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Canola breeding has come a long way since Canadian researchers isolated and bred low erucic acid Brassica napus plants in the 1970s. Canadian canola growers have benefitted from the introduction of herbicide-resistant traits, as well as specialty oil, drought tolerance, season length and, of course, ever-increasing yield.
When producers go out to their cattle in late winter or early spring and see them itching, or with bald patches, their mind usually thinks lice infestation. Sometimes they run them through and give the cattle insecticide treatment, or have their veterinarian examine them.
At Livestock Gentec, researchers begin each project the same way — with a road trip. They head out of the city, gathering at farm gates and kitchen tables to ask Canadian livestock producers one question: “What keeps you up at night?”
As highlighted in the articles Looking Back and Here and Now, Alberta’s agriculture sector is constantly adapting and innovating to meet new challenges. By leveraging emerging technologies like genomics, crop and livestock producers have improved yield and disease resilience and have begun to tackle solutions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and address climate change. Alongside these technological advances are huge advances in information and big data.
Sabine Banniza’s accomplishments as a researcher are making waves as she envisions a country whose pea and lentil crops are resistant to root rot.
Many generations of flea beetles have been exposed to neonicotinoids in Western Canada over the last two decades.
A project to increase the use of data in cow-calf operation decision-making has brought together organizations and researchers from across the sector.
The Whole Sounder Trapping Incentive Program ended March 31, 2024 bringing the modified bounty component of the program to a close (the Ear Bounty Program ended March 31, 2023). For farmers experiencing wild boar damage to their fields, wild boar are included in the AFSC Wildlife Damage Compensation Program.
Field tests across the Prairies have identified a new star in the world of forage barley: AB Maximizer.
Recent reports coming out of the U.S. of avian influenza virus (H5N1) being found in cattle has been garnering attention. First noted in mid-March as a “mystery illness” when a handful of dairy farms saw a drop in milk production and low appetite amongst some of their herd, traction on this story has grown as additional states began reporting cases.