THE CWRC has committed over $9.6 million to the Crop Development Centre at the University of Saskatchewan
The percentage increase in yields for both are about the same leaving some to speculate it’s more about demand than genetics or private versus public variety development
The cluster consists of eight research activities ranging from soil health to herbicide resistance and climate change adaptation
A proposal to better compensate cereal breeders will almost certainly cost farmers more either when they buy seed or when they deliver grain to the elevator
The new system will fund both wheat variety development and Cigi, say the provincial wheat groups
Farmers won’t see much difference on the elevator driveway, but what about Cigi and the WGRF?
Canada’s wheat breeding remains almost all public, while other jurisdictions have gone all private or to a mixed model
Making wheat more productive won’t likely boost plantings, but it will help keep the crop in farmers’ rotations, says the WGRF’s Garth Patterson
