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Gene-edited wheat trials, bills passing or being challenged, and a new Inputs episode after a few months on hiatus – there's plenty on the go in this week's newsletter.
- Alex Barnard, Eastern editor
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Canola producers in northeastern Ontario have reported symptoms over the past five to eight years. In 2024, above-ground symptoms were more obvious in Temiskaming District.
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Over 40 of Canada's agriculture and agri-food industry groups expressed concern that Bill C-282 would threaten Canada’s trade-based economy in the context of the 2026 Review of the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement.
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The two bills amend the Copyright Act, allowing farmers access to diagnostic software needed to repair sophisticated machinery and facilitating the interoperability of parts and equipment.
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Ready. Set. Go. Since the Canadian Food Inspection Agency announced in May 2023 that gene-edited seeds would be regulated the same as conventionally bred seed varieties, researchers in Canada are investigating how gene editing could be applied to Canadian crops. Leading the early race are researchers at AACF-Lethbridge working with spring wheat.
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The past few years have seen flax acres waning in Western Canada. While flax remains an excellent option for diversifying crop rotation, it’s difficult to compete against the choice to grow canola. Research to improve flax varieties is crucial for ensuring flax is an attractive option to include in rotation – and accelerated breeding holds promising results.
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While no cover crop is a quick fix or solution to all a field's problems, when treated like specialist tools and used with defined goals in mind, they can do many things, including busting up compacted soils, boosting soil organic matter, keeping weeds down – and suppressing diseases like Fusarium root and crown rot in soybean and barley, according to a recently published study based on research at AAFC-Charlottetown.
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