An international consortium of scientists co-led by the University of Saskatchewan has been able to crack the code for understanding the order of about 90 per cent of the highly complex genome of bread wheat, the most widely grown cereal in the world. “This new...
With a solid sugar beet industry, Taber, Alta., and the surrounding area is home to more than 200 sugar beet producers. Sugar beet cyst nematode is controlled mainly by crop rotation in southern Alberta, which seems to hold population numbers at a low level that is...
The process of plant breeding can be a long and complicated one, but we talk to three experts who boil it all down. Every crop a farmer grows originally came not from a seed, but from an idea. The process from the beginning of a new plant variety to when it’s...
Syngenta Canada launches a new co-pack, Apron Maxx with Intego, for western Canadian pulse growers looking to control seed and soil-borne diseases including Fusarium, Pythium and Rhizoctonia and address growing concerns posed by Aphanomyces root rot. Aphanomyces...
Alberta Agriculture has just released the Cropping Alternatives tool for 2016. In this short podcast, Rawlin Thangaraj, a crops economist with Alberta Agriculture, updates growers on the new version of the software based crop budgeting tool. Go here to...
