Breanna Miller and Jay Whetter, two Canola Council of Canada employees, spent the day on a National Circle for Indigenous Agriculture and Food (NCIAF) tour in August. They made a short presentation about canola and spent the rest of the day connecting with Indigenous farmers and National Circle staff.
Harmeet Singh Chawla leads one of four new grower-funded verticillium stripe studies. Chawla will create genetic markers for the most aggressive verticillium stripe isolates. Test labs can use these markers to qualify the virulence level of isolates in a field. Canola breeders can use them to select cultivars with resistance to these most virulent isolates.
The carbon market is like a black box. Is agriculture, in general, missing a big opportunity to make more money from carbon? Will carbon “farming” become a bigger and bigger part of our lives?
What are you worried could have a major impact on the farm business
in the near future? And how will you plan for that “asteroid strike”?