Do the views between Bachelors of Science and non-science oriented students differ? For the past few years, I’ve been fortunate to supervise a number of students working on their undergraduate thesis in the College of Agriculture at the University of Read more…
By Carrie Rode, University of Saskatchewan Student Change of views With the push to become more sustainable, society has brought forward the issue of single-use plastics. Single-use plastics are items that are used only once and then are discarded; they Read more…
As an essential service, this spring farmers enter a season of more uncertainties than normal In the last few weeks, the Covid-19 crisis has impacted every segment of Canada’s economy. A month ago, on March 25, the Government of Saskatchewan Read more…
In times of uncertainty, we need to be certain about barrier-free trade What is happening in the world? I am not talking about the pandemic, I am asking, what is happening in the world that we see importers placing trade Read more…
As the trend towards urbanization continues, the Canadian agriculture industry faces increasing concerns about the disconnect between consumers and food production. In 2016, only 19% of Canadians lived in rural communities, dropping from 46% over the past one hundred years. Read more…
Are GM Crops Contributing to Increased Rates of Female Education? The number one item on the United Nations’ (UN) list of Sustainable Development Goals is to reduce poverty. The UN estimates that 650 million people live in extreme poverty, surviving Read more…
The challenging dilemma between genomic sequencing and traditional knowledge Historically, to develop a new plant variety, there needed to be two distinct varieties to be able to cross-pollinate. If one variety was higher yielding and the other had strong disease Read more…
By Brock Thomson University of Saskatchewan Student New markets may be key to Canadian canola success Plant-based protein is a growing trend in the food market. Many consumers are swapping out traditional meat for a plant alternative, in which protein Read more…
Are Canadian plant breeders utilizing the innovations of gene editing? It would be inaccurate to say that plant breeders in Canada are ‘a dime a dozen’. A rough estimate places the number of professional plant breeders in Canada at 500. Read more…
The dawning of a new era in ag sustainability Who would have fathomed how significant a day in March 1995 would become in the history of Canadian agriculture? On March 14th, 1995, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) approved the Read more…