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The Fertilizer Squeeze Could Change the Seed Industry for Years
4+ week, 1+ day ago (967+ words) conflicts continue to disrupt global fertilizer markets. Seed World Columnist Shawn Hackett explores how prolonged volatility could reshape seed demand, production planning and breeding priorities...further and fueled prolonged price volatility. For seed companies, fertilizer volatility influences much...Higher input…...
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,...Robert Black, who last week in Whitehorse urged seed growers to help shape a national soil strategy already...momentum in Ottawa. Speaking virtually to the…...
How AI is Changing Certified Seed Operations
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (883+ words) When most people in the seed industry hear artificial intelligence, they think about breeding...discovery. Rachael Sharp is using AI in certified seed operations to decide where to haul a load of soybeans....decisions about logistics, recordkeeping and certified seed…...
Unlock Hemp's Potential? Meet One of Canada's Rising Plant Breeders - Seed World
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (378+ words) dramatically speed up the breeding process. In the latest Seed World Canada Podcast episode, Fetterley shares how...
Rice Breeding is Becoming a Game of Tradoffs
2+ mon, 6+ day ago (784+ words) resource while minimizing environmental impacts. For seed organizations, that evolution could reshape how...
Public Plant Breeders Need More Than Funding; They Need Support
4+ week, 2+ day ago (308+ words) Public plant breeders are often focused on the immediate work in front of them: improving crops, mentoring students, teaching classes and managing breeding programs with limited resources. She says they don’t always have time to step back and assess the…...
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...
Eastern Canada Plant Breeding Needs Investment
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (241+ words) not perform. We need your help to grow and evolve this conversation! Follow Seed World Canada...
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 role in a new UK-wide research and innovation network designed to strengthen the future of food production....
How Farmers Thrive in One of Canada's Toughest Growing Environments
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (532+ words) Cain Vangal told delegates attending the Canadian Seed Growers’ Association annual meeting in Whitehorse...important as climate variability forces breeders and seed developers to think differently about adaptation....alternatives. Others rely on cold-tolerant genetics, careful seed selection and maturity timing…...