research Archives - Page 3 of 6

Honey-brown discolouration of pea roots, characteristic of Aphanomyces euteiches.

Aphanomyces still a stubborn foe

Research offers hope, but proper crop management remains the best defence for today

By Lee Hart April 23, 2024

In today’s bad news/good news ledger of pulse crop diseases, the bad news is there’s still no quick fix for controlling root rot in field peas and lentils. On the good news side, there are management options that help reduce the risk, research is narrowing in on some treatments that may help control the disease, […] Read more

Crops, General

Feds, producer groups launch wheat research cluster

Government, groups pool more than $20 million in research dollars

By Geralyn Wichers, GFM Network News March 6, 2024

The federal government and private and producer groups announced $20 million toward wheat research today.

Researchers at the University of Saskatchewan’s Livestock and Forage Centre of Excellence want to know if bull neck collars that are supposed to alert producers when they detect cows in heat actually work.

Cattleman’s Corner, Livestock

Automating heat detection

Researchers test whether monitoring technology will predict reproductive cycles

By Glacier FarmMedia staff, Karen Briere February 21, 2024

Glacier FarmMedia — Labour challenges on cattle farms could be alleviated by sensors now being tested to help detect females in heat. Dr. Dinesh Dadarwal, a veterinarian and assistant professor in large animal science at the Western College of Veterinary Medicine, says the Livestock and Forage Centre of Excellence tests technology so producers can make […] Read more

green spring wheat in a demonstration plot

Cereals Production Guide, Crops, Features, Spring Wheat

Field-scale trials with wheat present seeding and yield mystery

Trials see little yield difference by boosting seed count -- but don't plant less

By Glacier FarmMedia staff, Jeff Melchior February 21, 2024

Glacier FarmMedia — Call it an agronomic mystery. It’s been proven time and time again that, barring unforeseen challenges, the more seeds planted, the more crop harvested. But those aren’t the results the Alberta Grains Plot2Farm program has seen in its field-scale trials on spring wheat. Four years of field trials have consistently shown that […] Read more

General, Livestock

National hog research firm gets $10.6 million in federal funds

Research to include new vaccines, antimicrobial alternatives, feed strategies, and genetics

By Geralyn Wichers, GFM Network News February 20, 2024

The federal government has pledged up to $10.6 million for hog sector research, it said in an announcement today.

Variable rate fertilizer being applied during seeding at Steckler Farm in Alberta in 2022. Photo: Courtesy Olds College of Agriculture and Technology

General

Canada pledges funds for efficient fertilizer research

Joining the Efficient Fertilizer Consortium gives Canada chance to influence research strategies, feds say

By Geralyn Wichers, GFM Network News January 31, 2024

Canada will join the U.S., U.K., and others in a group dedicated to advancing efficient and novel fertilizers, the federal government announced today.

Lorne Hepworth (right), pictured here in 2021 accepting the Saskatchewan Order of Merit from Sask. Lieutenant Governor Russ Mirasty. Photo: Brighten Creative Group

General

Hepworth honoured for agricultural achievements

The London, Ont. resident started as a Sask. farmer and vet before moving to politics, then research

By GFM Network News January 2, 2024

Lorne Hepworth, former Saskatchewan agriculture minister and current chair of the Agriculture Research Institute of Ontario, has been named a member of the Order of Canada.

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

Crops, General

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

By Glacier FarmMedia staff, GFM Network News July 26, 2023

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 […] Read more

Features

Resilient rotations

Researchers focus on precipitation use efficiency as a way to assess crop rotations

By Jim Timlick January 17, 2023

While extreme heat and drought made life miserable for farmers in many parts of the Prairies the past few summers, those conditions proved to be something of a silver lining for a group of researchers leading a project called Resilient Rotations. A key area of the study, which aims to develop a new approach to […] Read more

Crops, Machinery, Reuters

China must raise self-reliance in ag tech, Xi says

Seed industry seen as weak link in food chain

By Reuters, GFM Network News December 27, 2022

Beijing | Reuters — President Xi Jinping wants China to accelerate efforts to achieve self-reliance in agricultural technology, identifying seed development and core equipment among areas to focus on, state media reported. The central leadership had said in 2020 that the country’s seed industry was a weak link in the food chain and needed to […] Read more

Alberta crop conditions improve: report

U.S. grains: Corn sets contract lows on expectations for big US crop

U.S. livestock: Cattle strength continues

GFM Network News