APG Welcomes New Chair and Directors

Feb 01, 2019

Alberta Pulse Growers (APG) is pleased to announce that Don Shepert of St. Brides was selected as Chair of the organization. He will serve a one-year term leading the Executive, which also consists of Robert Semeniuk of Smoky Lake as Vice-Chair and Jerome Isaac of Crooked Creek as the Third Executive Member.

New Directors on the Board include Semeniuk for Zone 5 and Kelisha Archer of Drumheller for Zone 2, who were each elected for a three-year term. Will Muller of Bow Island was acclaimed as Director-at-Large (Bean), and Peter Konstapel of Spirit River was acclaimed as Director-at-Large (Non-Bean), each for a one-year term.

At its AGM this week, AGM thanked outgoing Directors D’Arcy Hilgartner (Zone 5), Doug Sell (Zone 2), John Kowalchuk (Director-at-Large, Non-Bean), and Tim van der Hoek (Director-at-Large, Bean) for their many contributions to APG and Alberta’s pulse industry.

Source : Alberta Pulse Growers

Video: New research chair appointed to accelerate crop variety development

Funded by Sask Wheat, the Wheat Pre-Breeding Chair position was established to enhance cereal research breeding and training activities in the USask Crop Development Centre (CDC) by accelerating variety development through applied genomics and pre-breeding strategies.

“As the research chair, Dr. Valentyna Klymiuk will design and deploy leading-edge strategies and technologies to assess genetic diversity for delivery into new crop varieties that will benefit Saskatchewan producers and the agricultural industry,” said Dr. Angela Bedard-Haughn (PhD), dean of the College of Agriculture and Bioresources at USask. “We are grateful to Sask Wheat for investing in USask research as we work to develop the innovative products that strengthen global food security.”

With a primary focus on wheat, Klymiuk’s research will connect discovery research, gene bank exploration, genomics, and breeding to translate gene discovery into improved varieties for Saskatchewan’s growing conditions.