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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

Canada

The Best Partnerships Don’t Sell Machines. They Build Better Ones

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Canada

How One Seed Plant Upgrade Improved Flax Cleaning — and Much More

Canada

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

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Designed To Thrive | Welcome To On The Brink: Season 3
Canadian plant breeding is at a tipping point. Shawn Brook says it is time to move from possibility to action. Season 3 asks what helps it...
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Canada

The Slowest Part of Plant Breeding May No Longer Be Biology

Canada

How Drought is Changing Canola’s Battle With Verticillium Stripe

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

Canada

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

Canada

What This New Partnership Could Mean for Every Wheat and Barley Farmer

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

Canada

Flax Could Hold an Answer to Farming’s Fertilizer Problem

Canada

Why CSGA’s New President Says Now is the Time to Get Involved

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Canada

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

Canada

Seed Certification Was Built for Trust. It Has to Be Built for Change, Too

Canada

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

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Canada

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

Canada

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

Canada

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

RESEARCH
Canada

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

Canada

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

Yue Yu
Canada

Can Genomics Speed Up the Journey From Breeder to Farmer?

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When Action is the Only Option | On The Brink: Season 2 – Episode 16

The closure of the Indian Head Research Farm drew objections from across the sector in January. None of them changed...
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Building an Ecosystem Instead of a Blueprint | On The Brink: Season 2 – Episode 15

Dan Wright says there is no master plan for Canadian plant breeding. It is an ecosystem. The vision exists; the...
Soybean breeder Istvan Rajcan stands in a soybean field at pod stage in a University of Guelph polo shirt, discussing public-private plant breeding funding.
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From Students To Scientists | On The Brink: Season 2 – Episode 14

Ask Canada's most decorated soybean breeder his favourite part of the job and he doesn't name a variety. He names...
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The Varieties Fade; The Impact Doesn’t

NAPB award recipient Istvan Rajcan explains why farmer adoption, research freedom and training future scientists define plant breeding impact....
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No Agenda, Just Listening: Glenn Logan Reflects on Leading the Canadian Seed Growers’ Association

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