Agriculture Development Fund (ADF) Recipients 2021-2024

Project Title:

Development of a low-cost clay water filter for disinfection of livestock drinking water

Principal Investigator(s):       

Gordon Huang

Year: 

2024

Amount:                                

$49,000

Project Title:

Assessing the aggressiveness and host range of fungal pathogens isolated from Saskatchewan quinoa crops

Principal Investigator(s):       

Chris Yost

Year: 

2024

Amount:                                

$90.000

Project Title:

Exploring agricultural plastic waste conversion for sustainable circular economies

Principal Investigator(s):       

Denise Stilling

Year: 

2024

Amount:                                

$225,000

Project Title:

Sensitive detection, source tracking, and typing of viruses, bacteria, and antibiotic resistance through progression of BRD

Principal Investigator(s):       

Amdrew Cameron

Year: 

2024

Amount:                                

$208,696

Project Title:

Image Based Detection of Fusarium Head Blight, Lodging, and Grain Yield to Aid Phenotypic Selections in Wheat Breeding

Principal Investigator(s):       

Abdul Bais

Year: 

2023

Amount:                                

$72,000

Project Title:

Field-based assessments of the efficacy of p. syringae pv. targets for controlling Canada thistle on organic farms

Principal Investigator(s):       

John Stavrinides

Year: 

2022

Amount:                                

$130,625

Additional Funding:

$130,625

Project Title:

Water quality test kits for landowners

Principal Investigator(s):       

Kerri Finlay

Year: 

2022

Amount:                                

$159,030

Project Title:

Technological Development to Mitigate Filamentous Algal Blooms in Lake Diefenbaker’s Irrigation Canals

Project Title:

Automated Trap Counting of Flea Beetles (FB), Aster Leafhoppers, and Wheat Midge and Automated FB Damage Assessment for Canola