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Advancing Better Canola: Before Canola Can Thrive, it Must Survive

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AI and Sales: Why Garbage in Still Means Garbage Out

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The Best Partnerships Don’t Sell Machines. They Build Better Ones

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How One Seed Plant Upgrade Improved Flax Cleaning — and Much More

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The Best Way to Use AI? Think Like a Golfer, Not a Robot

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What Could Slow the Next Great Seed Variety?
From variety trials to seed increase, four industry leaders identify the weak points between a breeding breakthrough and the farm gate...
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The Next Great Crop May Begin as an Uncertain Bet

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Can Gene Editing Give Seeds a Stronger Start?

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What Got Us Here Won’t Get Us There | On The Brink: Season 3, Episode 3

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How Saskatchewan Can Grow Canada’s Bioeconomy

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Can Cabbage Genetics Help Breeders Develop Better Canola Hybrids?

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A Farmer’s Most Important Assets Don’t Appear on a Yield Map

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The Farm Gate is Sending Canada’s Seed Sector a Message

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The Slowest Part of Plant Breeding May No Longer Be Biology

BUSINESS
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The Case for One Digital Platform for Seed Retailers and Farmers

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Could Research Cuts Push Canada’s Young Plant Breeders Elsewhere?

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A Big Lesson from NAPB ’26: Technology Isn’t Enough

SUSTAINABILITY
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Ottawa is Finally Treating Soil as Strategic Infrastructure. Here’s Why Seed Growers Should Care

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How Cover Crops Can Improve Seed Quality and Create New Opportunities for Seed Growers

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How Farmers Thrive in One of Canada’s Toughest Growing Environments

RESEARCH
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7 Simple On-Farm Tests for Measuring Soil Health

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How Drought is Changing Canola’s Battle With Verticillium Stripe

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OP-ED: Why Canada’s Plant Breeding Advantage is No Longer Guaranteed

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Wheat Pete Peter Johnson speaking in On The Brink Season 3 Episode 2.
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What Got Us Here Won’t Get Us There | On The Brink: Season 3, Episode 2

Wheat Pete (Peter Johnson) explores the potential of wheat breeding, the lessons growers can learn through Great Lakes YEN, and...
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Designed To Thrive | Welcome To On The Brink: Season 3

Canadian plant breeding is at a tipping point. Shawn Brook says it is time to move from possibility to action....
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You Can Process More Lines. You Can’t Automate Better Ideas.

Technology lets breeders evaluate tens of thousands of candidates, but Brian Rossnagel says efficiency cannot replace scientific talent and competing...
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Can Genomics Speed Up the Journey From Breeder to Farmer?

Genomic prediction can help identify promising plants before breeders spend years evaluating them. But there’s a catch: breeding faster doesn’t...
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