Soil scientist wins award

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Published: July 12, 2024

Ag Notes

Jeff Schoenau, a University of Saskatchewan professor and Ministry of Agriculture Strategic Research Program Chair in Soil Nutrient Management, is the first recipient of the Les Henry Award.

Henry, a Saskatchewan soil scientist in and professor emeritus at the U of who died earlier this summer, selected Schoenau in April.

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The award recognizes a recipient in Western Canada who provides excellence in soil and water science and its application in the farming community.

Crop diversification receives funding

Ag-West Bio Inc. will receive up to $8,124,319 in federal funding through the AgriScience Program-Clusters Component, an initiative under the Sustainable Canadian Agricultural Partnership.

It will manage the Diverse Field Crops Cluster, a co-ordinated group of organizations representing small acreage crops with the goal of building capacity and increasing the acreage seeded to diverse crops.

Research activities aim to:

Benchmark the greenhouse gas emissions produced by diverse crops and understand how those emissions are affected by nitrogen fertilizer use.

Further develop new oilseed crops, such as camelina, that are more adapted to production on lower-quality land.

Improve genetic resiliency, yields and disease resistance in rotation crops such as mustard, flax and sunflower.

FPCC member re-appointed

Morgan Moore has been re-appointed to the Farm Products Council of Canada.

Moore a farmer who runs a cow/calf and commercial sheep operation near Brandon, holds a professional agrologist designation with the Manitoba Institute of Agrologists and is an alumnus of the University of Guelph, where he received his bachelor of sciences in agriculture.

He was first appointed in June 2019. His re-appointment is for a term of two years.

Funding supports ag exporters

Group Export Agri-Food Québec-Canada will receive up to $5.5 million in federal funding over three years through the AgriMarketing Program, an initiative under the Sustainable Canadian Agricultural Partnership.

The funding will allow Group Export to support companies entering a foreign market for the first time as well as those currently trading in foreign markets.

Objectives include enabling Canadian companies to promote their agri-food products abroad, securing concrete sales and contracts in their target markets and increasing the value of international agri-food exports in all categories of agri-food products.

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