Insights and Stories on Breeding

At Ag in Motion: Soybean proponents still eye western expansion

Jul. 19, 2023 at 4:24 pm CDT

While canola is king of the Canadian oilseed market, the same can be said of soybeans in the United States. However, the big pulse crop south of the border has made inroads in the western provinces. Manitoba has seen the biggest growth in soybean acres with well over a million […]

B.C. calling halt to mink farming

Nov. 10, 2021 at 5:01 am CST

By Dave Bedard

Regulations on gene-edited crops to be eased in England

Sep. 28, 2021 at 7:18 pm CDT

By Reuters

Don’t count chickens before they hatch: Tyson bet on wrong rooster

May. 10, 2021 at 5:26 pm CDT

By Tom Polansek

France backs non-GMO regulation for crop gene-editing in EU

Jan. 18, 2021 at 3:09 pm CST

By Reuters

Watch for testicular degeneration in bulls

Mar. 23, 2018 at 2:39 pm CDT

One of the most frustrating conditions to hit our herd sires is testicular degeneration (testicles shrinking up). It often strikes without warning or reason. It causes headaches for both purebred breeders with bulls they have sold and for insurance companies with bulls they have insured. In this article I will […]

By Roy Lewis

Barley’s genome now two-thirds sequenced

Aug. 26, 2015 at 7:55 pm CDT

A team led by scientists at the University of California, Riverside says it has reached a new milestone in its work on sequencing the barley genome. In a release Tuesday, the researchers said they have sequenced large portions of the genome that together contain nearly two-thirds of all barley genes. Because […]

By Staff