“This is a cover crop study,” said Lana Shaw, SERF’s research manager, as she drove a reporter around the farm’s fields, pointing to a rolling field with in-crop weather stations and soil monitors. | Ed White photo

Major U.S. research project conducted in southern Sask.

South East Research Farm conducts cover crop trials for Pepsico and the Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research

REDVERS, Sask. — If research is going to be ground-truthed to make sure it applies to the real world of farming, it needs to be truthed on the kind of ground farmers actually farm. That was probably one of the keys to the South East Research Farm (SERF) landing a major research contract from food […] Read more

Lana Shaw, research manager at the South East Research Farm, must juggle a multitude of contrasting agronomic requirements as she oversees hundreds of trials commissioned by dozens of clients.  |  Ed White photo

Research centre in southern Sask. can do it all

A land base that mimics farming reality allows the South East Research Farm to conduct trials in a variety of conditions

REDVERS, Sask.— The South East Research Farm didn’t locate itself on the most easily farmable land. There are potholes and sloughs and saline patches. The land is undulating and rolling, unlike the stereotypical image of pancake-flat Saskatchewan farmland. Related story: Major U.S. research project conducted in southern Sask. That’s given it a unique set of […] Read more