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November 30 to December 2 2021
Canola Week registration closes 2:00pmCST Mon 29-Nov
Blackleg workshop – noon CST on Thurs 2-Dec
About the Event
Canola Week is an online conference which combines three important canola industry meetings.
The Canola Industry Meeting, which was started by Dr. Keith Downey at Agriculture Canada fifty-one years ago in 1970, focusses on to sharing the latest updates of what’s happening in the canola industry in Canada. The first of these meetings were small, attracted around a dozen canola breeders and others, but it has grown as the canola industry has grown to be one of the largest canola meetings. In 2021, the Canola Industry Meeting on Day 1 (Tuesday 30-Nov) will focus on canola industry issues and how the crop preformed in one of the most severe droughts in Canadian history.
The Canola Discovery Forum, which is Day 2 of this conference, will focus more deeply into the latest research and understandings of how to improve our ability to harvest and store the canola crop. The Discovery Forum, which started as a research-review meeting by the Canola Council of Canada in 2013, has focussed over the years on setting canola research priorities for the industry in Canada and highlighting innovations that the industry can adopt to improve canola production.
The Canola Innovation Day on the third day of Canola Week will offer concurrent session highlighting research and innovation in molecular biology, breeding, and oil, protein and end-use products in canola. This technical meeting, started in 2003 by Dr. Wilf Keller at the National Research Council, has been essential at keeping the industry abreast of fast- evolving research fields. Expect to be impressed.
On Friday 3-Dec, after the close of the official conference, a half day workshop on Blackleg of Canola is being offered in conjunction with the Canadian Phytopathological Society (CPS). This workshop will dig deep into the pathogen population, cultivar resistance, and disease management. Registration for this workshop is separate from the Canola Week registration process, but a link to the workshop form on the CPS website can be found on the Canola Week registration page.
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Canola Week Schedule
November 30, 2021
Canola Industry Meeting
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9:30-11:30 CST
Challenges and Opportunities for Canola
Dr. Steven Webb, Global Institute for Food Security
Canadian and International Industry Overview and Updates
Topics:
Canola industry & innovation overviews; Processing, fertilizer, gene editing, seed registration and research funding policy updates; Invitation to the 2023 International Rapeseed Congress
Jim Everson, Canola Council of Canada
Chris Vervaet, Canadian Oilseed Processors Association
Cassandra Cotton, Fertilizer Canada
Dr. Neil Strand, Health Canada
Marco Valicenti, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Wendy Jahn, Registrar, National Manager, Seed Section, Canadian Food Inspection Agency
Robert Wilson, GCIRC (Global Council for Innovation in Rapeseed & Canola)
11:30 – 13:30 CST Break
13:30-15:30 CST
2021 Crop updates and reports
Topics:
2021 environmental, seed quality, production, pest and registration trials reports
Aston Chipanshi, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada’
Dr. Véronique Barthet, Canadian Grain Commission
Dane Froese, Manitoba Agriculture and Resource Development
David Kaminski, Manitoba Agriculture and Resource Development
Raymond Gadoua, Canola Council of Canada
Dr. Meghan Vankosky, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Heat and Drought Tolerance: Where are we at and how far have we come the past 3-4 decades?
