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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.
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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?

Canada

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

Canada

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

Canada

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

Canada

Why the World is Watching Canada’s Royalty Debate Closely

Canada

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

Canada

The Best Scientists Don’t Pretend to Know Everything. Kelly Turkington Built a Career Proving it

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

Canada

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

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

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

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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

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