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Crop Specific Research
Select a crop below to view all related research projects.
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Start Date: 2023
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Completion Date: 2026
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Project Status: Ongoing
Wheat makes an annual contribution of approximately $11 billion to the Canadian economy. Diseases, particularly Fusarium head blight (FHB) and rusts are major threat to wheat production in Canada. Among rust diseases, stripe rust is becoming a major issue since… Read More
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Start Date: 2023
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Completion Date: 2026
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Project Status: Ongoing
In Western Canada, wheat is the cereal crop with the largest acerage; however, increasingly variable climate conditions and stress suchs as drought can affect plant development, yield and profitability for growers. This places more ephasis ondeveloping tolerant varieties with high… Read More
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Start Date: 2024
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Completion Date: 2027
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Project Status: Ongoing
Climate change is increasing spring air temperature variation, we are seeing greater swings in temperature which can make spring growth difficult and risky. Genes for cold soil emergence and seedling growth are needed in Manitoba corn hybrids to hasten emergence,… Read More
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Start Date: 2023
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Completion Date: 2026
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Project Status: Ongoing
Oilseed sunflowers are used in bird food and the crushing industry for sunflower oil, producing one of the highest quality vegetable oils. Sunflower meal usually contains 35% of protein and is used in livestock feed. The main research gap to… Read More
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Start Date: 2023
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Completion Date: 2028
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Project Status: Ongoing
This project is a continuation of the previously funded prairie crop disease monitoring network that was funded as part of the ICAC cluster from 2018-2023. This project will emphasize further development and refinement of the PCDMN, including developing new methods… Read More
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Start Date: 2023
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Completion Date: 2026
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Project Status: Ongoing
Weed persistence and herbicide resistance are significant challenges for crop production in the prairies. Over the years,many crop production and weed management strategies focused on reducing the abundance of weeds by controlling their above-ground presence. All the success and failures… Read More
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Start Date: 2023
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Completion Date: 2028
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Project Status: Ongoing
Tile drainage is in early stages of adoption in the undulating landscapes in southwestern Manitoba as a practice to manage excess soil moisture and soil salinity in agricultureal fields. It is anticipated that tile drainage will quickly become a prominent… Read More
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Start Date: 2023
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Completion Date: 2028
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Project Status: Ongoing
Interest in adopting cover crops has been growing in Manitoba. Goals for growing cover crops on Prairie farms had expanded to include improving soil health, building soil carbon, adding and scavenging nitrogen, grazing, improving water infiltration, weed suppression, elevating soil… Read More
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Start Date: 2023
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Completion Date: 2026
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Project Status: Ongoing
Enhanced Efficiency Fertilizers (EEFs) are emerging as a solution to improve N use efficiency and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, yet their interactions with other agricultural practices and microbial processes remains. Research has found that EEFs function less efficiently in wheat… Read More