It’s time for some good news!
We’re well into 2026 by now. I don’t know about the rest of you, but lately I’ve found the news can feel pretty bleak.
That’s why this Bio-Bulletin feels like a breath of fresh air. There is a lot of good news happening on the bio-front, from strengthening food security through technology and research, to making farm tours more virtually accessible to the public, to creating an index for measuring agriculture’s sustainability performance. Data definitely helps tell our stories.
Anyone in the ag-bio space knows that what we do touches many aspects of people’s lives: food, of course, but also health care, the environment, and expanding knowledge and discoveries that will help future generations. The stories in this issue cover a wide variety of ways our industry is doing good in the world.
I’m also delighted that this Bio-Bulletin is multi-media. We have videos and podcasts to share as well as more traditional articles. I’d like to give a shout-out to the University of Saskatchewan’s Tedx program, which produced 11 Tedx talks featuring USask researchers. We’ve featured two of the agriculture-focused ones here in the Bio-Bulletin, but we also encourage you to watch the rest of them!
We’ve launched four Crop Science Conversations as part of our knowledge transfer program for the Diverse Field Crops Cluster. Kevin Hursh sat down with our DFCC scientists to learn more about their research on mustard, flax, camelina and sunflowers. We hope you enjoy!
Don’t forget to look for the good news that is happening all around you in our agriculture!
