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University of Guelph soybean breeder Istvan Rajcan beside an open padlock and emerging soybean plant representing freedom to operate
The Varieties Fade; The Impact Doesn’t
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

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

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

Climate Change is Rewriting the Rules of Disease Resistance. Neha Paserkar Wants Plant Breeders Ready

Canada

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

Canada

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

Canada

CSGA’s New President Wants Canada’s Seed Sector to Listen Better. Here’s Why It Matters

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

Can AI Unlock Hemp’s Potential? Meet One of Canada’s Rising Plant Breeders

Canada

Young Plant Breeder Wins CPBI Scholarship for AI-Powered Hemp Research

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

Seed World graphic showing World Cup pitch preparation with turf, soccer ball and experts Stacy Bonos and Matthew Duncan
U.S.

From Seed to Stadium: In Pursuit of the Perfect World Cup Pitch

Canada

At 25, Anirup Sengupta is Already Thinking Decades Ahead for Agriculture

Edwini Kessie, director of the Agriculture and Commodities Division at the World Trade Organization, discusses global agricultural innovation, trade fragmentation and the future of the seed sector.
U.S.

Why the Seed Industry Has a Stake in the Future of Global Trade

Europe

Young Professionals and Influence in the Seed Sector

Attendees of the 2026 National Association of Plant Breeders annual meeting gather for a group photo at Texas A&M University.
U.S.

Nutrition Emerged as a Big Theme at NAPB 2026

Canada

Brian Rossnagel Inducted Into Canadian Agricultural Hall of Fame for Transforming Barley and Oat Breeding

Canada

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

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

Farm family standing in a wheat field at sunset representing the future of seed industry innovation
U.S.

Who Is the Seed Industry Innovating For?

Canada

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

Canada

Why The Best Solutions Aren’t Built for Everywhere

Combine harvesting a mature KWS hybrid rye field during grain harvest in Canada.
U.S.

Heritage Driving What Comes Next For Hybrid Rye

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

Executive leadership strategy webinar featuring Stephanie Liska, Aaron Locker, Shawn Brook and Jon Leafstedt discussing leadership development and succession planning.
U.S.

Executive Leadership Strategy: How to Attract, Develop and Retain High-Performance Leaders

Canada

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

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

What Seed Processors Should Look for Beyond Equipment Specs

The Benefits of Upgrading Seed Processing Screening Equipment

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Strategy Creates Momentum. Planning Creates Motion.

GLOBAL NEWS
Rapeseed field with cover crop and catch crop: Alexandrian clover, common vetch, and white clover.

Seed Sector 2045: Cover Crops Offer Regenerative Opportunity for Seed

Olive trees infected by the dreaded bacteria called Xylella fastidiosa, is known in Europe as the ebola of the olive tree, Jaen, Andalucia, Spain

Xylella Research Advances Disease Control

Global Soil Degradation Is Cutting Crop Yields

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Limagrain Licenses Genome-Editing Technologies From Qi Biodesign

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