Reading Time: 5 minutes About five years ago, before she joined the Western Grains Research Foundation (WGRF), Pat Flaten was thinking about the state of agronomic research in Western Canada. At the time, she and her colleagues were thinking about bug researchers in Saskatoon. “We knew we had this great group of highly productive and experienced entomologists who were […] Read more
The future of agronomic research
A new WGRF report sees urgent threats to the West’s research system
A crop diagnostic lab on a microchip
New technology is bringing the science lab to the field for better, faster scouting decisions
Reading Time: 5 minutes It’s a sentence nobody likes to hear, especially in the midst of all the time pressures and the short windows of farming today. “I’m not sure about this, we’d better send a sample to the lab.” It might be an agrologist or crop scout who says it to you, or a plant pathologist or veterinarian, […] Read more
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