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Protein Industries Canada (PIC) said a new project will turn prairie crops into seafood alternatives.

Three B.C.-based food companies are involved in the research and development of using peas and canola protein as a substitute for traditional seafood.

PIC chief technical officer Meghan Gervais said the Regina-based company is providing $5.5 million for the $15 million project.

Roughly 20 plant-based seafood alternatives will eventually be available in Canadian grocery store freezers.

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Six hundred Canadian farms grow grain for Warburton's under custom contract — and that partnership exists because of Canadian plant breeding. Now the man responsible for maintaining it is sounding the alarm.

Adam Dyck is the program manager for Warburton's Canada, a company that produces over two million loaves of bread a day for more than 20,000 retail locations across the UK. He's watched Canadian wheat deliver thirty years of yield gains and quality advancements that make it worth sourcing at scale — and shipping across the Atlantic. But he's also watching the investment conditions that produced those gains come under pressure. Dyck makes the case for a new funding mechanism that brings both public and private dollars into wheat breeding before Canada's competitive window starts to close.