The wheat midge survey consists of soil sampling (approximately 420 to 450 sites during September and October) followed by processing and analysis to be completed by the end of December. The data from the survey is used to create a forecast map of risk to wheat midge for the following growing season. Intended release date is for Crop Production Week in Saskatoon in early January.
Read MoreThe export basis and freight rate data can be used to estimate how export basis rents are distributed between railways and grain handlers in a deregulated rate environment, which in turn has a large impact on the pricing and the service incentives of railways.
Read MoreIn this project, SVPG is collecting additional data in the variety performance trials on priority traits including maturity, height, lodging, test weight, thousand kernel weight and wheat midge, to enhance the available data set and to provide farmers with more productive information on farming decisions.
Read MorePresently, oviposition deterrence is the only other known host mechanism for managing wheat midge. This study will also provide the knowledge needed to rapidly and efficiently utilize that type of resistance in Canadian breeding programs.
Read MoreThe goal of this project is to develop a simple, inexpensive, paper-based test for mycotoxins that could be used at the farm or grain elevator with minimal training or resources.
Read MoreIn this project, the researchers will evaluate chaff collection in combination with other cultural weed management techniques at several sites to control problem weeds in Western Canada.
Read MoreThis project is expected to improve the understanding of the genetics of stripe rust resistance in Western Canada and facilitate development of stripe rust resistant wheat cultivars.
Read MoreThis research intends to facilitate the breeding and development of pedigreed seed of improved varieties of Canada Western Amber Durum. The project is intended to support the development of the various traits and qualities of durum under development by this breeding program using genomic and phenomic tools.
Read MoreThis research builds on the application of a powerful combination of advanced genomics approaches and a newly available Can-NAM resource, allowing detection of novel alleles with high resolution and high-precision, thus enabling the rapid delivery of outcomes to the breeding program and facilitating cultivar release.
Read MoreThe researchers intend to develop new innovative tools and gene targets functioning in photosynthetic efficiency, which will help and benefit Canadian wheat breeding efforts to improve yield in this crop.
Read MoreThe aim of this project will be to determine if synthetic dsRNA can be used for the control and prevention of FHB in wheat.
Read MoreBy accelerating the genetic gains of AAFC and U of S breeding programs, this research will contribute to the goal of establishing Saskatchewan and the Canadian prairies as leaders in cereal crop R&D to ultimately provide producers with greater farm income as varietal productivity per acre increases.
Read MorePreservation of grain quality during storage is critically important to producers as it directly affects their profitability. The economic losses resulting from grain spoilage during storage are difficult to quantify as little reliable data is available.
Read MoreThe objectives of this project are to identify wheat germplasm with new sources of fusarium head blight (FHB) resistance by screening a world collection of Triticum aestivum accessions, and to identify novel alleles for FHB resistance from a synthetic hexaploidy wheat population.
Read MoreDurum wheat comprises between 16 to 20% of the area seeded to wheat in Canada every year and is used for pasta and couscous. The project will identify fusarium species and toxins produced from FHB infected spring and durum wheat from the 2014 epidemic.
Read MoreThe program has been very successful over the past four years and has developed a solid relationship with industry and growers alike. This has led to sustained funding from industry for the herbicide efficacy research conducted by the program and it is expected to continue with this client base into the future.
Read MoreThis work will explore the specific nature of the nutrient limitations on long-term organically managed systems, by adding nitrogen and phosphorus fertilizers as well as extra crop residues to identify the most limiting factors to crop growth and microbial activity.
Read MoreRecent studies have evaluated crop responses to granular phosphorus fertilizer placed in the seed-row, as well as banded, and broadcast. However, few, if any studies have evaluated the efficiency and fate of foliar applied P fertilizers under western Canadian conditions in the field.
Read MoreThe purpose of this project is to develop CWRS-quality wheat lines and eventually cultivars that yield 10% or higher than relevant check cultivars with disease resistance required for organic production systems.
Read MoreRust, including stem rust, stripe rust and leaf rust, cause significant yield losses worldwide. Breeding new wheat varieties with genetic resistance is the most practical and effective approach to control these diseases.
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