Seed Testing

During harvest 2021, many of us were worried about seed quality. Make no mistake, the Prairie drought did affect seed in...

This fall we are seeing less seed-borne disease in samples received by 20/20 Seed Labs in Nisku, Alta. Since August 2021,...

Fact: the most important part of seed testing happens before the seed is tested. Every seed test begins with a seed sample,...

My R&D team at 20/20 Seed Labs Inc. has been working on and off for the past eight years to develop a usable, working DNA-based test for soybean cyst nematode (SCN).

We’ve seen two phenomena play out in 2021 as far as weather goes: inadequate precipitation causing drought and extended...

A couple of months ago I wrote about the Spornado, a passive spore catcher first successfully deployed by potato growers in Ontario to detect late blight spores.

At the end of the month, our students will be finished their time at the school we set up in our Nisku, Alta., headquarters at the start of the pandemic.

A Spornado system in a field. The Spornado catches spores in the air which can then be tested for traces of fusarium....

Photo: 20/20 Seed Labs It’s been nearly a year since Alberta changed its regulations regarding Fusarium...