Cereals and Pulses / Oilseeds / Agro-ecosystem Resilience

Successful solutions

• Integrated agronomic, pest management and genetic factors to enhance malt barley yield and quality;
• Assessed the productivity, quality and economic impacts of crop and pest management strategies in multiple cropping systems.
• Developed management practices for canola production (reduced nitrogen use; cropping system recommendation, mitigate the impacts of canola diseases).
• Partnered with Province and industry to register eight Minor Use herbicides for forage seed production.
• Released pea varieties for export markets adapted to the Parkland region and the black soil zone.