Welcome to The Growing Point

With the arrival of spring 2019 comes the first edition of The Growing Point, the Alberta Wheat and Barley Commission’s agronomy focused newsletter. Our goal with the newsletter is simple; to provide Alberta farmers and agronomists with timely, relevant and valuable agronomic knowledge sourced from science-based research and projects funded by the Alberta Wheat and Barley Commissions. You will also find a few opinion articles addressing management perspectives and other agronomic pointers to help you make informed agronomic decisions.
This monthly newsletter will include written articles, audio interviews and videos. Additionally, impromptu information may be released to address timely agronomic problems in Alberta. We hope the agronomic information from these newsletters brings value to your farm. Have agronomy questions? Feel free to reach out by emailing me at the address below.

Have a safe and successful 2019 seeding season!

Jeremy Boychyn
Research Agronomy Extension Specialist
growingpoint@albertawheatbarley.com

April 2019

• Mortality assessment
• Phosphorus planning
• New cereal fungicide available
• I’m using MicroEssentialsS15 (S15) or MicroEssentialsSZ (MESZ) with my cereals, what are my seed safe rates?
• Early season fungicides
• Advanced agronomics for barley production
• Meet the new AWC research chair Janine Paly
• Malting barley varieties for feed end use
• Assessing winter wheat stands
• A fiscal look at seeding rate and germ for cereals
• 2018 Alberta Barley Feed Survey