Insights and Stories on Research

Crop Production Show 2025: Spray drone research continues

Jan. 16, 2025 at 4:04 pm CST

While the use of spray drones for chemical application is still illegal in Canada, research on how to use them efficiently and effectively is ongoing.

A close-up of a row of pea seedlings in a garden

COMMENT: Fertile land for growing vegetables is at risk — but a scientific discovery could turn the tide

Jan. 14, 2025 at 10:04 am CST

By The Conversation via Reuters Connect

Saskatchewan Pulse Growers invest in weed research

Dec. 11, 2024 at 3:22 pm CST

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Raboresearch delivers fall agricultural outlook

Nov. 15, 2024 at 2:46 pm CST

By Adam Peleshaty

Feds, producer groups launch wheat research cluster

Mar. 6, 2024 at 4:37 pm CST

By Geralyn Wichers

National hog research firm gets $10.6 million in federal funds

Feb. 20, 2024 at 10:31 am CST

The federal government has pledged up to $10.6 million for hog sector research, it said in an announcement today.

By Geralyn Wichers

Canada pledges funds for efficient fertilizer research

Jan. 31, 2024 at 11:22 am CST

Canada will join the U.S., U.K., and others in a group dedicated to advancing efficient and novel fertilizers, the federal government announced today.

By Geralyn Wichers

Hepworth honoured for agricultural achievements

Jan. 2, 2024 at 12:08 pm CST

Lorne Hepworth, former Saskatchewan agriculture minister and current chair of the Agriculture Research Institute of Ontario, has been named a member of the Order of Canada.

By Karen Briere

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

China must raise self-reliance in ag tech, Xi says

Dec. 27, 2022 at 12:15 am CST

Beijing | Reuters — President Xi Jinping wants China to accelerate efforts to achieve self-reliance in agricultural technology, identifying seed development and core equipment among areas to focus on, state media reported. The central leadership had said in 2020 that the country’s seed industry was a weak link in the […]

By Reuters

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