b'helps me keep up to date with bigUniversity of Saskatchewan. I got a changes that are happening, and thatjob with Dow Agrosciences in their helps me better inform our customerscanola research program. In 2018 I of those changes. arrived at FP Genetics.TRY NEW THINGS What do you like about being at FP?I get to work a lot with the scientific Name:Madison Spyk community, breeders, pathologists. Org: SeCan (Ontario) As I also work with growers. I see Job: Marketing Assistant all the sides of the business. The Age: 25 traditional boundaries of my job are disappearing in a lot of ways, and Why do you do what you do? thats really critical for success now I majored in crop science. I didntin my field.grow up on a farm but really loved ag and marketing, so hearing aboutPROBLEM-SOLVING FROM ABOVEthe position got me really intrigued. ItKARA NADEAUwas a steep learning curve, but I loveName:Alex Zelemit. I think Im the youngest at SeCanOrg: C&M Seedscan right now.Job: AgronomistAge: 27What do you like best about it?I get to see all the different aspectsWhy agronomy?of marketing seed. The internetIve always enjoyed being in the has changed everything and totallyfield, learning different things, prob-revolutionized how seed is createdlem solving. A couple years ago, we and sold. I get to be at the forefronthad really bad winter kill and lost a of that. lot of winter wheat. Using modern technology like satellite imagery, we Advice for others? were able to look at the field as a Just because you didnt come fromwhole. In the end, we had a good a farm background, dont think yougrowing season that year as we man-cant get involved in ag. Dont beaged to find spots that had not been afraid to try new things.wiped out and save them. SIMRANJIT SINGHERASING BOUNDARIES Whats one major technologicalwish of yours?Name:Simranjit Singh Doing soil and tissue tests in-field is Org: FP Genetics (Saskatchewan) kind of the next frontier. We could Job: Seed Production Agronomist work so much faster if we could do Age: 35 even more out in the field and get real-time results. Whats your story?Im originally from India, a state called Punjab, which is in the north-ern part of India. Its very similar to Saskatchewan, as the majority ofThis feature is a part of the Canadian Plant Breeding people there are in agriculture. IndiaInnovation Scholarship program. All people profiled and Saskatchewan are different inare part of at least one of our sponsor organizations. many ways, but I brought my loveIf youd like information on sponsoring an annualCPBI scholarship, visit our website for info of farming with me to Canada. I didat germination.ca/cpbi-awards or email my agriculture degree here at themzienkiewicz@seedworldgroup.comALEX ZELEMJULY 2021 GERMINATION.CA 9'