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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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Through a continuing co-funding partnership with the Saskatchewan Ministry of Agriculture - Agriculture Development Fund (ADF), the Canadian Agricultural Partnership, and other producer commodity groups, WGRF is pleased to announce up to $27 Million of new funding for 22 crop-related research…

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Western Grains Research Foundation (WGRF) is pleased to announce a $15,000 per year commitment for graduate scholarship funding at the University of British Columbia (UBC) The scholarship will be available for outstanding graduate students in the Faculty of Land and Food Systems (LFS) whose…

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