An amazing panel today at #ICABR2025 chaired by Cami Ryan, PhD! Thank you Tracy Broughton, Shawna Mathieson, Rob Stone (Rob Stone 🇨🇦 🧢), Jill McDonald (Jill McDonald), and Paul Thiel for sharing your expertise. Also included was an opening video from Senator Rob Black.

Today, Rob Stone 🇨🇦 🧢 brought up how most seeding innovations were started within 4 hours of his own farm (near Davidson, SK). Because of this, I figured I’d share part of my Master’s research that tells the story of Saskatchewan producer driver innovation. How amazing!

Thank you to ICABR 2025 for the opportunity to moderate this panel session. With an international audience, it is so important to showcase regional capacities in agriculture. We had a grower, industry/innovator, and grower group perspectives. We covered a lot of ground with

Another piece of my research I’d love to share. Farmers are often driven to innovate/adopt based on economic sustainability. In turn, environmental sustainability is achieved. This goes hand in hand in terms of min-till and HT crops to name a couple! Stuart Smyth

If we are going to invest in infrastructure there’s no better place than at our ports. Nation building projects that will create jobs but will have a tangible effect on our GDP and a real ROI long term to the tax payer. If Canada really wants to go on the offensive it’s a

Food security matters far more than achieving net-zero.

I recently wrote a little piece on the section narrows bridge with RealAgriculture and how it should be one of the priorities for infrastructure investment. It’s just one a many many projects/ideas Canada has been talking about for years and years. It really is time we stop just

Earlier this month, Sask Agriculture brought ag communicators together to discuss Saskatchewan’s Carbon story. SaskOilseeds Policy Manager Dale Leftwich led the group discussion activity on how to remove the barriers between producer and consumer to have open & vulnerable