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Top Crop Manager is committed to ensuring you have access to the digital edition of the magazine. In each featured article, you'll find a link to its associated online issue - or check the info tab on the website.
- Kaitlin Berger, west editor
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New funding for three 4-H Alberta programs will help bridge the gap between urban and rural kids and develop safety and mental health programming. Through Sustainable Canadian Agricultural Partnership (Sustainable CAP), the governments of Canada and Alberta are investing more than $731,000 over five years into the Intro to 4-H program, the Agriculture Safety and Mental Health Workshop and the Senior Spring Symposium.
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Researchers from the University of Adelaide in Australia investigated how to manufacture more efficient zinc-enriched fertilizers, using the Canadian Light Source (CLS) at the University of Saskatchewan (USask). They originally suspected the type of zinc compound would help predict a fertilizer’s solubility, but the CLS beamline showed them the pH drives the fertilizer zinc solubility and availability to the crops.
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On November 15, 2024, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Prabowo Subianto, the president of Indonesia, welcomed the substantive conclusion of negotiations for a Canada-Indonesia Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA). The objective of the agreement is to bring CEPA into force as soon as possible. The Canadian Agri-Food Trade Alliance (CAFTA) has supported Canada's efforts to reach this agreement and sees it as a good growth opportunity for agri-food exports given Indonesia's position in the market.
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The race is on, ever since the Canadian Food Inspection Agency announced in May 2023 that gene-edited seeds would be regulated the same as conventionally bred seed varieties, Canadian researchers are investigating how gene editing could be applied to Canadian crops. The first Canadian field trial was conducted in 2024.
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Plant breeders are a proactive group. Whether growers are facing disease, insect pests, devastating weather events or specific consumer demand, their goal is to have varieties that are ready for it. They continue to do what they can to provide more and more options to Canadian growers, using tools to speed up the breeding process or bringing varieties with better disease resistance to the market.
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To celebrate the 100th episode of Inputs, a special guest joined the podcast to share his insight on a topic on everyone’s mind lately: AI in agriculture. As in every other industry, AI is taking off rapidly - and agriculture is no exception. Darrell Petras, CEO of the Canadian Agri-Food Automation and Intelligence Network (CAAIN) explains the specific ways AI is being used in agriculture right now, the challenges it might help solve in the future and the potential benefit to a farmer’s bottom line.
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