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Interest in farming is a great communications opportunity
The world’s food needs are under the microscope and we hear near-daily pleas from groups such as the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization for greater investment in feeding hungry people. So why are...
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Ten steps to keep modern agriculture on the right track
Is modern agriculture on the right track? For the most part yes, says Rob Hannam, president of the Synthesis Agri-Food Consulting Network. Rob, pictured below, offered a well-paced and ample...
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Green light from Environment Canada for transgenic Enviropigs
The Enviropig, the first transgenic animal created to address phosphorus loading on the environment, is getting the green light from Environment Canada. Global TV has a story today on its website...
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Innovation cluster could be Guelph’s future
Guelph’s already a national leader in agri-food innovation, but it’s only skimmed the surface, according to a new report commissioned by the city, the University of Guelph, the Guelph Partnership for...
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This biotech cradle is ready to rock
Europeans aren’t big fans of biotechnology. They never embraced it the way North America did. And despite about 20 years of apparently safe production and consumption here, some people still aren’t...
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All about the Enviropig, straight from the horse’s mouth
Enviropigs (photo by Cecil Forsberg) Few advances in science from the University of Guelph have generated as much interest as the Enviropig, which has been genetically altered to excrete less...
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In farming, technology moves faster than culture
Roger Waite (left) of the EU agriculture commissioner's office is pictured here discussing policy matters at Green Week in Berlin with Canada's IFAJ executive representative Allison Finnamore and me....
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Science beat precaution in anti-biotech bill defeat
Critics of science argue it alone is inadequate for making public policy. Evidence-based findings, they say, must be measured against the peoples’ pulse. Only with the public’s blessing can science be...
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Putting so-called superweeds in perspective
As fall advances and winter approaches, weeds don’t look like much of a problem. But in Ontario and elsewhere, some of them are developing resistance to the same herbicides that would kill them only a...
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What’s “right” can be a matter of perspective
People dump on the media when things are reported incorrectly. That’s understandable. Despite deadline pressures, journalists are supposed to get things right. They go with what they know to be right...
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