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Cold plasma shows promise as seed treatment
Fourth state of matter showed to slow growth of fall armyworm, boost plant development
Crop Production Show 2025: Ag research sector has productivity problem: panellists
Saskatchewan deputy agriculture minister Bill Greuel said the Canadian agriculture research sector has a productivity problem during an agriculture research panel discussion held Tuesday in Saskatoon as part of Crop Production Week 2025.
Government funds soybean climate-change resistance research
Performance Plants Inc. (PPI) is getting a multi-year federal funding boost through the AgriScience Program – Projects Component. Over four years, the agricultural biotechnology developer will receive $2,325,361 to develop a high-yielding, climate change-resistant soybean and enable field testing.
Feds, producer groups launch wheat research cluster
Government, groups pool more than $20 million in research dollars
The federal government and private and producer groups announced $20 million toward wheat research today.
Discovery Farm Woodstock joins Pan-Canadian Smart Farm Network
The research site joins its Saskatchewan counterpart on the initiative’s roster
Glacier FarmMedia’s eastern Discovery Farm has joined the locations that share data and research through Old’s College’s Pan-Canadian Smart Farm Network. The 330-acre Ontario site is the host of various demonstration research projects and Canada’s Outdoor Farm Show. It was established as the permanent home for the show in 2020. “The objective is to provide
Feds, Manitoba pledge $6.4M to ag research facility
The new facility will modernize crop and soil research and training at the University of Manitoba
The Federal and Manitoba governments have thrown their weight behind development of a facility touted to become Canada’s pre-eminent resource for field crop research. “A great deal of our agriculture industry’s success comes from research and skill development,” said federal ag minister Marie-Claude Bibeau in a news release, Tuesday. Bibeau and Derek Johnson, Manitoba’s minister
Pulse Growers continues research focus
Lower revenue, director elections also key themes of MPSG annual meeting
Agronomy and research continue to be the core focus of the Manitoba Pulse and Soybean Growers, the group’s annual meeting heard last week. “Quite simply, it’s in the field that our growers find the majority of their challenges,” Daryl Domitruk, MPSG’s executive director, told the online event. MPSG was forced to go virtual when the
Unsightly tubers hard to sell
Researchers close in on scab-resistant potatoes
A research project by Agriculture and Agri-Food scientists hopes to develop genetic resistance to a chronic disease in Canada’s potato crops. The project by AAFC researchers in Prince Edward Island aims at identifying precise genes responsible for resistance to common scab disease in some potato varieties so breeders can use them in developing new resistant
Potential clubroot control shows promise in the lab
The next phase is greenhouse testing followed by field trials
Saskatoon-based MustGrow Biologics Corp. is working on a product derived from mustard seed it says will potentially control clubroot, a yield-robbing canola disease currently without chemical control. It has infected thousands of acres in Alberta and is spreading in Saskatchewan and Manitoba. “In the lab we are seeing 100 per cent control (of clubroot spores),” MustGrow’s chief operating officer Colin
Has COVID-19 nixed AAFC’s 2020 research program?
With spring seeding underway Prairie wheat and cereal commissions are urging AAFC to find ways to do some of its research, while keeping staff safe
It could be the lost year for agriculture research in Canada. Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) says its research could be sidelined by COVID-19 this year. But the Prairie wheat and barley commissions that invest millions of dollars in that work are urging the federal department to reconsider and continue important projects. Why it matters: A disruption in research will mean
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