People visit crop plots at Discovery Farm Woodstock during Canada’s Outdoor Farm Show. Photo: Canada’s Outdoor Farm Show

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


An artist’s rendering of the Prairie Crops and Soils Research Facility at the University of Manitoba. Photo: University of Manitoba

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

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

Potato scab is unsightly, consumers don’t want it and it results in more food waste.

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

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?

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