Reading Time: 2 minutes Argentine company signs deal with Colorado Wheat Research Foundation to commercialize drought tolerant wheat in the U.S.
GM wheat gets closer to reality in U.S.
Proposed dicamba restrictions please expert
Reading Time: 4 minutes Spray expert says proposed dicamba rule change would ban ‘over the top’ use of the herbicide
Health Canada proposes new restrictions for dicamba on soybeans
Reading Time: 2 minutes Pest Management Regulatory Agency removes the registration to spray dicamba on dicamba tolerant soybeans after the crop starts growing
VIDEO: Cereal drought tolerant ratings hard to compile
Farmers rely on anecdotal information to select drought hardy varieties
Reading Time: 3 minutes Cereals and most crops have ratings for disease resistance, yield potential, straw height and other traits, but not drought tolerance. Right now, that sort of information is anecdotal
Research focuses on drought tolerant alfalfa
Yellow flowers could help scientists breed new varieties that cope with dry conditions
Reading Time: 2 minutes Exotic alfalfa varieties that produce white, blue, cream and yellow flowers are being looked at by plant breeders to improve the crop's drought tolerance.
Entomologist tests trap crops and marigolds to repel flea beetles at an Ag in Motion
Reading Time: 3 minutes An Agriculture Canada entomologist is experimenting with trap crops and marigolds at an Ag in Motion demonstration cropplot
Artificial intelligence put to work on extension
Farm Credit Canada, Results Driven Agriculture Research unveil AI tool designed to produce ‘timely advice’ for farmers
Reading Time: 2 minutes Farm Credit Canada and Results Driven Agriculture Research (RDAR) have unveiled a generative artificial intelligence tool called Root
Confused by Trump’s tariffs? Better ask a lawyer
A Canadian law firm is using its website in an attempt to make sense of the ongoing and difficult to understand trade chaos
Reading Time: 3 minutes Osler, a business law firm with offices in Toronto, Montreal, Calgary, Ottawa, Vancouver and New York, attempted to make sense of the ongoing trade chaos in a June 3 post on its website.
Drought developing in northern Saskatchewan agricultural region
Almost no rain has fallen since April 1 in Nipawin and Prince Albert
Reading Time: 2 minutes In the 30 days of April, Nipawin received one millimetre of precipitation. In the first 27 days of May, the Environment Canada weather station in Nipawin recorded 1.5 mm of rain and snow.
Gene edited pig gets green light in America
Reading Time: 2 minutes Pork made from gene-edited pigs could soon be on supermarket shelves in Canada.
A message from April Stewart, Country Guide's Associate Editor
