Reading Time: 2 minutes Farming Smarter near Lethbridge got a boost to its research equipment, thanks to the Alberta government’s increase in funding for research associations.
Farming Smarter receives financial boost from Alberta government for potato research
Farming Smarter one of 12 research associations receiving part of one-time $3.2 million capital grant
Applied research associations receive $3.2 million in provincial funding
One-time grant from Alberta government to help applied research associations upgrade equipment, facilities and infrastructure
Reading Time: 2 minutes The Government of Alberta announced a grant of $3.2 million avaiable to 12 applied reasearch associations in Alberta to upgrade equipment, facilities and infrastructure.
Alberta research facility gets new lease on life
County of Newell takes over Crop Diversification Centre South and hopes to attract dozens of tenants for the $100 million facility
Reading Time: 4 minutes The County of Newell will spend the summer revitalizing the Crop Diversification Centre South in Brooks, Alberta, after signing a 10-year lease for the facility.
McCain Foods looks for new processing potatoes
Company works with the Farming Smarter Association as it searches for options other than the century-old Russet Burbank variety
Reading Time: 2 minutes McCain Foods has entered into a partnership with the Farming Smarter Association, using one of its commercial plots to do a trial growing four varieties, using six treatments. Hopes are best management practices can be adopted that have better efficiencies, water fertility and pest and disease tolerances than the commonly grown Russet Burbank potato.
Farming Smarter receives financial boost from Alberta government for potato research
Farming Smarter one of 12 research associations getting part of one-time $3.2 million capital grant
Farming Smarter near Lethbridge got a boost to its research equipment, thanks to the Alberta government’s increase in funding for research associations.
Government funding boosts beef cattle genetics research at University of Saskatchewan
A University of Saskatchewan project seeking to unlock the genetic potential of Canadian beef cattle has received a funding boost from the federal and provincial governments.
Canadian Wheat Research Coalition funds AAFC variety development
The Canadian Wheat Research Coalition has pledged nearly $20 million in funding for wheat variety development over the next three years.
Two Chinese researchers accused of smuggling ‘potential agroterrorism weapon’ into U.S.
Fusarium poses threat
U.S. federal prosecutors have accused two Chinese nationals of smuggling a dangerous biological pathogen that had the potential to be used as an agricultural terrorism weapon into the United States for research.
Human diabetes drug can keep hens laying eggs
Metformin improves broiler breeder chickens’ metabolic health as they age say Penn State researchers
Human diabetes drug metformin, which is also used to treat hormonal disorder PCOS in women, can improve the metabolic health of broiler breeder chickens and allow them to lay fertile eggs later in life.
Pigs turn the thermostat down
Study shows when pigs control barn temperatures, they prefer it on the cooler side
Reading Time: 3 minutes A study from the Prairie Swine Centre showed that pigs prefer to keep temperatures lower in the barn when they have control of the thermostat, which helps producers keep their pigs happier and save on their utilities bill.
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