b'November 2025ContentsFEATURES I LEFT CONVINCED UKRAINE 04Part Distributor. PartWILL RISE STRONGER,Developer. All Canadian. REBUILDING ITS SOILS AND 08From Victoria to RECLAIMING ITS PLACE AS THE Washington, Seed Rules Shape Who Feeds theBREADBASKET OF THE WORLD. World Kevin Elmy / 33 12How a Global Crisis Changed Seed Production Forever16 The Game Has Changed.So Now What?18Inside the New Food- Minded Breeding Economy30Canadas Era of Precarity36 Speed of SeedPERSPECTIVES34 CSGA38Seeds Canada44Think Variety RegistrationSlows Innovation?Think AgainDEPARTMENTS33Cover Crop Corner40 Retail Strategy46 The Headlines48 Giant ViewsSPECIAL SECTIONS22INSIDERS242026 New VarietiesON THE COVER: Matt Hooyer is SeCans product development lead in the East. Private sector breeding is powerful but often focused on different priorities than in the public sector, he says in our feature on page 4. Photo by Jesse Gibb/sohostudios.caNOVEMBER 2025SEEDWORLD.COM/CANADA 1'