Bayer CropScience renovates
Bayer CropScience has unveiled the improvements it made to its formulation, filling and packaging emulsifiable concentrate facility in Regina.
The company spent $6.5 million to upgrade the facility with new fill and pack lines. They are designed to increase capacity, flexibility and efficiency for future growth opportunities.
DUC, Lakeland team up
Ducks Unlimited Canada and students from Lakeland College teamed up to study the potential for winter wheat.
Ducks Unlimited asked the college’s agricultural sciences students earlier this fall to see if they could reclaim a particularly difficult section of land southwest of Vermilion, Alta.
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Students and Ducks Unlimited seeded the crop in mid-September on 135 acres and report that it is doing well.
The Natural Areas Conservation Program provided funding.
For more information, visit www.growwinterwheat.ca.
Man. funds grain research
Three Manitoba grain research projects recently received $341,000 from the Growing Innovation–AgriFood Research and Development Initiative.
They will explore the health benefits of a range of crops.
The projects include validating food substitutes for cholesterol-lowering drugs, measuring whether eating flaxseed can help people with high blood pressure and breeding buckwheat varieties with new characteristics and health benefits.
Project proponents and other stakeholders will also invest more than $865,700 in the projects.
Risk management research funded
The Guy Carpenter Professorship in Agriculture Risk Management and Insurance at the University of Manitoba has received $500,000 in federal funding.
Dr. Lysa Porth began her role in the position in February. This AgriRisk funding will make $100,000 available to the professorship for five years.
The research will stimulate innovative risk management policy, new private sector risk management and insurance initiatives.
