Canada’s seed rule modernization is finally seeing the end of the tunnel, but not everyone in agriculture is convinced about the changes or that the timeline is good enough.
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Five years and counting: Inside Canada’s seed regulatory overhaul
Canada’s seed rule modernization is finally seeing the end of the tunnel, but not everyone’s convinced about the changes or that the timeline is good enough, given agriculture’s quick-changing landscape
Meet the new yield-boosting wheat varieties being developed in Manitoba
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada Brandon is working on three new wheat varieties that beat out controls by up to 15 per cent on yield
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada Brandon is working on three new wheat varieties that beat out controls by up to 15 per cent on yield.
Made-in-Manitoba sunflower hybrid heads to market
Manitoba Crop Alliance lands U.S. co-operative CHS to commercialize the first confection sunflower variety to come out of their homegrown breeding program
Manitoba’s confection sunflower growers will have a new seed option next spring that was developed specifically for perform in the province. The pending commercialization of one of their hybrids is a milestone for the Manitoba Crop Alliance (MCA), the commodity group that represents the province’s sunflower growers. The organization has invested in its own sunflower
GMO market access issues remain concern for growers
The technology to genetically alter crops has never been more accessible, but managing the policy aspect has been, and will continue to be, complicated
One would think that three decades of no ill health effects from eating food made with GM crops would be considered long enough, but that’s the world in which we live.
Canadian Barley Research Coalition pledges $1.8 million to USask Crop Development Centre
A group of Prairie crop associations have pledged $1.8 million to continue barley variety development at the University of Saskatchewan’s Crop Development Centre.
Canadian wheat breeding review seeks value for farmer funds
The Canadian Wheat Research Coalition says they invest a lot on behalf of farmers; they want to make sure those funds are going to pack the most punch
The Canadian Wheat Research Coalition says they invest a lot on behalf of farmers; they want to make sure those funds are going to pack the most punch.
Maizex Seeds to launch hybrid canola varieties for Western Canada
The eastern Canadian seed company will expand west with two canola hybrids starting this fall
Maizex Seeds, an eastern Canadian seed company, will break into Western Canada with two canola hybrid varieties starting this fall.
New seed labels proposed for canola clubroot resistance
Farmers may soon see a canola variety’s clubroot resistance broken down by pathotype on a new, more detailed seed label
Westerns Canadian farmers may soon see a canola variety’s clubroot resistance broken down by pathotype on a new, more detailed seed label.
Gene editing up a better canola crop: FEATURE
Canola gene editing project taps maize genetics for a more robust, higher yielding plant
Gene editing techniques and maize genetic material may be the seed for more robust and stress tolerant canola plants. Canadian research is trying to make it happen.
Canadian wheat breeding produces big results
Canadian varietal development system for new wheat varieties called a success story
Canada’s system of developing wheat varieties with improved crop genetics is both efficient and effective, says a University of Saskatchewan agricultural economist.
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