If you like the fact you have a lot of wheat and barley varieties to choose from when you plan out a cropping season, give yourself a pat on the back – you helped make it happen. Since 1995, the WGRF has invested over $90 million in wheat and barley variety development through partnerships with
Producer investment drives wheat and barley success
The WGRF is celebrating 35 years of supporting research
Tax credit for research checkoffs
The federal government annually provides a Scientific Research and Experimental Development (SR&ED) tax credit to producers offering them a tax credit on their checkoff investments. The tax credit percentage for producers who contributed to the Wheat and Barley Checkoff, administered by the Western Grains Research Foundation in 2012 is 85 per cent for wheat and
Wheat and barley varietal research benefits producers
Arecent return-on-investment study commissioned by the Western Grains Research Foundation (WGRF) has estimated that investment in wheat and barley varietal research is providing producers with a very high return. This study calculates that on average every producer checkoff dollar invested into wheat varietal research has returned $20.40 in value to the producer. Barley varietal research
New Scholarship Supports Budding Grains And Oilseeds Researchers
The Western Grains Research Foundation (WGRF) Endowment Fund is pleased to announce that a graduate scholarship has been established. Starting in June of 2011 WGRF will be providing $100,000 a year towards graduate scholarships at the three Prairie universities. This scholarship will help and encourage top students to further their studies in crop research. WGRF
WGRF Approves $3.8-Million Breeding Tools Initiative
Western Grains Research Foundation (WGRF) has approved an Endowment Fund Directed Research Program fund of $3.8 million over the next five years for an initiative to develop genomic tools, increase genomic capacity, and enhance the use of doubled haploid in cereal crop-breeding programs. Most Canadian breeding programs already utilize some doubled haploid and genomic technology.
Phytotron Garners WGRF Support
The University of Saskatchewan has received a $1-million investment from Western Grains Research Foundation (WGRF) for the College of Agriculture and Bioresources’ Phytotron Renewal Project. The Phytotron is an indispensable tool in plant and soil science research and teaching in the College of Agriculture and Bioresources. The controlled environment plant growth facility enables three full
And The Winner Is…
Seed of the Year is proud to announce AC Metcalfe, a two-row malting barley variety, as the winner of Seed of the Year -West. AC Metcalfe, developed by Bill Legge at AAFC Brandon, received full registration in 1997, and was an advance in agronomic, disease resistance and quality traits in a two-row malting barley variety.
Supporting Research Lowers Your Taxes
The federal government annually provides a Scientific Research and Experimental Development (SR&ED) tax credit to producers offering them money back on their checkoff investments. The tax credit percentage for producers who contributed to the Wheat and Barley Checkoff (administered by the Western Grains Research Foundation) in 2009 are 83 per cent for wheat and 76
Barley Flour Makes Fantastic Tortillas
If it takes a proven health claim to gain consumer acceptance of barley-based food products, then that’s what Nancy Ames plans to do. Ames, a cereal grain research scientist with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada in Winnipeg, used funding from the Western Grains Research Foundation’s Endowment Fund to develop new food uses for barley. “It started
Pea Starch Project Improves Food Safety – for Oct. 8, 2009
Researchers at the University of Manitoba have produced bioactive edible films and coatings from yellow field pea starch to improve food quality and safety. Jung Han with the university’s department of food science says his main goal was to make a bioactive material delivery matrix – a neutral food-grade material – that could contain or
Cyber-Savvy Farmer
