Research Events

Canola Science Cluster Research Meeting

Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Canola Science Cluster Research Results Meeting Agenda (PDF)

Canola Research Summit Materials

Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Canola Research Summit Agenda (PDF)
Canola Research Summit Program Book (PDF)
Canola Research Summit Proceedings (PDF)
Summary of Table Discussion Notes (PDF)
Presentations from the Meeting Chairs (PDF)

• Lifecycle Analysis Canola Biodiesel – Don O’Connor, (S&T)² Consultants Inc.
• Prairie Rotation Report - Current Situation and Trend - Anastasia Kubinec (MAFRI) and Murray Hartman (AAFRD)
• Legume Crop before Canola – Dr. John O’Donovan, AAFC, Lacombe
• Managing Sclerotinia in Canola – Dr. Randy Kutcher, AAFC, Melfort
• Managing Flea Beetles in Canola – Dr. Julie Soroka, AAFC, Saskatoon
• Update on Cutworms in Canola – Dr. John Gavloski, MAFRI
• Managing Multiple Insect Populations in Canola - Cabbage Seed Pod Weevil and Lygus – Dr. Hector Carcamo, AAFC, Lethbridge and Dr. Lloyd Dosdall, University of Alberta
• Improving Canola Stand Establishment – Dr. Neil Harker, AAFC Lacombe
• Current Canola Emergence Issues – Dr. Yantai Gan, AAFC, Swift Current
• ESN and N rate effects on N₂O emissions, weeds, and canola yield – Dr. Robert Blackshaw, AAFC, Lethbridge
• New Developments in Crop Nutrition Research for Canola – Dr. Cynthia Grant, AAFC, Brandon

 Additional Research Documents

• Canola Industry Overview 2011
• Assessing the Economic and Ecological Impacts of Herbicide Tolerant Canola in Western Canada -- Stuart Smyth, Michael Gusta, Peter Phillips, University of Saskatchewan; David Castle, University of Ottawa.

• Estimated acreage and percentage of HT and conventional canola in Canada

   

Blackleg Workshop: Agenda, Minutes and Presentations

Thursday, April 14, 2011
Blackleg Workshop Agenday and Minutes (PDF)

• Disease survey and pathogen variability in Canada – Randy Kutcher, AAFC
• Canadian Research – Dilantha Fernando, U of Manitoba
• Oilseed rape diseases – Bruce Fitt, University of Hertfordshire
• Canadian resistance breeding – Hossein Borhan, AAFC
• Blackleg resistance and disease management in France - Regine Delourme, INRA
• Strategies implemented in Australia to reduce the spread of blackleg – Steve Marcroft, Marcroft Grains Pathology
• Blackleg control strategies in USA – Luis del Rio/Samuel Markell, NDSU
• Control of blackleg with fungicides - Glen Forster, BASF
• Cultural controls - Ralph Lange, AITF