WGRF News

To make winter wheat more attractive to the Canadian wheat value chain, plant breeding efforts to improve end-use quality were undertaken to increase demand, prices and ultimately, acreage Over the past 20 years, major progress in yield, agronomics and disease resistance has been achieved in…

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In January 2018 the Crop Development Centre (CDC) oat breeding program lost funding from its primary industry funder as a result of re-evaluation of priorities within that company  In response to this, Western Grains Research Foundation (WGRF) was able to provide emergency bridge funding to the…

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