October 16, 2026

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Canadian Seed Growers' Association, Seed Scoop, October 2026

October 15, 2026

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Mahindra starts commercial production of MaxSeeder, a precision zero-till seeding farm machine

New technique holds promise for improved gene editing

USA - National Science Foundation awards $22.5M to continue plant-human communication projects

New facility builds on long Washington State University, USDA partnership to boost agriculture

Dave Bubeck, Corteva Agriscience's Research Director and Global Breeding Alliances Lead, reflects on past and future innovations (AgriNews)

Horizon Ag's CLL20 and PVL06

Early heat and drought stress can have lasting effects on corn

USDA/NIFA invests over $121M in research facilities projects 

October 14, 2026

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USDA announces $86.6 million investment into the U.S. specialty crop industry

University of Kentucky student Ella Shields gains recognition, experience as plant breeding ‘independent researcher’

Oats on the go

University of Minnesota Professor Rex Bernardo launches a podcast called Plant Breeding Matters

Growing the conversation:  GermiNation teams up with Seed Today

October 13, 2026

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Corn and Soybean Cost of Production in Brazil and the United States

Characteristics and Trends of U.S. Rice Production Practices, Costs, and Returns, 2013−24

USDA/APHIS deregulates African marigold engineered to produce red flowers

Kansas State University research digs deeper into soybean meal quality

Syngenta names Jeff Cecil President, North America Crop Protection

Registration is open for the 2027 Organic Seed Growers Conference in Asheville, North Carolina, and online

What happens after breeding matters - Breeding is only the beginning

October 12, 2026

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Mapping the plant ionome: Meet Magdalena Janik, PhD student at Washington University in St. Louis and 2026 William T. Kemper Fellow

Flax can be more than just a rotation filler (The Western Producer)

U.S. crop genome sequencing gets $180 million boost - Department of Agriculture will expand effort to describe genetics of seed banks (Science)

October 9, 2026

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BioConsortia raises $15 million to accelerate commercial launch of breakthrough microbial technologies

USA - Syngenta submits HiFlex label expansion aimed at giving corn growers greater herbicide program flexibility

Canadian Prairies - Certified seed has seen its market share increase since 2010; does that mean farmers would be OK with giving up saved seed? (The Western Producer)

Heritable and Kagome enlist AI to hunt for tomato disease-resistance genes (AFN)

From nursery row to seed bag: How Stine Seed builds a better corn hybrid

FFAR-funded research prepares farmers for insecticide use changes