of Saskatchewan student The adoption of variable rate fertilizer (VRF) application has become an area of debate for farmers across …
A Supply Chain on Autopilot: The Drivers Behind Agricultural Automation
Help Wanted Recent advancements in artificial intelligence have spawned much concern surrounding the stability of labour demand as robots begin to replace human jobs. Simultaneously, …
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 …
Regulatory Barriers on Drone Use are Impacting GHG Emissions
Harmony of policy across borders The harmonization of regulations between neighbouring countries makes everything easier. It is vital to ensure that identical products and technologies …
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 …
From Plant Breeding to Fork: AI’s Proven and Potential Contributions to the Ag Sector
From all over Canada experts convened in Saskatoon recently to discuss ‘Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Robotics in Agri-Food’ at the 2019 Agri-food Innovation Council (AIC) …
Understanding the Implications of Plant Digital Sequence Information
This blog is based on the ‘Governance of Digital Sequence Information and Impacts for Access and Benefit Sharing’ technical report which you can find here. …
How Long is Something Novel?
Exploring when regulatory oversight is no longer required In Canada, new plant varieties are regulated based on the final product, not the process used to …