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

Think Variety Registration Slows Innovation? Think Again, Say 3 Breeding Legends

Canada

43% of Crops Trace Back to One Facility in Saskatoon

Researcher Jan Slaski with hemp plants
Canada

Seed Certification is Ripe for Disruption — and Jan Slaski is Leading the Charge

Canada

A New Era for Peas, Lentils, and Faba Beans? FP Genetics and J4 Agri-Science Think So

Canada

What Happens When the Genes we Need Don’t Want to be Used?

Canada

Could Canada’s Canola 2.0 be Here?

Canada

Asia and Africa Grow the Most Peppers. So Why Are Their Yields the Lowest?

Canada

Quebec Scientists Just Found the Microbial Playbook Behind Global Crop Failures

Canada

One Gene Promised the Perfect Strawberry. But it Didn’t Pass the Smoothie Test

Canada

He Wrestled His Way Into History — She’s Helping Students Finish What He Started

Canada

Forget Fitting In. This Bayer Scientist Says Be Yourself

Canada

The Lab Growing Summer Fruit All Year — with Zero Soil

Canada

Overlooked Mutations are Why Your Hybrid Isn’t Performing

Canada

A Wikipedia for Seeds? How ISMA is Crowdsourcing Global Expertise

Europe

Why Facts Must Prevail Over Political Convenience

Canada

Miller: Public Breeding is a National Treasure That’s Being Neglected

Canada

One Woman. One Mission. And a Movement That’s Rewriting Africa’s Future

Sorghum Could Help Feed the World — if we Can Unlock its Genetic Code

Canada

The New Curriculum That’s Rewiring the Minds of Tomorrow’s Top Plant Breeders

Canada

Laboratory? A Big Seed Treatment Innovation Came from a Winnipeg Garage

Canada

Ontario Researchers Join Push to Engineer “Super Crops” That Can Survive Anything

Canada

These Tiny Seeds are About to Upend a $100 Billion Industry

Canada

Inside the Tech That’s Giving Small Programs Big-League Breeding Tools

Canada

GMO? Idk. This Apple Just Tastes Better

U.S.

Meet the Woman Tackling the Hidden Gender Gap in Global Food Systems

U.S.

Bayer’s Natalie Kaiser is Rewriting the Rules of What Food is

Canada

A Guelph Researcher was Just Named Among the NAPB’s 2025 Plant Breeding Rockstars

U.S.

Lane Selman’s Secret Recipe for Better Seeds: Breeders, Chefs, and a Whole Lot of Flavor

U.S.

She Showed up and Found Her Dream Career—Now Neha Kothari is Paying it Forward

U.S.

Can a Plant Tell You When it’s Thirsty? Michael Gore Says Yes

U.S.

Scientists Dismissed his Desert Farming. Now They’re Studying it

Canada

Is Our Modern Food System Forgetting the Meaning of a Meal?

U.S.

Juan Arbelaez is Helping Build the Platform That Could Save Public Breeding

U.S.

How One Scientist is Fighting Tomato Disease With Culture, Music and Memory

Canada

‘Supergenes’ Could be the Future of Farming — if we Learn How to Use Them

U.S.

Germplasm isn’t Enough. You Need Paperwork, Partnerships and Infrastructure, says NAPB Award Winner Rex Bernardo

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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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AI in Agriculture Brief Highlights Crop Production

18% More Maize, 27% Less Nitrogen Loss?

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