Lethbridge Research and Development Centre
The Lethbridge Research and Development Centre (Lethbridge RDC) was established in 1906 in Lethbridge, Alberta. It is one the largest facilities within Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada's (AAFC) network of 20 research and development centres.
The Centre is associated with one satellite location: Vauxhall Research Farm.
Areas of Research
The Lethbridge RDC leads research on beef cattle production systems (health and welfare, food safety, microbiology); crop production (agronomy, breeding, genetics, pathology) and sustainable production systems under dryland and irrigated conditions associated with farming in a semi-arid climate.
Research activities focus on supporting the long-term competitiveness of the sector while reducing the environmental footprint of agricultural practices and maintaining the health and productivity of the agro-ecosystem.
Sector Needs
The Lethbridge RDC supports innovative research, development, technology and knowledge transfer activities related to the following AAFC Science Sector Strategies:

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Publications
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Liyanage, D.W.K., Yevtushenko, D.P., Konschuh, M., Bizimungu, B., Lu, Z.X. (2021). Processing strategies to decrease acrylamide formation, reducing sugars and free asparagine content in potato chips from three commercial cultivars, 119 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.foodcont.2020.107452
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Snow, V, Stephens, E.C., Martin, G., van
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Owens, J.L., Thomas, B.W., Stoeckli, J.L., Beauchemin, K.A., McAllister, T.A., Larney, F.J., Hao, X. (2020). Greenhouse gas and ammonia emissions from stored manure from beef cattle supplemented 3-nitrooxypropanol and monensin to reduce enteric methane emissions, 10(1), http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-75236-w
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Soil Biodiversity: What's most important?
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By Katelyn Lutes and Benjamin Ellert
Illustrated by Katelyn Lutes
18 pages; color illustrations
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Backmeyer, S., K.D. Floate and C. Goater. Assessing the non-target effects of LongRange® eprinomectin on dung-breeding insects. 68th Annual Meeting of the Entomological Society of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, October 22-23 [videoconference]
2020 - View publication details
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Conference proceedings
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Wijekoon, C., Singer, S.D., Weselake, R.J., Petrie, J.R., Chen, G., Singh, S., Eastmond, P.J., Acharya, S.N. (2020). Downregulation of key genes involved in carbon metabolism in Medicago truncatula results in increased lipid accumulation in vegetative tissue, 60(4), 1798-1808. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/csc2.20124
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An, H., Owens, J., Stoeckli, J., Hao, X., Beres, B., Li, Y. (2020). Nitrous oxide emissions following split fertilizer application on winter wheat grown on Mollisols of Southern Alberta, Canada, 21 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.geodrs.2020.e00272
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Carcamo, H.A. Beres, B., Wu, Xiuhua, Larson, T., Schwinghamer. 2020. Effect of plant density on wheat stem sawfly sex ratio. Frontiers in Agronomy, In Press.
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https://wcds.ualberta.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/57/2020/03/p107-118-Schwartzkopf-Genswein-WCDS2020-TransportingCattleIn2020.pdf
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