Stuart Smyth
@stuartsmyth66
I hold the Agri-Food Innovation & Sustainability Enhancement Chair at USask. Interested in sustainability, agriculture, innovation, food & benefits of biotech.
Canada will need to decide whether it's more important to have trade deal that promote economic growth or never sign another trade deal, with no economic growth simply to protect 4200 inefficient Quebec dairy farms. #endsupplymanagement westernstandard.news/opinion/morgan…
SAIFood continues to make an important contribution to informing readers with facts and evidence. From July 2024 to June 2025, visits from171 countries were recorded. saifood.ca
We've been busy the last few weeks with conferences and tradeshows, exploring everything Canadian agriculture has to offer. Today's #SummerRepost is a step back, a re-introduction to the bioeconomy: an emergent area of food opportunity - saifood.ca/bioeconomy-foo…
NZ-developed high metabolisable energy (HME) GM ryegrass is undergoing field trials in the US. An associated methane trial on lambs grazing HME showed an 11% reduction in emissions compared to other pasture varieties. farmersweekly.co.nz/technology/out…
Thank you for the invitation! Looking forward to the event.
POGA AGM Speaker Spotlight: We're excited to welcome @stuartsmyth66, to speak on: “Speculation vs. Evidence: The Realities for Prairie Crop Production.” Don’t miss this important conversation! poga.ca/about-poga/pog…
Very interesting thread on the role of AI and technology like Chat GPT among academics. It's changing our job and how we do our job. I study innovation and it's often ruthless. The saying, "Adopt, adapt, or die", exists for a reason.
90% of academic papers I read are now AI-assisted. Most researchers are in complete denial. I'm a professor who's been brutally using AI for 18 months. Here's what I learned that could save your career:
Peru: Gene editing could transform potato farming 🥔 | Gene editing is emerging as one of the most disruptive technologies in the field of #agriculture. Its promise: to modify crops to improve their nutritional profile and make them sustainable, as well as resistant to pests,…
Global adoption of GM crops reached a new record high of 210 million hectares in 2024. Leading GM crops are soybeans, (105.1m ha) corn (68.4m ha), cotton (24.8 m ha), and canola (10.4a ha). 28 countries approved new GM varieties in 2024. seedworld.com/latam/2025/07/…
Very pleased to be doing 13 interviews with CBC radio stations (@cbcradio) across Canada this morning on the importance of ending supply management in Canada. It's great to be able to discuss the benefits of ending these anti-competitive policies.
Excellent story about the expensive and hidden costs of supply management in Canada. share.google/Rj3lyi7hxCm4vo…
Encouraging report on a recent @FAO conference on agricultural biotechnology from @stuartsmyth66 “Upon hearing their [pro-agroecology] arguments soundly and thoroughly refuted by expert scientists, the activists abandoned the conference.” producer.com/news/faos-supp…
Has anybody used these in a feed lot? Are they worth a shit?
Excellent panel at #ICABR2025. Tracy Broughton, Shawna Mathieson, Rob Stone, Jill McDonald and Paul Thiel talking about the importance of innovation for resilient agriculture. Moderated by Cami Ryan.
Very pleased to have @BioBeef giving a keynote address to start day 2 of #ICABR2025.
An estimated 2.3 billion people suffer from some degree of nutrition deficiency or food insecurity. This is just shy of 1 in 4 people. Without innovative agriculture technologies, this won't improve. Organics aren't a viable solution. #ICABR2025
Very pleased to have @KHefferon kick off #ICABR2025 with her keynote address on molecular agriculture.
Sending a huge shout of thanks to Okanagan Specialty Fruits and @Sarah_Evanega for providing samples of Arctic Apples for the ICABR Conference attendees next week.
Every GMO debate ignores one simple fact: You've almost never eaten a “natural” food in your life. 👇1/
It is the end of our blog season and, with that, some final words from @stuartsmyth66 about everything the 2024/2025 year accomplished. Happy summer! We will continue posting updates and throwbacks for July and August, but new blogs return in September - mailchi.mp/1cfe69db901b/y…