Insights and Stories on Crop Research

Cold plasma shows promise as seed treatment

Mar. 10, 2025 at 4:28 pm CDT

A University of Arkansas study showed cold plasma shows promise as a seed treatment against fall armyworm and promoted rice plant development.

Handful of arable soil in hands of responsible farmer, close up, selective focus

Crop Production Show 2025: Ag research sector has productivity problem: panellists

Jan. 15, 2025 at 10:49 am CST

By Delaney Seiferling

Government funds soybean climate-change resistance research

Jul. 31, 2024 at 4:35 pm CDT

By Diana Martin

Feds, producer groups launch wheat research cluster

Mar. 6, 2024 at 4:37 pm CST

By Geralyn Wichers

Funding gets results for east-central Alberta research org

Feb. 13, 2024 at 11:23 am CST

By Jeff Melchior

People visit crop plots at Discovery Farm Woodstock

Discovery Farm Woodstock joins Pan-Canadian Smart Farm Network

Aug. 8, 2023 at 9:14 am CDT

Glacier FarmMedia’s eastern Discovery Farm has joined the locations that share data and research through Old’s College’s Pan-Canadian Smart Farm Network. The 330-acre Ontario site is the host of various demonstration research projects and Canada’s Outdoor Farm Show. It was established as the permanent home for the show in 2020. […]

By Glacier FarmMedia

Artist rendering of the Prairie Crops and Soils and Crops Research Facility.

Feds, Manitoba pledge $6.4M to ag research facility

Jul. 26, 2023 at 9:46 am CDT

The Federal and Manitoba governments have thrown their weight behind development of a facility touted to become Canada’s pre-eminent resource for field crop research. “A great deal of our agriculture industry’s success comes from research and skill development,” said federal ag minister Marie-Claude Bibeau in a news release, Tuesday. Bibeau […]

By Glacier FarmMedia staff