Insights and Stories on Genetics

Data sharing next big step for beef genetics

Dec. 20, 2024 at 10:13 am CST

Glacier FarmMedia – Data access is vital to success in most businesses these days, and that includes cattle genetics, according to panel members at the Canadian Beef Industry Conference in Saskatoon in August. “I believe genetics can be the motivator that drives success in the beef industry in the next […]

Organics continue battle with gene editing

Nov. 22, 2024 at 10:04 am CST

By Janelle Rudolph

EU governments fail to agree on gene-editing rules despite patent exception

Jun. 26, 2024 at 4:58 pm CDT

By Reuters

Funding to help make cattle data gathering easier

Jun. 19, 2024 at 3:01 pm CDT

By John Greig

At Ag in Motion: Soybean proponents still eye western expansion

Jul. 19, 2023 at 4:24 pm CDT

By Alex McCuaig

Gene-edited crops clear CFIA’s regulatory bar

May. 3, 2023 at 7:01 pm CDT

Plants gene-edited for efficient use of water or nutrients or to better withstand pests or drought now won’t have to clear the same regulatory hurdles in Canada as any crops that are modified for herbicide tolerance or include foreign genes. Federal Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau on Wednesday announced updated guidance […]

By Dave Bedard

India unveils new rice variety to reduce water use, labour

Sep. 28, 2021 at 5:40 pm CDT

New Delhi | Reuters — India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday launched an array of new high-yielding crop varieties, including herbicide-tolerant rice that can be directly sown into the soil, cutting expenditure on water and farm workers. In India, the world’s biggest rice exporter, the conventional method of rice […]

By Mayank Bhardwaj

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

May. 10, 2021 at 5:26 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Tyson Foods is laying off a certain type of rooster from its U.S. chicken business after a surprising discovery that eggs fertilized by the male bird hatch less often, resulting in fewer chickens. The world’s largest meat producer by sales will install a replacement across its […]

By Tom Polansek

Beware of Kazakhs wanting to buy seed, agency says

Nov. 25, 2020 at 3:38 pm CST

Western Canadian seed growers, seed retailers and commercial farmers are being urged not to sell seed to Kazakhs or their agents because it breaches plant breeders’ rights rules. “The basic fact is no Canadian breeder has given permission for their genetics to go to Kazakhstan,” Lorne Hadley, executive director of […]

By Allan Dawson

Farmer and activist Percy Schmeiser, 89

Oct. 15, 2020 at 6:38 pm CDT

Funeral services are to be held and livestreamed Saturday for Prairie farmer, businessman and activist Percy Schmeiser, best known for his ultimately unsuccessful court battles with the company behind Roundup Ready canola. Schmeiser, who farmed at Bruno, Sask., about 90 km east of Saskatoon, died Tuesday at age 89. According […]