Is Our Animal Welfare Subpar?
A Look at Canada’s Welfare Scorecard Regardless of dietary preferences, I think it would be difficult to find someone willing to confess they wish animals …
Continuous Cropping and GM Crops Improve Soil Health
Innovations often completely transform systems of production. The invention of production lines transformed automobile manufacturing. The innovation of cellphones transformed people’s ability to communicate. Similarly, …
Canadian Agriculture: Struggling to Grow, or Struggling to be Recognized? (Part 3)
Part 3: Returns on Investment, Adoption Gaps, and the Road Ahead Picking up the Thread Parts 1 and 2 of this series established a productive …
The Launch of Another Academic Year
The shortening of daylight indicates that it is once again time for students to come to campus, some for the first time to start their …
A Review of the 2025-2026 SAIFood Year
It hardly seems like the end of another academic year has arrived. It has obviously been a busy one for all of us at SAIFood …
The Management of Business Risk Management
Spring 2026 started off slowly for seeding. Between last minute changes to crop plans and inconsistent weather conditions, nothing about 2026 is shaping up to …
Healthier Food Through Gene Editing
Innovations in agriculture focus on every facet of producing a crop, from developing hardier varieties to higher yields and better disease resistance to increased nutrition. …
Nutrition Hacks and the Protein Obsession
By 2050, we are expected to globally consume twice the protein we currently do. Through various blogs on SAIFood, we have been tracking the growing …
Canadian Agriculture: Struggling to Grow or Struggling to be Recognized (Part 2)
Part 2 This second post to the series on agricultural productivity in Canada dives into the financial realities facing farmers in Canada, where is all …
We Let our Horse Racing Industry Go
The Role of Economics in Canadian Track Closures It’s horse racing season. Rather, for Canadians, it should be. Despite being one of mankind’s oldest sports and contributing $8.7 billion annually to the economy, Canada is disappearing from the thoroughbred racing industry. The horse racing bioeconomy, regardless …