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The Real Cost of Innovation Isn’t Always What We Spend
Canada

The Most Important Farmer in Canada Hasn’t Planted a Crop Yet

Canada

Why SeCan’s Next 50 Years Matter to Seed Retail

Canada

Ontario Seed Growers Look to Protect the Future of Plant Breeding

Canada

Farmers Are Taking the Lead on the Future of Canadian Wheat Breeding

Canada

Can Canada’s Seed Industry Afford to Tell Farmers the Truth?

Canada

A Faster Seed System Still Needs Trusted Data

Canada

Why Saskatchewan Seed Growers are Thinking Beyond Certified Seed

Canada

Better Genetics Are Running Into an Infrastructure Problem

Canada

The Most Important Innovation in Pulse Breeding May Be the Network

Canada

Alberta Seed Growers Push to Protect Variety Testing as Research Capacity Shrinks

Canada

What Could Slow the Next Great Seed Variety?

Canada

Can Gene Editing Give Seeds a Stronger Start?

Canada

Can Cabbage Genetics Help Breeders Develop Better Canola Hybrids?

Canada

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

Canada

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

Canada

7 Simple On-Farm Tests for Measuring Soil Health

Canada

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

Canada

The Slowest Part of Plant Breeding May No Longer Be Biology

Canada

How Drought is Changing Canola’s Battle With Verticillium Stripe

Zachary Jones podcast
U.S.

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

Canada

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

Canada

Why the “Plant Breeding Pipeline” is the Wrong Model for Canada

Canada

You Can Process More Lines. You Can’t Automate Better Ideas.

Curt Baldwin of Seeds Canada
Canada

Canada’s Next Crop Varieties Depend on What Happens Now: Curt Baldwin

Canada

Why the New Plant Breeder is Part Geneticist and Part Data Scientist

Canada

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

Yue Yu
Canada

Can Genomics Speed Up the Journey From Breeder to Farmer?

Canada

Is Canada’s Variety Registration System Slowing Seed Innovation?

Canada

The Future of Plant Breeding Could Begin Before the Field Trial

Canada

Innovation Gets the Headlines. Plant Breeding Capacity Makes It Possible

Canada

Flax Could Hold an Answer to Farming’s Fertilizer Problem

Europe

Global Soil Degradation Is Cutting Crop Yields

Researcher uses a pipette while studying Arabidopsis seeds in an NYU laboratory.
U.S.

Scientists Find the Switch That Tells Plants They Have Enough Nitrogen

Canada

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

Katy Martin Rainey discusses her priorities for workforce development and stronger plant breeding partnerships as incoming NAPB president.
Watch / Listen

NAPB President Wants to Strengthen Public-Private Partnerships

McGill University PhD candidate Neha Paserkar discusses climate change, white mold disease resistance and plant breeding on the Seed World Podcast.
Canada

Can Crops Keep Fighting White Mold in a Changing Climate?

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Canola Breeding Has Changed. So Has the Meaning of a Better Hybrid

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

GLOBAL NEWS

Scientists Target Photosynthesis Efficiency for Better Crops

Svalbard Seed Vault Prize to Protect At-Risk Collections

Can Washington Keep Up With the Seed Industry?

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