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Dr. Elizabeth Pattey and Dr. Jiangui Liu

GreenCropTracker: Deriving crop information from digital photography

Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada

Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada scientists have developed a tool to help create better models for simulating crop growth and obtaining physical descriptors of agricultural crops. GreenCropTracker is a software tool that can be used to derive crop information from a simple digital photo taken over a crop canopy in agricultural fields. The resulting model predictions help growers understand what happens in the field so they can manage production more efficiently. Drs. Elizabeth Pattey and Jiangui

Karen Schwartzkopf-Genswein

Karen Schwartzkopf-Genswein – livestock behaviour, health and welfare

Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada

Dr. Karen Schwartzkopf-Genswein is known for her foundational research on assessing welfare in beef cattle. She has assessed the impacts of long distance transportation, developed producer-friendly pain mitigation strategies for castration and other painful procedures and assessed and mitigated lameness in feedlot cattle. Her research at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada has informed regulations and guidelines for the commercial beef cattle industry in North America. Dr. Schwartzkopf-Genswein

Mary MacArthur – Pioneer in Food Dehydration

Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada

Dr. Mary MacArthur was the first woman to be named as Fellow of the Agricultural Institute of Canada for her contributions to Canadian agriculture. She became well known for her scientific leadership on successful food dehydration and freezing in the 1940s. Her contributions included fundamental research on methods for determining the inactivation of enzymes in plant tissues prior to dehydration. She had a large dehydration tunnel built at the Central Experimental Farm in Ottawa, Ontario in 1942

Martine Dorais – organic greenhouse production

Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada

Martine Dorais, Ph.D., is recognized around the world for her research on organic greenhouse production. She is a researcher with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada specializing in crop physiology. Originally from Quebec’s Eastern Townships region, received her Ph.D. from Laval University, Quebec. She later gained additional experience abroad at Wageningen University, in the Netherlands, and at the IRTA, in Barcelona, Spain. It was during her post-doctoral studies in Vancouver that Dr. Dorais

Saving one of Canada’s most valuable natural resources

Saving one of Canada’s most valuable natural resources

University of Alberta

Canola is one of Canada’s most valuable natural resources and the most profitable commodity for Canadian farmers, and worth about $20 billion a year to Canada’s economy. But in the 1980’s, a disease called blackleg threatened to destroy Canada’s canola industry. Plant scientist, Gary Stringam’s innovative plant breeding research helped save Canada’s canola industry. Stringham’s plant breeding research at the University of Alberta resulted in the development of several new canola varieties, one

Revolutionary cattle breeding that helped Alberta beef become a world leader

Revolutionary cattle breeding that helped Alberta beef become a world leader

University of Alberta

Roy Berg’s controversial cattle breeding research revolutionised Alberta’s beef industry. It was controversial because no one in 1955, was promoting cross-breeding beef cattle anywhere in the world. Berg knew beef production would dramatically increase with hybrid vigour and cross-breeding, and each generation thereafter would be stronger and more productive. Ten years later, he proved it, when his research at the University of Alberta eventually led to a 40% increase in cattle productivity

Alan Efetha and Community-Driven Research

Alan Efetha and Community-Driven Research

Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21

Alan Efetha grew up in a rural, agricultural area in Kenya. His father was a welder and a mechanic. Alan studied soil hydrology and crops in Canada (undergraduate and graduate degrees), and works for the Alberta provincial Department of Agriculture in irrigation-related issues. In the interview, he talks about Polish, Ukrainian and Russian farmers in Saskatchewan offering him work, and teaching him to drive a hydrostatic swather. In Fort Vermillion (where he experienced a strong sense of

A researcher examines wheat crops at the Canada Central Experimental Farm in Ottawa, ca 1920s. Source: Library and Archives Canada, PA-043198

Seed Plot Marker

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

Sometimes scientific inquiry depends on simple tools. For Charles Saunders, this oak seed-plot marker helped advance his research on Marquis wheat in the early twentieth century. Saunders was a meticulous cereals scientist at the Central Experimental Farm in Ottawa between 1903 and 1922. He used the 4-foot marker, with its 96 pointed dowels, to make neatly spaced rows of wheat and other crops. The result was a uniform research plot that allowed Saunders to closely examine the growing plants and

Charles E. Saunders, was a chemistry professor who graduated from the University of Toronto.

A pioneer in plant breeding

Algonquin college

Shawna O’Neill Algonquin College Journalism Program Sir Charles Edward Saunders is credited for breeding the most popular strain of wheat in Canada: Marquis Wheat. This early-ripening durable wheat allowed farmers to grow farther north, leading to Canada’s reputable hard spring wheat. Derived from a cross between two wheats: Hard Red Calcutta and Red Fife, the Marquis Wheat was meticulously crafted by Saunders after a couple years of research and growing. At the time, plant breeding was a

Margaret Newton devoted her life to eradicating wheat rust. She helped Canada’s economy by almost completely reducing revenue loss from the fungus.

Saving Canada’s wheat

Algonquin college

Molly Gatt Algonquin College Journalism Program In 1916, Canada had its worst season for wheat with 200 million dollars in loss from bad crops. The crops were infected with a wheat rust organism also known as a fungus, which made the grain unusable. That same year, Margaret Newton, in her second year of university, was part of the first team to study wheat rust. From then on Newton would devote 25 years of her life to pathology and studying rust spores to save Canada’s wheat. In 1922 Newton was

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