Crop Development Centre - Exhibit
- A-5343
- Item
- 3 Aug. 1972
People in a field looking at a crop experiment exhibit during a tour of the centre and its crops; trees in background.
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Crop Development Centre - Exhibit
People in a field looking at a crop experiment exhibit during a tour of the centre and its crops; trees in background.
Crop Development Centre - Exterior
Partial view of the Crop Development Centre.
Bio/Historical Note: The Crop Development Centre (CDC) was established at the University of Saskatchewan in 1971 through collaboration between the University, the National Research Council (NRC) and the Saskatchewan Department of Agriculture. The NRC funded the scientists and support staff for the first three years. The government of Saskatchewan has provided the Centre's core staff and operational funding through its Department of Agriculture since that time. The original mandate of the CDC was to expand research and breeding in winter and spring wheat, feed grains, and new crops. Later expansion of the program provided capacity for research on weed control, conservation tillage, and biotechnology. The current research focus is on plant breeding in wheat (winter, spring and durum), barley (malting, feed and food), oat (feed and food),flax (linseed and solin) and pulse crops (peas, lentils, chickpeas and dry beans), as well as pulse crop pathology. The Centre has access to extensive research facilities that include a very large land base, controlled environment growth facilities, and laboratories and equipment that are unmatched in Canada. Besides the core and project funding provided by the provincial government, the CDC receives significant financial support from producer groups and private industry. Royalties on the sale of pedigreed seed of CDC crop varieties as well as the sale of breeder seed and commercial grain are also important revenue sources. With excellent facilities and staff and stronggovernment and industry support, the CDC has made significant contributions to the agricultural economy of Saskatchewan and the rest of western Canada. Since 1977, the Centre has released 222 new crop varieties of twenty-two different crop types. Scientists in the Centre were instrumental in the development of the Saskatchewanpulse crop industry . The area planted to pulses has increased from a few thousand acres in 1971 to nearly five million acres in 2004. Lentil, flax, winter wheat, oat and barley varieties developed at the Centre occupy major portions of the area seeded to these crops in western Canada, and in many cases they set the quality standards for those crops. Harrington barley was registered in 1981 and is recognized throughout the world as the quality standard for two-row malting barley. Laird- and Eston -type lentils enjoy similar stature in export markets. Scientists at the Centre have also made significant contributions to improvements in crop production and pest-management techniques, and have played a major role in providing Saskatchewan farmers with up-to-date crop production information. With a solid record of success and strong support from farmers and funding agencies, the Centre continues to develop improved crop varieties and crop-management practices for Saskatchewan.
Crop Development Centre - Fund Raising
Mrs. G. Laird presents a cheque for $25,000 to Dr. Douglas R. Knott, director of the Crop Development Centre. Others in the photograph are: Frank Lovell, Jack McFaull, J.A. Brown, and R.W. Begg.
Part of Rice's Studio collection
Image of two men with four horses cutting oats.
Rice, Lewis
Part of Rice's Studio collection
Image of two swathers pulled by four horses cutting oats in a field.
Rice, Lewis
Cutting Oats near Leslie, Saskatchewan
Part of Rice's Studio collection
Image of three men and two sets of four horses cutting oats in a field near Leslie, Saskatchewan.
Rice, Lewis
Part of Rice's Studio collection
Image of two swathers pulled by four horses cutting wheat in a field.
Rice, Lewis
Cutting Wheat South of Moose Jaw
Part of Rice's Studio collection
Image of three binders and a tractor cutting wheat south of Moose Jaw.
Rice, Lewis
Department of Field Husbandry - Seed Testing Laboratory
Eight men: Cam Caswell, Jack Truscott, Norm Johnson, Walter Graham, Sam Beaton, Herman Austenson, Clarence Knapp, Jack Whitehouse, sit at a table working on packages of seeds.
Three teams of horses pulling stoneboats, digging potatoes at the Albert Eastman farm near Melfort, Saskatchewan.
Dr. Sidney Shaw standing in a field of 'Siberian Alfalfa' near Biggar, Saskatchewan
Part of Biggar Photograph Collection
Black and white photograph of Dr. Sidney Shaw standing in a field of 'Siberian Alfalfa' near Biggar, Saskatchewan.
Display with labels of varieties of corn and a man standing at left to indicate the height of the crop. Varieties displayed are Gehu, Fort Peck, Squaw Duke, Pop Corn, N. Western Dent Ferrie, and Quebec Yellow.
Display with labels of varieties of corn and a man standing at left to indicate the height of the crop. Varieties displayed are Wisconsin No. 7 Imp'd Early Leaning, Brown Co. Dent or Early Pride, Goldenglow and Murdock.
Display with labels of varieties of corn and a man standing at left to indicate the height of the crop. Varieties displayed are August Dent, Minnesota No. 23, Minnesota No. 13, Imp'd Early Leaning, etc.
Display with labels of varieties of corn and a man and a child stand in front to indicate the height of the crop. Varieties displayed are Longfellow, North Dakota White Flint, Sunshine Dent, King Philip Duke, Rustlers White Dent, and Pioneer White Dent.