New Projects in 2026

Projects in place for the 2026 field season include:

Pulses:

• Exploring the potential benefits of PGRs on Saskatchewan Pulse Crops: Pea, faba bean, chickpea & lentil
• Response of chickpea to granular and foliar applied potassium
• Chickpea demonstration trial: Investigating optimal seeding practices and cultivar selection
• Demonstrating weed management options in chickpeas
• Chickpea variety trial
• Showcasing LVC faba bean varieties to encourage adoption of new varieties with improved traits
• Field pea response to varying phosphorus forms and placement options

Oilseeds:

• Canola response to enhanced efficiency nitrogen fertilizer products and blends
• Evaluating and demonstrating best practices for glufosinate use: formulation difference and weather effects in prairie cropping systems in Canola
• Nitrogen EEF’s in Northeast SK- Does the added cost ‘yield’ benefit in Canola?
• Optimizing flax seeding rate for new brown and yellow seeded varieties
• Enhanced Phosphorus uptake in flax through novel fertilizer formulations and biological inoculants
• Demonstration of new brown and yellow seeded flax varieties to Saskatchewan producers
• Flax variety trials

Cereals:

• Do we need deep banding of phosphorus in no-till systems in the Canadian prairies (Wheat/Canola rotation)
• Managing lodging and optimizing yield and quality in Wheat with PGR
• 4R EEF Application in Fall- Right product and right application management in Wheat
• Dormant vs. spring seeding of spring wheat in NE SK
• Demonstration of different groups 1 and 2 herbicides in spring wheat
• Improving the standability of wheat without PGRs
• Strengthening CWRS Wheat: Evaluating Silicon, Zinc, and PGR strategies for lodging management
• Nitrogen and sulfur fertility to improve CWRS Wheat quality
• 4R Management of Urea and UAN with nitrogen stabilizer in winter wheat for better protein and yield
• Oat variety trials
• Using copper to mitigate diseases in oat
• Evaluating the fertility package of newly available Oat Milling Varieties in SK
• Volunteers might bring value: Oat volunteers as a cover crop option for sustainable post-harvest land management on Canadian prairies
• On Farm Fall Applied Granular Herbicide Products for the Control of Wild Oats and Kochia after Oats
• 4R Management: Can split applications be managed in malt barley to reduce risk and maintain yield and quality?
• Beyond N Rate: Protein management in malting barley
• Improving Accuracy, Reliability and Capability of the Fusarium Head Blight (FHB) Risk Forecasting Models for Western Canadian Cereals under a Changing Climate: Barley and Spring Wheat
• Winter Cereal Demonstration Showcasing Winter Wheat, Winter Triticale, and Fall Rye

Forages and Specialty Crops:

• How do variable fertilizer rates transform pea-oat intercrop performance?
• Intercropping fall rye and winter camelina with hairy vetch for seed production
• Underseeding tall fescue to canola for a diverse biennial cash and forage crop rotation
• Do regenerative practices work as well as conventional herbicides for controlling wild oats?
• Management of Septoria Leaf Mottle and Desiccation in Canary Seed
• Demonstrating Fenugreek Adaption and Response to Nitrogen in Varying Environments

All reports will be posted as soon as they are available. Contact Brianne @ (306) 920-9393 or Ishita @ (306) 920-9373 for any questions regarding the above projects