Cropping Systems Cluster (2023-2028)
The Cropping Systems Cluster combines innovative research on soybean, corn, and oat that supports diverse crop rotations to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, improve environmental resiliency and grow the economic stability of the Canadian grain sector.
The Cropping Systems Cluster supports 5-years of research funding toward five key research activities, explained below. The success and completion of these activities will be foundational to implementing corn, oat and soybean in rotation together and with other field crops to reduce nitrogen fertilizer use and GHG emissions and create sustainable economic growth in the field crop sector.
Specifically, the research activities of the CFCRA Cropping Systems Cluster will:
The Cropping Systems Cluster supports 5-years of research funding toward five key research activities, explained below. The success and completion of these activities will be foundational to implementing corn, oat and soybean in rotation together and with other field crops to reduce nitrogen fertilizer use and GHG emissions and create sustainable economic growth in the field crop sector.
Specifically, the research activities of the CFCRA Cropping Systems Cluster will:
- Explore cover crop and 4R nitrogen management strategies in corn production to improve nitrogen uptake, carbon sequestration, and reduce GHG emissions (Activity 4)
- Advance soybean production for short season environments in Canada through yield enhancement, increases in soybean protein content, and improvements to abiotic stress tolerance (e.g. increasing drought tolerance and other stresses associated with the prairie climate) (Activity 5)
- Develop oat varieties with improved traits for Eastern and Western Canada, with an emphasis on improving yield, milling quality, disease resistance, and general agronomic performance (Activity 6)
- Improve soybean resistance to Sclerotinia stem rot (Activity 7)
- Develop corn germplasm with improved resistance to key diseases, including Gibberella ear rot, Goss’s wilt, and tar spot (Activity 8)
La grappe des systèmes de culture (2023 à 2028)
La grappe des systèmes de culture combine des recherches innovantes sur le soja, le maïs et l'avoine, soutenant des rotations de cultures diversifiées afin de réduire les émissions de gaz à effet de serre, améliorer la résilience environnementale et renforcer la stabilité économique du secteur céréalier canadien.