Fall
2015
Grains
West
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GRAINSWEST
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FALL 2015
TABLE OF
CONTENTS
7-13
Farmgate
New and interesting developments in ag
17
Market monitor
The importance of crop-specific dynamics in a
drought year
By Jon Driedger
18
Tech@work
Flying robots
By Benjamin Allen
42
Face-off
Both sides of the OHS debate weigh in
44
From lab to field
Coping strategies for drought
By Stan Blade
45
Head of the class
Hit the books
By Edith Olson
46
Winter wheat variety breeds industry
excitement
By Allison Finnamore
48
Grain science news
What’s Alberta doing about Fusarium
head blight?
By Clare Stanfield
50
Against the grain
Canada’s bee division
By Lee Hart
/// Features ///
20
A newman
Oneil Carlier’s journey to
NDPMLA andMinister of
Agriculture and Forestry
By Trevor Bacque
22
The ‘S’ word
For modern farmers and
agribusiness, sustainability
is the name of the game
By Tyler Difley
26
Pollinator
polemics
Bee health and the
neonics debate in Alberta
andOntario
By Cullen Bird
32
Canada votes 2015
38
Safety first
Occupational health and safety on theway
for Alberta farms
By Scott Rollans
Funding
Neonics
UPOV 91
GrainMarketing
Railways
Canada-EUComprehensiveEconomicandTradeAgreement
SupplyManagement
Pesticides
Regulation
End Point Royalties
Breeding
TemporaryForeignWorkerProgram
Canadian
WheatBoard
Crop Insurance
GeneticallyModifiedCrops
CerealResearch
Drought
Assistance
Genetically
Modified
Organism
Labelling
AgriInvest
Herbicides
Transportation
Trans-PacificPartnership
Business Risk
Management
AgriStability
Growing Forward 3
Variety
Development
InternationalTrade
