2022 Harvest Over 80 Percent Completion

Sep 26, 2022

The latest Alberta crop report says 77 percent of crops in the province are now in the bin.

As always, those numbers were compiled almost a week ago, so it's likely that number is approaching 85 percent at this point. The report says 100 percent of pulse crops are combined, whereas canola was only 46 percent combined. Provincially it said 87 percent of all crops were swathed or combined with an expected 10-year yield index of 107 and with grading expectations of the provincial wheat, barley, canola and pea crops ahead of 10-year averages.

For farmers that are done, the showers that rolled through some regions on Friday night were certainly welcome. The central region's surface soil moisture conditions are rated as 7 percent poor, 42 percent fair, 46 percent good and four percent excellent.

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Video: Democratizing Gene Editing - Pairwise’s Vision for the Future of Agriculture

Pairwise has built its business around an idea that runs counter to how many companies approach innovation: make transformative technology easier to access.

In this Seed World interview, CEO Tom Adams discusses why broader access to gene editing could speed crop improvement, expand innovation opportunities and help agriculture address emerging challenges. He explains why Pairwise believes no single company can solve all of agriculture's problems alone—and why making advanced breeding technologies available to more organizations could accelerate progress across the industry.

The conversation explores how consumer trust influences technology adoption, why innovations like pitless cherries and seedless blackberries matter beyond convenience, and how future crop improvements could help address labor shortages, automation, harvest efficiency and other production challenges. Adams also shares his perspective on what the industry may be underestimating about the next wave of gene editing innovation.

Watch the full interview to hear why Pairwise believes agriculture is approaching an important inflection point for gene editing, and why the pace of innovation over the next decade could surprise the industry.

Topics Covered:

o Democratizing agricultural innovation

o Consumer trust and technology adoption

o The business case for sharing innovation

o Expanding innovation beyond major crops

o Next-generation breeding technologies