BRANDON, Man. – More of the money farmers pay for wheat and barley breeding may be spent on genetic resistance to leaf disease, midge and fusarium head blight.
Cam Henry, an advisory committee member of the Western Grains Research Foundation, said his group will emphasize these areas to crop researchers.
Henry told a recent meeting of Keystone Agricultural Producers that the foundation’s advisory committee works on five-year plans and 1998 is the start of the next period.
The foundation looks after money collected from farmers from a voluntary checkoff on wheat and barley sales.
