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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.

Round-Up recap, OFCAF extended to 2028, CWD forum, new funding calls, and more.

Round-Up recap, OFCAF extended to 2028, 2024 tax receipts, and more.

Many generations of flea beetles have been exposed to neonicotinoids in Western Canada over the last two decades.

June 18, 2024 - Lethbridge, AB – RDAR is pleased to announce that Dr. Chandra Singh has become an RDAR-funded Research Chair to continue his research and tenure at Lethbridge College through 2029.

Linking Producers with Research

June 3, 2024 - Edmonton, AB – RDAR is delivering $2.2M to Livestock Gentec, in funding that is cost-shared by the federal and provincial governments under the Sustainable Canadian Agricultural Partnership. This investment will drive the adoption of tools that will improve the genetic selection of beef cattle and power economic and environmentally positive changes within Alberta’s livestock sector.

A project to increase the use of data in cow-calf operation decision-making has brought together organizations and researchers from across the sector.