Long-term funding from Can-Oat Milling will help the Crop Development Centre of the University of Saskatchewan put more groat in the oats.
Can-Oat Milling of Portage la Prairie, Man., will provide $10,000 a year to assist oat research.
Brian Rossnagel, oat breeder at the crop development centre, said the money will help pay to hire students to increase the amount of field work in the summer and to do quality screening.
The program has two oats lines in the second year of co-op testing, Rossnagel said.
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“They look promising. They have good milling yield and reasonably good performance in terms of comparisons to the checks and they could be released in 1999,” he said.
Both contain more groat and less hull.
Variety characteristics
One is earlier maturing than Derby and has higher protein. The other new variety yields higher than Derby, matures earlier and has good milling quality.
In the past, the centre released Calibre and Derby and more recently has released CDC Boyer and CDC Pacer.
Can-Oat expects to open an oats groat mill north of Saskatoon at Martensville on Dec. 19.
