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The First Sixteen

Agriculture and Agri-food Canadaagriculture.canada.ca
Welcome to Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada’s podcast series that explores the freshest ideas in agriculture and food. Each episode explores a single topic in depth—digging deep into new practices, innovative ideas, and their impacts on the industry. Learn about Canada’s agricultural sector from the people making the breakthroughs and knocking down the barriers! Farmers and foodies, scientists and leaders, and anyone with an eye on the future of the sector—this podcast is for you!
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Episodes

Saving nutrients with novel science

Christopher Garnham and his team at AAFC have discovered something very small that could have big impacts in the food and feed industry. Some crops such as corn and wheat can be infected by a fungus that, while growing, produces mycotoxins. Ingestion of mycotoxin-laden food and feed is detrimental to the health of livestock and humans. Listen as Christopher Garnham explains the discovery they made of an enzyme that has the potential to mitigate these toxins in Canadian agri-food and agri-feed.

Nov 04, 202014 minEp. 5

RADARSAT Constellation Mission - agriculture from space

Learn about the Radarsat Constellation Mission, the type of data that flows from it, its applications in agriculture and how it is used by environmental stewards to work with farmers. In this episode we speak to Dr. Andrew Davidson, Manager Earth Observation at AAFC and Jacqui Empson Laporte, Environmental Specialist, from OMAFRA.

Oct 14, 202013 minEp. 4

Farmers, innovators! And how good ideas spread.

Interview with Julie Dawson, a beef specialist at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada who is also a sixth-generation farmer. Listen in on this fascinating discussion about how much farming has and is changing, and how fast.

Sep 24, 202022 minEp. 1
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