On today's program...

-- Two herbicide resistant weeds are slowly moving north through the United States and could be in Saskatchewan within 5 to 10 years. Dr. Shawn Sharpe with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada in Saskatoon will tell us more.

-- The Canadian Wheat Research Coalition (CWRC) has committed almost 20 million dollars over the next three years to a core breeding agreement with AAFC for the development of field-ready wheat varieties.

-- Ottawa has awarded contracts to vaccine makers, in a step toward the creation of a long-awaited foot-and-mouth disease vaccine bank.