b'REGIONAL VARIETY TRIALSVarieties of Cereal and Oilseed Crops for AlbertaTHIS ANNUAL PUBLICATION provides information on cereal Winter Triticale, M. Aljarrahand oilseed variety performance in Alberta and northeastern Flax, M. CuttsBritish Columbia. Important agronomic characteristics andSincere thanks are extended to all individuals and disease resistance information is provided for varieties of wheat,organizations who contribute to this publication.barley, oat, rye, triticale, flax and canola. The Alberta Regional Variety Testing program for cereals and flax is coordinated byYield Results and Reportingthe Alberta Regional Variety Advisory Committee (ARVAC)Variety choice should never be based solely on yield and Alberta Agriculture and Forestry (AAF). Funding for theperformance, as it is only one factor that affects net return. The program is provided by: genetic yield potential of a variety is often masked by numerousAlberta Agriculture and Forestry factors, some of which can be controlled through varietyAlberta Wheat Commission choice and others through astute agronomic management.Alberta Barley Commission Producers are encouraged to consider other characteristics suchAlberta Oat Growers Association as maturity, plant height, lodging and disease/pest resistanceAlberta Seed Growers when deciding which varieties to grow. Long-term satisfactionAlberta Seed Processors with a variety is often related to non-yield characteristics. Prairie Oat Growers Association Yield Reporting in 2020 Entry fees for the varieties being testedIn 2018 and 2019, the yield data for CWRS wheat were reported in two formats.In 2020, only the traditional format Data for this publication come from various sources,will be reported as ARVAC reevaluates the best way to report including: head-to-head comparisons.Annual head-to-head comparisonAlberta Agriculture and Forestry tables are likely to reappear in 2021.Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada Producers have asked for additional checks in the regionalBritish Columbia Grain Producers variety trials that reflect more commonly grown varieties. Nutrien Ag Solutions Starting in 2018, two additional varieties were grown asUniversity of Alberta benchmark checks and reflect the two most popular varietiesAlberta Innovates Technology Futures for the crop or within a market class during the previous year,Farming Smarter based on crop insurance data.These checks will change as theSARDA Ag Research popularity of varieties changes. Battle River Research Group (BRRG) Exercise caution when making yield comparisons amongChinook Applied Research Association (CARA) varieties. Variety yield should only be directly compared to theGateway Research Organization (GRO) standard reference check. Actual head-to-head testing betweenLakeland Applied Research Association (LARA) other varieties may not have occurred. Small plot agronomicMcKenzie Applied Research Association (MARA) trials are expensive to grow and new varieties are registeredNorthern Peace Applied Research Association (NPARA) every year. It is simply impractical to grow all varieties at thePrairie Grain Development Committee same time. Following several years of data collection, theCanola Council of Canada yield performance for a particular variety stabilizes relativeLakeland College to the check and further testing is no longer required. It is for these reasons that the check varieties are grown every year The following individuals are the 2019 Regional Variety Trial(e.g. Carberry for CWRS wheat, AC Metcalfe for barley) and and crop specific coordinators:that changes to these checks are infrequent. The OverallRegional Variety Trial Coordinator, A. Fedko Station Years of Testing column provides an indication of theSpring wheat, Drs. H. Randhawa, D. Spaner and S. Strydhorst unbalanced nature of the dataset. Barley, J. Anderson At least eight site-years of yield data collected over two yearsOat, Dr. J. Mitchell-Fetch are required prior to reporting the figures in this publication.Triticale, M. Aljarrah For new varieties, Overall Yield is often the first indicationWinter Wheat, Dr. R. Graf of yield potential relative to the check. As additional dataFall Rye, Dr. R. Ragupathy become available, yield performance is also expressed on the 60seed.ab.ca'