The dangers of AI are apparent, including biased algorithms, data privacy violations and the manipulation of human behaviour. It is also a technology that has the potential to solve many problems.

Comment: AI can be an agricultural solution

The technology can help farmers tackle the challenges of modern farming

For all the attention on flashy new artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT, the challenges of regulating AI and doomsday scenarios involving super-intelligent machines, AI is a useful tool in many fields. In fact, it has enormous potential to benefit humanity. In agriculture, farmers are increasingly using AI-powered tools to tackle challenges that threaten human health,

Canadians trust farmers, but lack of farm knowledge can open chinks in that armour.

Canadians trust farmers despite food costs – for now

Public Trust: How farmers have maintained, and could risk, public trust

Glacier FarmMedia – Rising food prices have been drawing the ire of the Canadian public, but the bulk of that frustration and anger is not directed at farmers. Not yet, at least. Why it matters: Lack of understanding about food production and the workings of food supply systems poses risks to the high levels of

Filiz Koksel speaks at the Food Technology and Research Day Nov. 1 at the Richardson Centre for Food Technology and Research in Winnipeg.

Pushing the envelope on food extrusion

U of M extrusion research aims to open new crop and byproduct markets

It’s a bit like a high-tech playdough machine. But instead of pliable, multi-coloured dough, the extruder at the University of Manitoba uses pulses or cereals as base ingredients. And instead of a string of dough forced through molds to create basic shapes, the result is value-added food products. Researchers hope their work will lead to


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Italy’s parliament approves ban on lab-grown food

The ban is seen as part of a broader bid to safeguard tradition

Italy's lower house of parliament gave final approval for a law banning the use of laboratory-produced food and animal feed on Thursday as angry farmers confronted a group of centrist lawmakers opposed to the bill.

A flooded field in St. Andrews, Manitoba. A new paper says Canada’s water policies, management and research efforts are under-developed and uncoordinated.

CAPI pitches national agri-food water strategy

Think tank says farmers have been let down by lack of a national plan

Glacier FarmMedia – Canada should use its enormous water resources to become a sustainable food powerhouse and a global water research superpower, says a new paper from the Canadian Agri-Food Policy Institute. The country’s water policies, management and research efforts are under-developed and uncoordinated, it said, which leaves water resources and challenges largely unaddressed. That’s something a national plan should fix, says the report written

Two farmers talking in a field.

Comment: Farmers the victims of food company decarbonization

Farmers are bearing the brunt of big food companies’ decarbonization efforts. Here’s why

More than a third of the global greenhouse gas emissions resulting from human activity can be attributed to how we produce, process and package food, so it comes as no surprise that many large food-producing and retailing companies are under pressure from investors, politicians and environmental groups to clean up their operations. Several leading fast-food


Machinery was one of the sectors to hit supply chain logjams during the pandemic.

Wanted: A long-term vision for the future of Canadian agriculture

Greater collaboration, consultation and issue ownership required to manage major disruption, says report

Glacier FarmMedia – What does Canada’s agriculture and food sector need to do to insulate itself from major disruptions? According to the latest Canadian Agri-Food Policy Institute (CAPI) report “A Toolbox for Managing Crises,” everyone linked to ag needs to stop working alone to extinguish fires and instead adopt a more dynamic approach to problem solving. In practice,

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Trudeau summons top grocers over rising food prices

Major grocers' level of profit 'does not make sense,' PM says

Ottawa | Reuters — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Thursday said he had summoned the country’s top grocers to help find solution to the surging food prices and vowed to cut federal taxes on new rental buildings, as he fights an affordability crisis that has dented his party’s opinion poll ratings. After meeting with Liberal