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Get The Dirt On Soil In Alberta

Alberta Agriculture and Forestry website contains extremely useful tools for Albertans to use. One such tool is the Alberta Soil Information Viewer, which provides various levels of soil information to… Read More

7 Ways Seed-Applied Technologies are Evolving

From boosting yield to helping you look at what you’re trying to accomplish on the farm, these products hold a lot of promise for the future. Next-generation seed treatment technologies,… Read More

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Brevant High-Yielding Canola Seeds Deliver Disease Resistance

Diseases like clubroot and blackleg continue to put pressure on canola crops in western Canada, spreading across the Prairies. Experts advise farmers to include clubroot resistant canola hybrids in their… Read More

Herbicide Resistance – Coming To A Field Near You

Herbicide resistance in weeds is a growing problem affecting many commonly used products used in Alberta and around the world. Harry Brook, crop specialist at that the Alberta Ag-Info Centre,… Read More

Alberta Launches Three Canadian Agricultural Partnership Programs

Three programs under the Canadian Agricultural Partnership (the Partnership) have been launched and are now accepting applications. Science and Research theme programs Accelerating the Advancement of Agricultural Innovation and Adapting… Read More

The Scoop on Seed Synergy

An attempt to forge a next-generation seed system for Canada is gaining speed. Here’s what you need to know about what’s happening. Canada’s seed industry has come together under the… Read More

Revolutionizing with CRISPR

There are plenty of buzzwords surrounding the seed industry in 2018 — GMOs, gene-editing, organic and, of course, CRISPR. While we know a lot surrounding the debate of GMOs versus… Read More

“Pardon Me – Do You Have Any Grey Poupon?”

The first hybrid brown mustard and a whopping 61 other cultivars were put forward for registration at this year’s meeting of the Prairie Grain Development Committee. In some ways, this… Read More

Is Intercropping The Future?

Lethbridge-based Eric Bremer, head of R&D for Western Ag Innovations, has learned a thing or two about intercropping during his time researching the practice. “Intercropping can have substantial benefits, but… Read More

Flipping The Switch

For global researchers studying epigenetics, looking at the surface of the genome could be the key to discovering the next big thing in plant and seed engineering. Classical genetics has… Read More

Ramping Up Variety Development

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… Read More