Research Initiatives

Research Initiatives

SaskBarley has invested the research initiatives featured on this page. Click the Learn More option to view more details on individual projects.

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

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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

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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,

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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

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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