The 2023 Great Canadian Small Farm Seed Poll starts next week

May 01, 2023

Every year Small Farm Canada magazine publishes a seed guide and directory with information relevant to farmers, homesteaders, gardeners and growers across Canada.

To continue in that quest, we are polling our readers to put on their seed buying hat so we can find out the how, where and why of seed acquisition in 2023.

Do you save your own seed? Are you looking for specialized or regionally grown seed? Are you looking to serve a specific end-use or market with your seed acquisition?

SFC is taking a deeper look with the Great Canadian Small Farm Seed Poll, while this season’s seed acquisition journey is still fresh. The poll will consist of three poll questions over three weeks in May starting May 10th.

Go online and on socials to be included in the 2023 Great Canadian Small Farm Seed Poll.

For more on opportunities to save, raise and conserve on your small farm, homestead or property, subscribe here and get Small Farm Canada delivered straight to your door!

Source : Small Farm Canada

Video: New research chair appointed to accelerate crop variety development

Funded by Sask Wheat, the Wheat Pre-Breeding Chair position was established to enhance cereal research breeding and training activities in the USask Crop Development Centre (CDC) by accelerating variety development through applied genomics and pre-breeding strategies.

“As the research chair, Dr. Valentyna Klymiuk will design and deploy leading-edge strategies and technologies to assess genetic diversity for delivery into new crop varieties that will benefit Saskatchewan producers and the agricultural industry,” said Dr. Angela Bedard-Haughn (PhD), dean of the College of Agriculture and Bioresources at USask. “We are grateful to Sask Wheat for investing in USask research as we work to develop the innovative products that strengthen global food security.”

With a primary focus on wheat, Klymiuk’s research will connect discovery research, gene bank exploration, genomics, and breeding to translate gene discovery into improved varieties for Saskatchewan’s growing conditions.