By: Michael Babey, University of Saskatchewan student A Common Concern Growing up in a rural setting, I can count a handful of times when a crime had affected our area. Whether it was vehicles, fuel, or tools it is apparent…
By Evan Bronner, University of Saskatchewan Student New markets may be key to Canadian canola success By now, most have heard in the agriculture industry, about the trade dispute between China and Canada over Canadian canola. In March 2019 China…
2019 a harrowing ride on the ag & food rollercoaster While the screams elicited from those clutching their seats were not of terror or excitement, but rather of shouts of frustration or just heavy sighs of the bone-weary and exhausted,…
By Spencer Truscott, UofS Student I have grown up around grain farming all my life and there is nothing more disheartening than seeing your crop doing poorly and having no ability to change it. I am not talking about the…
Who holds the future of agriculture, farmers or the courts? What a summer! I’m not talking about a whirlwind vacation, a summer full of events or even this weather in which our forecasters have given up on science for accurate…
A classrooms look at how to innovate an entire ag commodity industry Canada has been called the ‘breadbasket of the world’, but those claims have diminished over time, as other crops like canola now account for the greatest number of…
By Robert Wager, Vancouver Island University I’ve had the great pleasure of being a faculty member of the Biology Department of Vancouver Island University for the past 23 years. My area of research is agricultural biotechnology with an emphasis on…
Originally posted October 11, 2017 VIEWFROMTHERANCHPORCH As a professor in the College of Agriculture and Bioresources at the University of Saskatchewan, there are two things that make my job one of the best in the world, sharing the results of…
How the Carbon Tax Will Affect Agriculture By MacKenzie Henn, University of Saskatchewan Student There is no doubt that environmental sustainability is a hot topic and there are always innovations and policies being created to improve the environmental sustainability of…
Feeding an additional 2-5 billion people over the coming 30 years is going to challenge every single aspect of agriculture and food production. While some early advocates of biotechnology and GM crops enthusiastically proclaimed that GM crops could feed the…
