Welcome to The Growing Point, the Alberta Wheat and Barley Commission’s agronomy focused Podcast. Our goal with the podcast 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. 

Latest episodes of the podcast The Growing Point Podcast

• Episode 37: Smart Nitrogen Management: Insights from Dr. Mario Tenuta
• Episode 36: The Wheat Midge Forecast: Emerging Management Strategies
• Episode 35: Late Season Diseases with Dr. Kelly Turkington
• Episode 34: Resistant Wild Oat Action Committee: Tackling the Resistance Challenge Head-On
• Episode 33: Navigating Regional Variety Trials: Dr. Sheri Strydhorst’s Expert Insights on Wheat & Barley Selection in Alberta
• Episode 32: Breeding for wheat stem sawfly resistance in spring wheat – Dr. Richard Cuthbert (AAFC Swift Current)
• Episode 31: Resilient rotations on the prairies - Dr. Sheri Strydhorst
• Episode 30: Updated Kochia resistance survey for Alberta – Dr. Charles Geddes
• Malting barley quality: quality and on-farm management impacts on the malting process
• Malting barley varieties and markets: now and into the future
• Creating clarity around alkali, alkaline, and saline soils with Wes Anderson
• Nitrogen losses and loss mitigation with Dr. Jeff Schoenau
• Professor Myles Dick and the Breton Plots Legacy
• Mineralization, immobilization and developing nitrogen recommendations – Dr. Don Flaten & John Heard
• Tillage and soil health with Dr. Martin Entz
• Parasitism of Wheat Midge and what you can do to help with Jennifer Otani (AAFC Beaverlodge)
• Identifying Spring Wheat Varieties that Improve Nitrogen Use Efficiency – Dr. Kate Congreves
• Preventing selection of herbicide-resistant weeds with Dr. Breanne Tidemann (AAFC)
• Plant Growth Regulators on Barley – Which option is preferred? (Dr. Sheri Strydhorst)
• Closing Yield Gaps in Western Canada - A discussion with Dr. Brian Beres (AAFC)
• Bacterial disease in Western Canada - A discussion with Dr. Michael Harding (Pathologist with Alberta Agriculture & Forestry)
• Growing malt for feed – A discussion with Laurel Thompson (Crop researcher at Lakeland College)
• Farming without glyphosate - A Conversation with Dr. Hugh Beckie (AHRI) Part 2
• Farming without glyphosate - A Conversation with Dr. Hugh Beckie (AHRI) Part 1
• Breeding for fusarium head blight resistance with Dr. Anita Brûlé-Babel (UoM)
• Fusarium head blight timing tactics with Dr. Kelly Turkington of AAFC Lacombe
• Early season wheat fungicide applications with Dr. Sheri Strydhorst (AF)
• Brian Beres, Hiroshi Kubota, Laurel Thompson - PCS PODCAST
• Seed testing and results management with Dr. K Turkington (AAFC) and Carey Matthiessen (2020 Seedlabs)
• The Prairie Pest Monitoring Network with Meghan Vankosky (AAFC)
• Dr. Richard Cuthbert (Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada) on Falling Number (FN)
• Dr. Breanne Tidemann (AAFC) – The Harrington Seed Destructor
• Winter wheat seeding best management practices with Dr. Brian Beres (AAFC)
• Dr. Sheri Strydhorst (AF)
• Shannon Sereda from Team Alberta
• AAFC researcher Dr. Brian Beres
• Dr. Haley Catton