WGRF News

As crop plans are penciled out for the 2023 growing season, there’s a new resource for farmers and agronomists to build a more complete picture of the nutrient requirements of key crops grown across Western Canada Two University of Saskatchewan soil scientists have just put the finishing…

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WGRF Members Update April 2023

WGRF-Member-Update-April-2023Download 2023 Annual General Meeting The WGRF Annual Members’ Meeting was held in Saskatoon on April 4, 2023 The 2022 financial statements were audited by Lingard + Dreger LLP The auditor reported that the audit was clean and that there were no concerns with…

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WGRF Elects New Board Chair

At the first meeting of the new WGRF Board following the 2023 AGM, Laura Reiter of Radisson, Saskatchewan was elected as the new Chair of WGRF Kevin Auch of Carmangay, Alberta was re-elected as the Vice-Chair Laura Reiter, WGRF Board Chair “WGRF has a long history of funding research that…

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WGRF is excited to announce the completion of twelve regional factsheets from the Resilient Rotations project The Resilient Rotations project is part of the Integrated Crop Agronomy Cluster (ICAC) and is and evaluating various crop rotations to help create more productive, sustainable and…

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Building Better Nutrient Knowledge

New spectrometers streamline soil research at University of Saskatchewan The University of Saskatchewan’s Department of Soil Science already sets the international standard for isotope tracing methods – a process used in agricultural research to trace and track the pathways of key soil…

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