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The First Sixteen
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20 of 39 episodesWomen farmers leading into the future
2026 is the International Year of the Woman Farmer. Women are changing the face of farming in Canada. They are highly educated. They’re work...
More Than a Transaction: Reimagining Farm Transitions
Farm transitions aren’t simply business deals — they’re deeply human and often emotionally complex. In this episode, we speak with two innov...
From Fences to Firewalls: Cyber security in agriculture
From phones and computers to automated systems in barns and data collection in harvesters, each piece of technology on a farm is a fantastic...
Opening new markets in the Indo-Pacific
How do we open new markets in diverse and dynamic countries? What challenges do we face, and what solutions are being used? Chris White, Pre...
Innovative investments: Venture capital funding in agriculture and food
Innovators take risks. And they need investors who are willing and informed to help them take the risks. Alison Sunstrum is a pioneering ent...
On Farm Climate Action in Action
Farmers are taking action to protect the environment and strengthen the competitiveness of our agricultural sector. We speak with three prod...
Calculating crop rotation for potatoes
Lori Robinson, a 6 th generation farmer in PEI, is a data hound. As a result of her 50+ years of her and her family taking detailed notes an...
Plant breeding: Long-game innovation in a fast-changing world
How has plant breeding evolved over the past 20 years? Who are the players in Canada? What is the plant breeding continuum? And what is the...
Science vs. food waste
Can we make biodegradable plastics using food waste? Can we control disease in crops and eliminate food borne pathogens using just hydrogen...
Challenge accepted!
Announcing the two winners of the Food Waste Reduction Challenge (Business Models Stream) Two companies took away $1.5 M! Find out who they...
Is that a robot in your field?
Ag-robotics specialists Chuck Baresich believes you’ll have a robot in your field sooner than you think. What will they do? How will they ad...
Hiring smart
Hear from two innovators who are successfully tackling labor shortages in our sector: one at the national level with an all-encompassing, al...
Straight talk about pesticides
How is pesticide use evolving on farms? What are maximum residue limits? How does the government determine what is safe? Brian Rideout, a fr...
Turning manure into gold
“Waste is not waste. It’s just misplaced resources”. That is according to Rajinikanth Rajagopal and the team of researchers at the Sherbrook...
Modelling the future of water
To predict the future of water, we have to understand the present. That's exactly what AAFC's Dr. David Lapen and Dr. Steven Frey from Aquan...
Saving our organic soils
40% of Quebec’s fruits and vegetables are grown in the Montérégie region due to its abundantly fertile organic soils. But these soils are un...
Agroforestry: The new-old science
When agriculture meets forestry, the result can have a surprising impact on the environment, wildlife habitats, crop production, and beyond....
Shedding light on food fraud
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada and the Canadian Food Inspection Agency come together in this special two-part episode on honey fraud in Ca...
Putting a rope around antimicrobial resistance in cattle
When veterinarian Dr. Greg Dimmers noticed an alarming pattern of infection in beef cattle, he contacted microbiologist Dr. Tim McAllister t...
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