Dave Bedard

Winnipeg

News Editor at AGCanada.com

Editor at Grainews

Editor at Between The Rows

Editor of @grainews. A Saskatchewan transplant in Winnipeg.

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Articles

What we know about how wildfire smoke affects Prairie crops

1 week ago | grainews.ca | Dave Bedard

With nearly 100 active wildfires across the three Prairie provinces at this writing, farmers don’t have to go far to see and feel the effects of smoke in the atmosphere — but what this year’s crops will experience is a more complicated matter. If you’ve got time for some reading right now, here we’ve gathered a list of links to recent years’ articles on the subject from across our sister publications.
Canterra buys pedigreed seed firm Alliance Seed

1 month ago | steinbachonline.com | Dave Bedard

Alliance will remain a 'standalone' brand under Canterra ownership. The lone remaining shareholder in a pedigreed seed company formed by a group of independent grain handling companies in Western Canada is selling that business to another Prairie seed firm.
Farms will feel aftershocks from glyphosate lawsuit slog

1 month ago | manitobacooperator.ca | Dave Bedard

Every now and then I’ll still hear someone bring up the infamous McDonald’s hot coffee case — usually as a narrative shorthand to describe a world where nuisance lawsuits run wild. In case you’ve somehow never heard of it, that case involved a woman in the U.S. who, in 1992, accidentally spilled hot takeout coffee in her lap and eventually sued McDonald’s over the resulting injuries.
Canterra buys pedigreed seed firm Alliance Seed

1 month ago | producer.com | Dave Bedard

The lone remaining shareholder in a pedigreed seed company formed by a group of independent grain handling companies in Western Canada is selling that business to another Prairie seed firm.
Editor’s Rant: The coffee conundrum

1 month ago | grainews.ca | Dave Bedard

Every now and then I’ll still hear someone bring up the infamous McDonald’s hot coffee case — usually as a narrative shorthand to describe a world where nuisance lawsuits run wild.
Canterra buys pedigreed seed firm Alliance Seed

1 month ago | agcanada.com | Dave Bedard

Glacier FarmMedia—The lone remaining shareholder in a pedigreed seed company formed by a group of independent grain handling companies in Western Canada is selling that business to another Prairie seed firm.
Canterra buys pedigreed seed firm Alliance Seed

1 month ago | grainews.ca | Dave Bedard

The lone remaining shareholder in a pedigreed seed company formed by a group of independent grain handling companies in Western Canada is selling that business to another Prairie seed firm.
Electioneering overload

1 month ago | manitobacooperator.ca | Dave Bedard

As much as some people claim to enjoy the sport of federal politics, few have likely enjoyed this campaign. Prime Minister Mark Carney got approval on March 23 to dissolve the 44th Parliament of Canada and call an election for April 28. Within that tight turnaround, political parties had to get new candidates lined up while incumbents made last-minute decisions on whether to seek re-election.
Editor’s Rant: Contents under pressure

1 month ago | grainews.ca | Dave Bedard

As much as some people claim to enjoy the sport of federal politics, I don’t expect even they will have been as excited as they might otherwise be at the way this election campaign has come to pass. If you’ve somehow been away or asleep all this time — and in either case, you have my congratulations — Prime Minister Mark Carney got approval on March 23 to dissolve the 44th Parliament of Canada and call an election for April 28.
Next Bayer R&D chief leading digital charge

1 month ago | grainews.ca | Dave Bedard

Bayer Crop Science has set a leadership succession plan in motion for research and development (R&D), naming plant breeder Mike Graham as its new head of R&D effective April 15. Graham, who will operate from St. Louis, has been with Bayer since 1996, starting as a plant breeder, and has been “deeply involved in the design and development of next-generation seed, traits and customer-focused solutions,” Bayer says.