GRIP roundtable: a team sport for livestock innovation

Jan 14, 2025

Our recent Getting Research Into Practice (GRIP) roundtable highlighted a simple but powerful truth: GRIP is a team sport. With diverse perspectives from agribusiness, livestock sector associations, researchers, government, and producers, the event emphasized that innovation thrives on collaboration.

A recurring theme was the importance of trust—an essential foundation for producer adoption of new practices or technologies. Trust takes time to build, but it’s critical for success. The roundtable also underscored the need for alignment among team members, ensuring everyone plays the same game and shares a clear vision of what "winning" means.

GRIP is not a one-off event; it happens at every stage of the livestock innovation cycle. Everyone—whether in research, policy, or production—has a role to play in turning innovation into impactful practice. Together, we create a winning team for Ontario’s livestock sector.

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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