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  Guelph researchers creating a more robust, transgenic canola Crop breeders from the University of Guelph are well on their way to creating a better yielding, more stress-tolerant canola variety. Early results are showing an increased seed yield of 35 per cent per plant. The researchers used gene editing to remove some canola genes and […] Read more

It can feel like the lottery when it comes to which fields get rain and which ones don’t when clouds roll in. But what does that mean for fertilizers that need soil moisture to get nutrients moving into plants? Marla Riekman, soil fertility specialist with Manitoba Agriculture, shares what she’s hearing from growers in southern […] Read more

As the Ag in Motion farm show is set to kick off on July 15, Scott Garvey for Grainews takes a look at how farm shows have evolved on the prairies and speaks to show director Rob O’Connor about what it takes to put on a modern day, major farm show.

Update No. 8, July 8, 2025 (below): Bruce visits a canola and soybean field and both crops are progressing nicely – the canola is bolting and flowering and the soybeans are in the V4 to V7 stage. A little bit of rain reportedly fell in the area which helped these two fields develop, but more […] Read more