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How Farmers Thrive in One of Canada's Toughest Growing Environments
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (532+ words) In most of Canadian agriculture, bigger is usually better. Bigger farms. Bigger yields. Bigger equipment. The Yukon doesn’t have that luxury. With growing seasons...little as 60 to 90 days and less than two per cent of the territory suitable for conventional…...
This Week in Seed: A Global Crisis, Rising Costs — and a Bigger Question No One Can Ignore
5+ mon, 2+ week ago (568+ words) I found myself going down a bit of a rabbit hole this week. It started with a pretty straightforward conversation about diesel prices. One of those “have you seen this?” kind of chats. And then it turned into something bigger…...
Who Funds Wheat Research in Canada? Increasingly, it’s Farmers
6+ mon, 1+ week ago (525+ words) How Your Stories Are Shared — Check it Out Now Over the past five years, farmers have invested more than...stake in innovation and their growing concern about the system’s stability. If the crisis has surprised some observers, it has not......
Career Change Story: From Restaurant Work to Seed Industry Client Services in Canada
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (554+ words) I like to think I started at the other end of the story. That was my first education. I went on to...what they needed. Making sure they felt taken care of. Agriculture, especially seed testing, was never part of…...
Ottawa is Finally Treating Soil as Strategic Infrastructure. Here's Why Seed Growers Should Care
1+ mon, 4+ week ago (581+ words) Canada’s seed sector has a rare opportunity to influence federal policy at a foundational level,...gaining momentum in Ottawa. Speaking virtually to the Canadian Seed Growers’ Association annual meeting...Whitehorse, Black said healthy soil has become one of the Senate’s…...
SUSTAINCrop to Measure Industrial Crop Footprints
4+ day, 2+ hour ago (483+ words) The initiative, called SUSTAINCrop, will develop and validate a digital assessment tool using...crop production data from Latin America and Europe. The goal is to help farmers, businesses and policymakers...for biomaterials and other industrial applications. The 36-month project is…...
How Canada Can Strengthen Plant Breeding Investment
1+ week, 4+ day ago (687+ words) One of the most important issues facing Canada’s seed industry today is the environment for investment in plant breeding. There...there are important discussions happening across the industry about what comes next. For Seeds Canada,...Canada, I believe our role…...
Seed Programs International Connects Smallholder Farmers to the Seed Sector
4+ mon, 4+ week ago (584+ words) Programs International connects smallholder farmers to the seed sector, turning donations and partnerships into measurable...under pressure, one organization is proving that the most powerful solutions can start small — with a...International (SPI) has spent more than 25 years working at the…...
Underutilised Crops Network to Boost UK Food Resilience
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (421+ words) The James Hutton Institute, Scotland’s interdisciplinary scientific research institute for the sustainable management of land, crop and nature resources, is playing a central...research and innovation network designed to strengthen the future of food production. The Novel and Underutilised Crop…...
Andalusia Offers Organic Farming Lessons for Europe
2+ mon, 4+ week ago (475+ words) A University of Córdoba study finds farmers’ decisions to adopt organic practices are shaped...shaped by both profitability and environmental values. The European Union has set a goal for at least 25% of agricultural land to be farmed using organic or…...