Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
The governments of Canada and Manitoba are investing $326,688 in several innovative research projects aimed at strengthening the agriculture and agri-food industries, through the Ag Action Manitoba program under the Canadian Agricultural Partnership, federal Agriculture and Agri-Food Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau and Manitoba Agriculture Minister Derek Johnson announced today.
Today's announcement includes funding for promising projects focussed on grain innovation and crop production. They include:
- Manitoba Pulse and Soybean Growers Inc.
- Development and evaluation of a fully-automated, made-in-Manitoba rover for the rapid collection of environmental data to improve soybean adaptation to drought conditions; purchase of specialized lab equipment for crop protein research; develop the carbon footprint of typical pulse and soybean production in Manitoba and assess alternatives to reduce carbon intensity
- Ducks Unlimited
- Maximizing the potential of high-yielding winter wheat in Manitoba
- Manitoba Crop Alliance Inc.
- Grain dryer efficiency
- Manitoba Horticulture Productivity Enhancement Centre Inc.
- Improvements to the soils of Manitoba's potato industry through decreasing wind erosion and variable rate irrigation
- University of Manitoba
- Noxious Amaranthus weed (pigweed) identification using molecular markers; using genome editing of functional genes in Brassicas napus to advance plant resistance to environmental conditions
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