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Crop Production Show 2025: Saskatchewan funds agriculture research

The Saskatchewan government has partnered with agricultural industry groups to commit $14.8 million to the Sustainable Canadian Agricultural Partnership. Of that, $5.4 million has been co-funded from the 10 industry partners, while the rest of the investment comes from the Saskatchewan Agriculture Development Fund (ADF). The announcement came on day two of the 2025 Crop […] Read more

Sean Asselin and Hongjie Zhang with the AAFC Swift Current Research and Development Centre are among the many researchers participating in a four-year project on Prairie rangelands.  |  AAFC photo

Putting a dollar to rangeland benefits

Glacier FarmMedia – How much are native grasslands worth? One research project is aimed at answering that question. The Genome Prairie project, a multi-year, $5.9 million endeavour that involves public and academic stakeholders, will use genomic tools in attempts to figure out the dollar value of rangelands and the ecological goods and services they provide. […] Read more