As the name of his Rocky Mountain House business suggests, Sheldon Rice hunts for water, and most of the time he locates it. WaterFind uses electroseismology, which employs electromagnetic and seismic...

Vijay Kumar Tiwari didn’t expect to become a hero in the eyes of wheat farmers. But since he and his team at the University of Maryland in Washington, D.C., identified a gene mutation capable of tripl...

No topic sucks more oxygen from the room than AI. Opinions abound around whether AI is a positive or negative, and data centres have become the quintessential NIMBY issue. There is deep fear AI will d...

A year ago in these pages, Grain Growers of Canada (GGC) warned that the country was losing ground on crop research. Public investment was declining, competitors were investing more aggressively and f...

Emerging markets tend to have a few things in common: an increase in population, urbanization and changing diets with a growing demand for wheat-based foods. As Canadian grain farmers, you know the va...

We often treat soil like it’s just dirt, but it’s so much more. It’s the source of life in many ways. Healthy soil is a living, breathing ecosystem that serves as our planet’s most vital capital. The ...

Hulless, or naked, barley refers to varieties in which the loosely adhered outer hull is removed at harvest. In Canada, these have typically been developed for the food sector with special attributes ...

Farmers collect enormous volumes of data through yield maps, soil samples, field records and farm management software. It has been a constant challenge to figure out what to do with it. Think of all t...

Equipment manufacturers have long promised a hands-free future in which autonomous units seed, spray and harvest with little or no human input. At Hannover, Germany’s Agritechnica 2025, the world’s la...

It’s funny to discuss AI today as if we haven’t been living our lives with real applications of this seemingly Back to the Future technology for decades. With many examples from ’90s era voice-to-text...