Topics:
Heat stress, climate change and canola
Dr. Malcolm Morrison (co authored by Nathaniel Ort), Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Research Updates
Topics:
Provincial grower-funded canola research reports and Canadian Agricultural Partnership funded research updates
Amy Mangin, Manitoba Canola Growers
Brittany Hennig, Alberta Canola Producers Commission
Doug Heath, SaskCanola
Dr. Michael J. Emes, University of Guelph
Dr. David M. Mutch, University of Guelph
December 1, 2021
Canola Discovery Forum
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CCC Innovation Strategy
Dr. Curtis Rempel, Canola Council of Canada
Jay Whetter, Canola Council of Canada
10:00 – 11:00 CST
Canola Harvest Management Panel
Jay Whetter (host), Canola Council of Canada
Chadrick Carley, Syngenta
Bruce Mackinnon, BASF
Lorne Grieger, PAMI
Shawn Senko, Canola Council of Canada
11:00 – 11:30 CST
CCC Agronomic Priorities
Jay Whetter (host), Canola Council of Canada
Clint Jurke, Canola Council of Canada
11:00 – 13:00 CST Break
13:00 – 13:45 CST
Research Summaries from the Canola Agronomic Research Program and the Canadian Agricultural Partnership
Taryn Dickson (host), Canola Council of Canada
Dr. Bao-luo Ma, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Dr. Tim Dumonceaux, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Dr. Brian Beres, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
13:45 – 14:45 CST
Canola Grain Storage Panel
Jay Whetter (host), Canola Council of Canada
Chandra Singh, Lethbridge College
Clayton Harder, Manitoba Canola Growers farmer director
Charley Sprenger, PAMI
14:45 – 15:30 CST
Shattering in Canola
Nicolea Dow, Manitoba Canola Growers farmer director from eastern Manitoba
Taryn Dickson, Canola Council of Canada
Dr. Lars Ostergaard, John Innes Centre
December 2, 2021
Canola Innovation Day
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09:30 – 11:30 (Concurrent) CST
Curtis’ Corner: Healthy Planet, Healthy You
Topics:
Plant proteins and starches for biopolymers
Dr. Nandika Bandara, University of Manitoba
Dr. Qiang Liu, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Oils and Brain Health
Dr Richard Bazinet, University of Toronto
Dr Scott Harding, Kings College London and Memorial University
09:30 – 11:30 (Concurrent) CST
Digital Phenotyping
Topic:
Maize and canola phenotyping
Dr. Seth Murray, Texas A&M University
Dr. Mik Cieslak, University of Calgary
Dr. Keshav Singh, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
10:30 – 11:30 (Concurrent) CST
Cutting Edge Molecular Technologies
Topic:
Genome editing and quantitative proteomics for Brassica crop improvement
Dr. John C. Sedbrook, Illinois State University
Dr. Kristi Snell, Yield10 Bioscience
Dr. R. Glen Uhrig, University of Alberta
11:30 – 13:30 CST Break
13:30 – 14:30 CST
Protein, Processing and Seed Innovations
Topic:
Canola protein and improved seed quality
Dan Kraft, Merit Foods
Asiyah Suchak, University of Saskatchewan
Dr. Marcus Samuel, University of Calgary
14:30 – 15:30 CST
New Breeding Strategies and Methods
Topic:
Canola pan-genome, genomic visualization tools for breeders and speed breeding
Dr. Isobel Parkin, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Venkat Bandi, University of Saskatchewan
Dr. Lee Hickey, University of Queensland
Canola Week Committee Members:
Co-Chairs:
– Sally Vail, AAFC, Saskatoon
– Clinton Jurke, CCC, Lloydminster
Emeriti:
– Keith Downey, Okotoks (Founder, Canola Industry Meeting)
– Wilf Keller, Calgary (Founder, Canola Innovation Day)
– Larry Sernyk, Indianapolis
Public Institutions:
– Mark Smith, AAFC, Saskatoon
– Isobel Parkin, AAFC, Saskatoon
– Jitao Zou, NRC, Saskatoon
– Rex Newkirk, U Sask, Saskatoon
Corporate Institutions:
– Hieronim Polewicz, BASF, Saskatoon
– Van Ripley, NuSeed, Saskatoon
– Katy Navabi, NuSeed, Saskatoon
– Erynn Blythe, Cargill, Aberdeen
Non-Profit Institutions:
– Kent Gulash , AWB, Saskatoon
– Curtis Rempel, CCC, Winnipeg
– Jay Whetter, CCC Kenora
– Raymond Gadoua, CCC, Saskatoon
– Nathaniel Ort, CCC, Winnipeg
– Shawn Senko, CCC, Saskatoon
– Andrew Sharpe, GIFS, Saskatoon
– Doug Heath, SaskCanola, Saskatoon