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Inputs: The Podcast

AAFC pest control tech repurposed as weed seed crusher

The potato vine crusher, developed in 2011 by AAFC’s Christine Noronha, has found new life thanks to AAFC weed scientist Andrew McKenzie-Gopsill as a weed seed crusher, with promising results.


AAFC launches new round of Living Labs initiative

This first wave of new collaborative projects will take root in British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland and Labrador, including the first Indigenous-led living lab.


IWCA podcast series: Lana Shaw

From risky career moves and adversity in the workplace to the illness and death of a loved one, Shaw has encountered many curve balls, crediting her village of supportive people to help her get through the challenges she’s faced.
 
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Video: Cultivating Innovation

Video: Cultivating Innovation – the impact of agtech

Our Cultivating Innovation virtual roundtable discussion included select panellists contributing their thoughts and insights on the adoption, challenges, opportunities and future of technology in agriculture. Hosted by Stefanie Croley, editorial director, Top Crop Manager, the roundtable featured Darcy Herauf (FCC Ag Expert), Kerry Wright (CAAIN), Alex Melnitchouck (Olds College) and Alain Goubau (Combyne Ag). » Watch the video...
 
Aster leafhopper

Aster leafhopper host plant selection on the Prairies

Researchers are now a few steps closer to understanding how aster yellows outbreaks erupt on the Prairies. Two recent studies published by Berenice Romero, University of Saskatchewan PhD student, have zeroed in on a missing part of the aster yellows puzzle: which Prairie plant species are suitable food and reproductive hosts for aster leafhoppers, the main vector of the phytoplasma that causes this disease. » Learn more...
 
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Ag In Motion

July 19-21
Langham, Sask.
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Canada’s Outdoor Farm Show

Sept. 13-15
Woodstock, Ont.
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