Celebrating Canada’s Agriculture Day Today marks Canada’s Agriculture Day, a day we are proud to be celebrating, as we think agriculture is the best sector in Canada. What better way to celebrate than to share with you one face of…
The uncertainties of digital sequence information and access and benefits sharing While science and business have many things in common, one of the most important is certainty. In science, consistent results are imperative, and consistent results establish certainty. In business,…
By: Deanna Bysterveld, University of Saskatchewan student Recent years have shown an increase in the consumer demand for a greater public knowledge of the safety and quality of Canadian agricultural products (Hobbs, Bailey, Dickinson, & Haghiri, 2005). Consumers want to…
Biofuels are liquid fuels made from biomass (plant or animal organic materials) and used primarily in transportation, which is almost entirely dependent on fossil fuels. The difference between biofuels and fossil fuels is that biofuels are made directly from living…
European regulation has driven innovation away for 20 years In 2003, the European Union (EU) revised its functioning risk assessment system for GM crops. Dating back to the mid-1990s, EU Member States had competently managed their own GM crop field…
Brazil has been the world’s largest producer of sugarcane since 1980 when production and area harvest surpassed India’s (Figure 1). By 2030, sugarcane production in Brazil could expand by more than 5 million hectares (12,355,200 acres) to meet the growing…
By: Danelle Clavelle, University of Saskatchewan student As urbanization rises, it is becoming increasingly important that we are reducing our environmental impact and finding ways for our population and cities to become more sustainable. Urbanization is responsible for creating vast…
By Oliver Xuan, University of Saskatchewan Student 2020 has been a relatively more challenging year for every individual around the world. However, especially for Canada’s meat industry, maybe it is already winter in early May. Cargill plant and the JBS…
The future of canola is more than just seed, oil, & meal Across the prairies, fields of golden yellow flowers bloom throughout July. This eye-catching crop, canola, is grown in most Western Canadian crop rotations. The roughly 20 million tonnes…
2020 is in the books! Hopefully, 2021 is a redo & not a repeat year Thank you to all our readers this year for making the time for our weekly posts. It has been a whirlwind of a year full…
