The Canola Council of Canada (CCC) has released a new seed cost feature for the Canola Calculator to help canola...
Science & Technology
Beyond Breeding: 2019 PGDC Update
The 2019 meeting of the Prairie Grain Development Committee saw breeders focus not just on how they do their work, but...
Download the APG App
Since November, Alberta pulse producers have been able to download a smartphone app that allows them to search data...
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...
Revolutionizing with CRISPR
There are plenty of buzzwords surrounding the seed industry in 2018 — GMOs, gene-editing, organic and, of course,...
Is Intercropping The Future?
Lethbridge-based Eric Bremer, head of R&D for Western Ag Innovations, has learned a thing or two about...
Flipping The Switch
For global researchers studying epigenetics, looking at the surface of the genome could be the key to discovering the...
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...
Food Processing Development Centre Grows Province’s Food And Beverage Industries
The production of primary commodities and value-added products is vital to Alberta. Ensuring Alberta producers are...
Becoming Seed Smart: The Most Important Thing You Can Do For Your Crop Is Check Your Seed’s Health
What’s the best thing you can do for your crops? Is it making sure they get enough water, sunlight and love? What...
Clubbing Clubroot: An Update On Breeding Clubroot-Resistant Canola
On the Prairies, clubroot appeared in Alberta in 2003, in Saskatchewan in 2008 and Manitoba in 2013. As any grower can...
Pioneering Work On Fusarium Head Blight In Rye
Unlike other cereal crops affected by Fusarium head blight (FHB), very little is known about FHB in fall rye from a...
Brave New World
The development and testing of the xarvio app holds lessons for seed growers and breeders, including the importance of...
Is Intercropping the Future?
The data is in: yield boosts, lowered disease and insect pressure are just some of many benefits of planting two or...
Superclusters and Accelerators Might Transform an Industry
Supercluster is one of the latest buzzwords beings bandied about in the ag media these days. A cluster, as defined by...