Grow Your Future 🌱 with the College of Agriculture and Bioresources at the University of Saskatchewan.
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
Joined February 2017
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Join us online for our Advancements in Agricultural Research seminar series! Learn about the innovative ways our researchers are tackling today's environmental and biotechnological challenges.
Register online: agbio.usask.ca/research/adva…
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Plant breeding is an investment in national economic development, not just a budget line ghanasummary.com/news/plant-…
What comes after your undergrad?
Discover how grad studies can help turn your interests into meaningful research, expand your career opportunities and make an impact on challenges facing agriculture, food systems, the environment and more!
No registration required!
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🌱 Whether you're a grain or livestock producer, cover crops can help with compaction, fertility and water management. Join us & Kevin Elmy of Cover Crops Canada in Kindersley on Nov 4.
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Congratulations to 2026 Lifetime Achievement recipient Dr. Tom Warkentin (PhD'92). A renowned plant breeder and researcher, Dr. Warkentin's work is shaping the future of agriculture.
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The Future Graduate Student Fall Fair is on now in the Arts Tunnel until 2 pm today!
Graduate students from all 5 of our AgBio departments are here with hands-on displays. Come with your questions about programming, student experiences and research topics – we want to meet you!
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Congratulations to Lifetime Achievement Award recipient Dr. Lorne Babiuk (BSA’67, MSc’69, DSc’87, DSc’14), an internationally recognized vaccine research leader whose work has helped protect the health of people and animals worldwide.
More: alumni.usask.ca/get-involved…
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Congrats 🎉 to Dallas McIntosh for successfully defending his MSc thesis: “Evaluating the Economic Benefits of Barley Varietal Development in Western Canada”!
Supervised by Dr. Peter Slade (PhD)
Discover AgBio Grad Studies: agbio.usask.ca/programs/grad…
It’s time for our fall edition of the Advancements in Agricultural Research!
Join us online to learn about the innovative ways our researchers are tackling today’s environmental and biotechnological challenges in order to feed a growing and hungry world.
The seminars are free and open to everyone.
Find out more and register online: agbio.usask.ca/research/adva…
#USask #USaskresearch
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The GrainsWest Podcast examines the transition from CDC Churchill to CDC Copeland as the preferred malting barley of Prairie farmers grainswestpodcast.podbean.co… @AlbertaGrains @SeCan @CDC_USask @canadianbarley
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Input from producers and agronomists is essential to develop meaningful research projects. Here is your opportunity to provide feedback as we head into the 2027 project planning season: ow.ly/l3ie50ZVE8n
We’re excited to announce the appointment of Dr. Arun Shunmugam (PhD) to the position of Assistant Professor – Pulse Crop Breeder and Ministry of Agriculture Strategic Research Program Chair in Pea Breeding at @CDC_USask!
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Two stresses, one breeding line, same program.
Heat-tolerant chickpea lines are also being screened for phosphorus-use efficiency.
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An excellent example of the experiential learning opportunities available at the College of AgBio!
“Become the beaver.” 🦫
Students in #USask’s SLSC 450: Practical and Applied Restoration course rolled up their sleeves (and pulled on their waders!) to help build a beaver dam analog in opimihāw Creek at @Wanuskewin_Park.
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#Mine waste can contain toxic elements harmful to human health and the #environment. Researchers from @agbiousask @usask are using the CLS to study how plants native to the boreal forest - which is home to many old mines - interact with these materials: bit.ly/40J07F2
ALT Photo: Researchers Levi Lundell, left, (PhD student, Dept of Soil Science, College of Agriculture and Bioresources) and Alicia Lamb (MSc student in Derek Peak's group) They're at the BioXAS-Imaging beamline, with a macro sample holder.
Congrats 🎉 to Mackenzie Metke who won ‘Best Student Poster’ at Agriculture Research Day for “Understanding water use strategies in crop rotations through precipitation use efficiency and isotopic water source analysis”!
Mackenzie is supervised by Dr. Maryse Bourgault in the Dept. of Plant Science. Her co-supervisor is Dr. Kui Liu, based out of the Swift Current Research and Development Centre, an Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada facility.
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Great research poster highlighting Gustavo Camargos study #AgBioResearchDay @agbiousask #AppliedForageResearch
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Researchers from @usask @agbiousask are studying what happens to the #phosphorus in fertilizer when its added to soil. This research could help farmers use #fertilizer more efficiently and reduce damage to the environment: bit.ly/3Ro0HGS
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ALT Samples of phosphorus ready for imaging.
ALT The research team, from left to right: Derek Peak, project lead; Gourango Kar, research associate; and, Tihunie Yihun, masters student.