It has been a year since the Government of Ontario implemented regulations on the use of corn and sobyean seed treated with Neonicotinoid insecticides. How has industry responded? What has been the impact of the regulations on pollinators and …
Plant breeders have an exciting new tool at their disposal called gene editing. It’s not new anymore, having been around at least five years. It’s really just a suite of technologies that allows us to modify a gene in a desired fashion. We hear a…
It entered into Canada with the earliest of settlers, was carefully tended and saved, and it was the preface of the seed trade. While It has experienced many changes, the forage seed trade is still a thriving and vital part of Canadian agriculture. O…
The 68th United Nations General Assembly declared 2016 the International Year of Pulses. The idea of using pulses to increase food security, as well as improve crop rotations and soil fertility is not lost on the Canadian seed industry. Pulses are an…
Improvements in technology and equipment are happening all the time in the seed sector. Innovations in seeders and sorters are driving the industry forward. Every so often, technological innovations come along that have the potential to revolutioniz…
Experts provide their assessment of regulations on insecticide treated seed. July marked the first full year of operation under Ontario regulations on insecticide treated seed. The regulations, implemented in July 2015 for the 2016 planting season, w…
Disruptive technologies are emerging everywhere, even in agriculture. These changes are often exciting for many producers, albeit a little scary for some. A potentially disruptive development, recently announced by the International Wheat Genome Sequ…
Why a method of asexual seed production called apomixis could be a key to feeding the world. Many consider it one of the most important questions facing the world today: How to feed the nine billion people expected to populate the planet by 2050? An…
In the new post-patent environment, farmers and seedsmen are learning there’s more than meets the eye. In 2011, Monsanto’s patent on the first generation Roundup Ready trait in soybeans expired. When this happened, no one was sure what the marke…
As technology has integrated into every aspect of our day-to-day lives, seed and crop input companies work to keep pace. Need help determining your optimum planting rate? Or want to know if there’s a beehive nearby? There’s an app for that. One …
