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Wednesday, December 31, 2025
2022-2026

Annual crop systems can be optimized with the addition of cover crops. By terminating the cover crops at the right time, you can provide your cash crop with an extra source of organic matter, wind cover, with an edge in weed competition.

Thursday, May 1, 2025
2021-2025

This study will clearly identify the risks and benefits (in terms of crop stand establishment, yield, and quality) associated with ultra-early plantings of CWAD in western Canada over a wide range of climatic conditions, including dormant-seeded situations.

Wednesday, December 31, 2025
2022-2026

In response to growing interest of cover crops, we have begun a 4-year project investigating the viability, management, and benefits of their adoption. While it is known that cover crops have many benefits for erosion control and weed suppression, we want to explore the lengths of their benefits for your soil.

Monday, March 31, 2025
2022-2025

Farmer yields are managed by balancing cultivar selection and agronomic practices. We hypothesize that feed barley yields could be improved by adopting new cultivars and improved agronomic practices.

Tuesday, December 31, 2024
2022-2024

Land rollers are commonly used to push rocks into the soils and improve harvest operation during silage crop production. Other benefits of land rolling

Sunday, March 31, 2024
2020 - 2024

Extended grazing is a key component of many beef operations increasingly cow-calf operations in western Canada use corn grazing in late fall/early winter. Benefits include increased yield, energy content, and increased average daily gain for late fall/early winter grazing of pregnant cows. However, pure stands of corn are low in dietary crude protein thus unsuitable for grazing of other classes of cattle with higher nutrient requirements.

Saturday, February 3, 2024
2020-2023

This study proposes to test the efficiency of management practices including strip tillage and precision planting in managing crop residues and improving canola emergence, growth, and yield.

Sunday, December 31, 2023
2019-2023

Biostimulants are a relatively new class of crop additive that are suggested to promote healthy growth of crops resulting in higher yield/quality crops. Their use has expanded after the changes in regulations on fertilizers in Canada

Sunday, December 31, 2023
2019-2022

Canada and the U.S. produce approximately 86 MMT of wheat per year. Still, grain yield in both countries rarely surpasses 50 bu/ac. This project aims to identify the management practices that contribute to higher yields.

Sunday, December 31, 2023
2017-2023

This project will evaluate the viability, impact, and benefits of including cover crops in crop rotations across Prairie Canada (including MB, SK, and AB).

Sunday, December 31, 2023
2019-2023

Precision planters are typically used to seed conventional row crops such as corn or soybeans, however producers are experimenting with them to plant small grains and other crops.

Monday, July 31, 2023
2022-2023

Industrial hemp has emerged as an important multi-purpose end-use crop with a strong and growing market demand in Alberta. The lack of effective strategies for proper management of weeds is one of the major challenges to hemp producers in Alberta.

Sunday, December 31, 2023
2022-2023

An exploratory project initiated spring of 2022 to evaluate feasibility of upland rice production in southern Alberta.

Saturday, December 31, 2022
2018-2022

Fusarium head blight (FHB) has become a major limitation to cereal crop production across much of the prairies in recent years, particularly for bread and durum wheat growers, and the disease is also impacting barley growers.

Saturday, December 31, 2022
2018-2022

This project combines seeding rate and date trials that were separate in the first project to study their interaction effects. The fertility trial determines the optimum rate and timing of fertilizer to maximum hemp fiber and grain yield.

Monday, February 28, 2022
2019-2022

This project allowed Farming Smarter to build a large-scale biobed to biofilter rinsate generated from our research activities.

Friday, December 31, 2021
2018-2021

This study determines if the periodic deep banded application of immobile nutrients (P, K & Cu) can reduce nutrient stratification while improving nutrient uptake and crop production on land previously under direct seeding for >10 years.

Friday, December 31, 2021
2018-2023

The development of high value specialty crops is crucial for a diversified and robust agricultural industry in Canada. It is very important for on-farm profitability and is a key driver for value added industries.

Friday, December 31, 2021
2018-2021

The goal of the Canola Performance Trials (CPT) is to evaluate currently available commercial canola seed varieties available to farmers.

Thursday, December 31, 2020
2019-2020

This project experimented with using pollinator sanctuaries on marginal lands to address the serious decline in bee populations experienced in recent decades. Pollinators help numerous crops like canola, clovers, alfalfa.

Tuesday, March 31, 2020
2019-2020

Detector dogs have even been used to detect infections, pests or diseases by their unique scents. This project evaluated the potential to use canines to detect clubroot in fields in southern Alberta.

Tuesday, December 31, 2019
2016-2018

Hailstorms can be responsible for significant economic loss to the agricultural sector in Alberta, Canada. Foliar applications of certain fungicides and nutrient blends have been advocated to promote recovery and yield of hail-damaged crop

Monday, December 31, 2018
2016-2018

Hailstorms can be responsible for significant economic loss to the agricultural sector in Alberta, Canada. Foliar applications of certain fungicides and nutrient blends have been advocated to promote recovery and yield of hail-damaged crop

Sunday, December 31, 2017
2014-2017

Short Grass Ranches in the Medicine Hat area found he could graze cattle from late October to early spring on his winter wheat and still have the winter wheat produce a crop the following season.

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