WGRF News

Through a continuing co-funding partnership with the Agriculture Development Fund (ADF) and other producer commodity groups, Western Grains Research Foundation (WGRF) is pleased to announce over $24 Million of new funding for 13 crop-related research projects “Our organization is driven by the…

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              The Canadian National Wheat, Barley, and Diverse Field Crop AgriScience Clusters were announced earlier today by the Honourable Laurence MacAulay, Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food(AAFC) “WGRF is pleased to announce…

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The Organic Science Cluster III (OSCIII) was announced earlier today by the Honourable Laurence MacAulay, Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada The OCSIII cluster is being led by the Organic Federation of Canada (OFC) in collaboration with the Organic Agriculture Centre of Canada…

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“WGRF is very proud to be leading the newly established Integrated Crop Agronomy Cluster,” says Terry Young, WGRF Board Chair “The $63 million announced today by Minister MacAulay, combined with the investment from WGRF ($16 million), and other industry partners ($11 million) accounts for…

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WGRF held its Annual Members Meeting on April 5, 2018 in Calgary Alberta Garth Patterson, WGRF Executive Director, reported that WGRF successfully completed year one of its four-year transition plan (2017 to 2020) WGRF invested over $17 million into variety development, production and post…

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