Crop Development Centre - Exhibit
- A-5343
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- 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.
Cereal breeding staff gather in the back yard of 809 Colony St. for wiener roast.
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.
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.
Agriculture - Class in Session
An instructor stands at the front of the classroom giving instruction in a Crop Science class. The backs of the students face the camera.
Stooks of wheat in the Qu'Appelle Valley
Part of WHFA Photos Collection
Somewhere north of Wosleley, Saskatchewan in the near-by Qu'Appelle Valley. Swathed fields of crop formed into stooks awaiting threshing. Barbed wire fence and dirt road in the foreground.
Louis Jerome standing in a field up to his waist in yellow blossoms. Jerome homestead visible in background
Three large gas tractors pulling gang plows and disker, breaking sod. Tractor operator on each, and man on each plow.
Agricultural Research - Experimental Plots
Test plots of the Seed Barn in foreground. Sign at centre of photograph reads: "Variety Tests Western Rye Grass Strains Crested Wheat Grass". Rutherford Rink under construction in the distance.
Irrigation equipment - Maidstone, Saskatchewan
Part of Hans Dommasch fonds
Grain elevators are seen in the background of a field of canola with a irrigation apparatus in Maidstone, Saskatchewan.
Dommasch, Hans S.
A field with several rolled Hay Bales
Part of Hans Dommasch fonds
Mist hangs over a field with several rolled bales of hay near Emma Lake, Saskatchewan.
Dommasch, Hans Siegfried
A field with a stack of square hay bales
Part of Hans Dommasch fonds
A large long stack of square hay bales in a field near Emma Lake, Saskatchewan.
Dommasch, Hans S.
Farmer burning stubble off field near Emma Lake
Part of Hans Dommasch fonds
A farmer is seen in a field with a torch burning off the stubble near Emma Lake, Saskatchewan.
Dommasch, Hans Siegfried
Part of Hans Dommasch fonds
A close up of wheat stalks is seen in a field near Emma Lake, Saskatchewan.
Dommasch, Hans Siegfried
Field of barley in the Emma Lake area
Part of Hans Dommasch fonds
A field of mature barley is seen near Emma Lake, Saskatchewan.
Dommasch, Hans S.