Work in Progress!
We are in the process of updating this list of SaskBarley-funded research projects.
In the mean time, find research results and barley production resources at BarleyBin.ca.
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Long-term feeding of graded levels of deoxynivalenol in grower-finisher pigs
Dr. Daniel Columbus
SaskBarley’s Investment: $20000
End date: 2020
Objectives: To determine the effect of long term exposure to feeding mycotoxin contaminated diets on growth performance of grower-finisher pigs
Monitoring SOC on commercial direct-seeded fields across Saskatchewan – Phase 4. Compare PSCB Project Results with those from Conventional Small-Plot Experiments
Mervin St. Luce
SaskBarley’s Investment: $10264
End date: 2020
Objectives: Measure SOC change since 1996 for network of commercial farm fields across Saskatchewan
Monitoring SOC on commercial direct-seeded fields across Saskatchewan – Phase 4. Soil Carbon Nature and Permanence Component
Dr. Jeff Schoenau
SaskBarley’s Investment: $10264
End date: 2020
Objectives: Quantify the nature of sequestered soil carbon (C) on 90 Saskatchewan farm fields, to estimate its permanence and potential,
Monitoring SOC on commercial direct-seeded fields across Saskatchewan – Phase 4. Change in SOC at Field Level Component
Brian McConkey
SaskBarley’s Investment: $10264
End date: 2020
Objectives: Gain a better understanding of how nitrogen (N) and C within whole soils and physical fractions of soil organic matter (SOM) in the Brown Chernozem soils in the Prairie Soil Carbon Balance Project (PSCB) responded to 21 years of conservation management practices, and to compare their response to a long-term field experiment in the same soil zone
Control of Japanese brome (Bromus japonicus L.) in barley
Jessica Enns
SaskBarley’s Investment: $55172
End date: 2019
Objectives: 1) To determine crop tolerance to various herbicide combinations and application timing 2) To determine the best herbicide combination and application timing to control Japanese brome 3) Pursue a potential Minor Use Registration for control of Japanese brome in barley
Post Harvest DON reduction Strategies for Canadian Western Spring Wheat, Durum and Barley
Dr. Rex Newkirk
SaskBarley’s Investment: $25000
End date: 2020
Objectives: Examine methods to recover high quality (low DON) wheat and barley from infected seed lots.
FHB screening of CDC barley breeding selections, 2016-2020
Dr. Aaron Beattie
SaskBarley’s Investment: $150000
End date: 2020
Objectives: To evaluate new CDC barley germplasm/ breeding lines for FHB resistance/low DON accumulation. To improve predictive NIR calibrations of barley grain DON content. To evaluate barley lines with a range of tolerance to FHB and DON accumulation to identifying QTL linked to FHB tolerance.
Barley Breeding in Canada – A path forward from 2021
Richard Gray
SaskBarley’s Investment: $23000
End date: 2021
Objectives: To determine the rate of return to the producer and public investment in barley breeding since 1995 when check-off funded research began. To determine how much has the return to barley breeding been reduced by the slow adoption of new varieties by the malting industry. To determine how Canada compares relative to its major competitors in terms of investment in barley breeding and R&D. To determine the future investment needs for barley investment in Canada.