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Faster Plant Breeding Puts Canada’s Seed System to the Test
Canada

Is Canada’s Variety Registration System Slowing Seed Innovation?

Karen Withers, founder of AgCultured Consulting, with a maze representing complex seed labeling regulations.
U.S.

Inside The Hidden Bottleneck Slowing Seed Shipments Across America

Canada

Canada’s Plant Breeding Future Depends on People, Not Just Funding

Tractor applying fertilizer to agricultural soil
U.S.

The Fertilizer Squeeze Could Change the Seed Industry for Years

Canada

Why CSGA’s New President Says Now is the Time to Get Involved

Canada

Why Plant Breeding, Leadership and Seed Policy Matter Together

Canada

No Agenda, Just Listening: Glenn Logan Reflects on Leading the Canadian Seed Growers’ Association

Canada

The Seed Sector Doesn’t Need More Ideas. It Needs Fewer Friction Points

Canada

One Login, Many Benefits: Rethinking Seed Industry Administration

Canada

Brent Collins Reflects on His Time as Seeds Canada President

Canada

Better Pulses Need Better Data. Two Announcements Show How Canada’s Breeding Model Is Changing

This week's biggest seed industry stories all point to the same conclusion: innovation alone isn't enough.
Canada

The Seed Sector Has a Connection Problem, Not an Innovation Problem

Katy Martin Rainey discusses her priorities for workforce development and stronger plant breeding partnerships as incoming NAPB president.
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NAPB President Wants to Strengthen Public-Private Partnerships

Canada

The Amazon Moment for Seed Retail: Register For Our July 27 Webinar

Canada

Why We Can’t Let Canada’s Seed Sector Become a Museum Piece

Canada

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

Canada

CSGA Announces its New Executive Director, and it’s Not Someone From the Seed Sector

Canada

What Decades of Service Look Like: Meet the 4 Leaders Honoured by CSGA

Canada

Why the World is Watching Canada’s Royalty Debate Closely

Canada

One Helped Build Seeds Canada. The Other Took the Seed Sector to Parliament

Canada

Why the Next Battle for Plant Breeding Won’t Be in the Field — It’ll Be in Ottawa

Canada

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

Canada

Whitehorse Reminds Us That Building Beats Striking it Rich

Canada

From Crop Genetics to World Cup Turf, Why Plant Breeding Needs a Bigger Stage

Canada

The Scholarship Winner Helping Rewrite the Future of Crop Genetics

Canada

A Lifetime in Plant Breeding: Dr. Weikai Yan Honoured for Four Decades of Scientific Leadership

Canada

The Common Thread Running Through This Week’s Biggest Seed Industry Stories

Canada

Canada is Shifting Toward Innovation, But More Work Remains on Seed and IP Policy

Canada

What’s Next for Global Seed Testing? Three Conversations Shaping ISTA 2026

Canada

Award-Winning Plant Breeder Weikai Yan Says AI Won’t Replace Human Breeders

Tom Warkentin is the breeder behind CDC Meadow.
Canada

CDC Meadow Nearly Got Thrown Out. Instead, It Became Canada’s 2026 Seed of the Year

Europe

Why the Seed Sector Is Raising the Bar on Social Rights 

Canada

How CDC Meadow Became One of Canada’s Most Successful Yellow Pea Varieties

Canada

What Honeybees Can Teach Us About Leadership, Adaptability, and Working Together

Canada

ISTA 2026: Seed Testing’s Biggest Annual Event is Heading to Calgary

Canada

Can Canada Talk Food Security While Cutting Agricultural Research?

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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

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

GLOBAL NEWS

One Rye Chromosome Has Already Changed Wheat. What Else Is Hiding There?

Borlaug Scholar Karlee Klemm discusses the next generation of plant breeders and the future of the profession.

The Next Generation of Plant Breeders Is Here

Three Degrees Warmer, Three Times the Wheat Price?

Plant Varieties, A Heritage to be Protected

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