Canadian approval was recently granted for a plant-based COVID-19 vaccine called Covifenz. This marks the first time anywhere in the world a COVID-19 vaccine grown in plants has been approved. Developed by a Quebec company called Medicago, this is another example of a new world of opportunity called molecular farming. Plants are modified to produce […] Read more
Stories by Scott Day

Predict protein shape in all three dimensions
Editor’s note: We welcome a new columnist this week. Scott Day farms at Deloraine, Man. He served as an ag-rep and manager of the Manitoba Agriculture research farm. He is now partner in a farmland/ag tech investment company Fall Line Capital based in San Francisco. He continues to live and farm with his family at […] Read more