Talking Crop Podcast Wraps Up First Season

Nov 26, 2024

The first season of Talking Crop has been wrapped up and features ten episodes with various guest experts. These experts were from University of Illinois Extension, University of Illinois Department of Crop Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison Division of Extension, and Winnebago County Soil and Water Conservation District.

A variety of topics including cover crops, weed and insect control, nutrient loss reduction, digital ag and more were covered during these episodes.

The podcast was led by Kathryn Seebruck, University of Illinois Extension Commercial Agriculture Educator serving Jo Daviess, Stephenson, and Winnebago Counties. Focused on row crops, the purpose of the podcast was to provide farmers and agribusiness representatives with research updates and management considerations.

Talking Crop can be found on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube, and the Extension website. The links for all of these options can be found here.

The next season will begin in May 2025. In the meantime, check out our local University of Illinois Extension website for upcoming ag programming this winter!

About Extension

University of Illinois Extension develops educational programs, extends knowledge, and builds partnerships to support people, communities, and their environments as part of the state's land-grant institution. Extension serves as the leading public outreach effort for University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and the College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences in all 102 Illinois counties through a network of 27 multi-county units and over 700 staff statewide. Extension’s mission is responsive to eight strategic priorities — community, economy, environment, food and agriculture, health, partnerships, technology and discovery, and workforce excellence — that are served through six program areas — 4-H youth development, agriculture and agribusiness, community and economic development, family and consumer science, integrated health disparities, and natural resources, environment, and energy.

Source : illinois.edu

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.