SaskCanola invests in new canola research, launches website and seeks farmer feedback
The Saskatchewan Canola Development Commission (SaskCanola) has committed $825,000 to 9 research projects funded under the Canola Agronomic Research Program (CARP) in 2022.
“Proposals are reviewed by the grower association research committees,” says Keith Fournier, SaskCanola Research Chair, “so the research projects that receive funding are chosen by farmers for farmers, with an ultimate end goal of the results maintaining canola’s competitiveness and increasing on-farm profitability.”
These research projects range from 1 to 5 years in duration. A complete list of projects, including researchers and SaskCanola’s investment, is as follows:
• Continue monitoring L. maculans populations following the introduction of new resistance genes (Dr. Gary Peng, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada) - $94,000
• Drought tolerance in Canola through modulating a novel gene family (Dr. Jitao Zou, National Research Council) - $55,711
• Updating the Critical Weed Free period in canola (Dr. Rob Gulden, University of Manitoba) - $87,477
• Meta-analysis of small plot trials to examine the relationship between crop development and environmental conditions (Christiane Catellier, IHARF) - $7,500
• Generation of canola lines with increased heat and drought tolerance (Dr. Guanqun (Gavin) Chen) - $137,229
• Balancing economics, action, and seed production for glyphosate-resistant kochia in canola (Dr. Charles Geddes, AAFC) - $82,500
• Climate change resilience of Prairie oilseed crops and their below-ground microbiota under drought (Dr. Tim Dumonceaux, AAFC) - $167,200
• Deploying disease signal pathways to fight canola pathogens (Dr. Jaqueline Monahan, Queen’s University) - $131,404
• Climate-smart canola: quantifying soil- and fertilizerderived nitrogen sources and greenhouse gas emissions (Dr. Melissa Arcand, University of Saskatchewan) - $62,038 About CARP: CARP is funded by the three provincial canola grower organizations – Alberta Canola, SaskCanola and the Manitoba Canola Growers, and is administered by the Canola Council of Canada (CCC). Additional funds were provided by the Western Grains Research Foundation and Results Driven Agricultural Research, enabling even greater innovation and discovery. CARP supports canola agronomic research focused on increasing yield and profitability, reducing production risk, and enhancing sustainability. Canola Council of Canada announced the funding of all CARP projects late last week. The total investment into 2022 CARP projects is over $3.2 million.
In addition to this latest round of research commitments, SaskCanola:
• launched a brand-new website today with an enhanced research results database to improve accessibility and usability of the data for farmers;
• and is encouraging farmers to provide feedback on research priorities for an opportunity to win a $500 vacation package. Click here to learn more!
SaskCanola is a producer-led organization, established in 1991 and supported by 20,000 levy-paying Saskatchewan canola producers. SaskCanola’s mandate is to grow producer prosperity by providing value to canola producers through research investments and communication to growers, consumers, and government.