Canada’s Competition Bureau has conditionally approved Bayer’s planned takeover of Monsanto. Its approval is contingent on Bayer AG divesting some of its Canadian canola, soybean and vegetable seed, traits and herbicide assets before it will allow the German...
The goal of Plant Breeders’ Rights (PBR) is to encourage investment in plant breeding in Canada. Yet there is a misconception that PBR only benefits large companies. The fact is, large companies often have other tools to protect their intellectual property,...
To quote fictional anchorman Ron Burgundy, what Tom Steve is currently working on is — in wheat circles — kind of a big deal. If it comes to fruition, it could serve to rock the very foundations of western Canadian agriculture and change the way farmers think about...
One of the most time-consuming parts of the crop breeding process is the time needed to grow successive generations of plants. What if we could really speed that up? That’s the goal of a project at the National Research Council of Canada (NRC). The accelerated growth...
The Alberta Pulse Growers Commission (APG) recently became a member of Soy Canada to reflect the increased interest Alberta producers have in growing soybeans. According to APG chair D’Arcy Hilgartner, APG has been observing on the sideline the development and...