Sean Walkowiak

Wondering how to submit Harvest Sample Program samples after you’re wrapped up harvest? Follow these steps: ow.ly/GRpX50WCaYp #CdnAg

It may be thought of as a disease of the past, but ergot still causes headaches for farmers across the Prairies grainswest.com/2024/03/a-dark…

Ergot incidence trending higher but severity remains very low canadianagronomist.ca/ergot-trends-i… @Grain_Canada Sheryl Tittlemier and @SeanWalkowiak

Been thinking about doing a PhD? Come join the Quilichini Lab @usask! This funded PhD will apply chemical imaging to a special 🌱 cell wall, and join a diverse team of researchers in Saskatoon 🇨🇦 & @CanLightSource info 👉 research-groups.usask.ca/quilichinilab/… Call closes March 15, 2025.

Sign up for #midgebusters 2025 with this link and catch some #wheatmidge forms.office.com/Pages/Response…

Be sure to check out Manitoba Canola Growers Bulletin to read about our On-Farm Research Program and new Canola Variety Evaluation Trials. You can also read about an exciting cover crop project to manage flea beetle and learn about upcoming events!

A Canadian Grain Commission team has completed an innovative three-year study that will allow for faster recognition and identification of rust and Fusarium types grainswest.com/2024/11/fungi-… @Grain_Canada

Great work being presented today at the RCFTR symposium by students from @Grains_Canada and @umanitoba. Well done @KureraMayantha, Skyler Shaw, and Nicholas Gamayao. Big thanks to @mb_cropalliance, @SaskWheat, and @westerngrains for supporting our work.

🚨 Deadlines for our #HarvestSampleProgram are coming up! Signing up for the first time or coming back after taking a break? Sign up by Nov 13! Need to submit your samples? Mail them by Nov 30! More: ow.ly/3RnV50TY9fS #CdnAg #Harvest24

(1/2) This week on our blog for Halloween, learn about our Grain Research Lab’s work investigating trends in ergot, a fungal disease that may look a little frightening with its dark black or purple kernels, & its changed over 25 years: ow.ly/5EVz50TWqaK #CdnAg #AgSci

Happy Halloween, #CdnAg! Did you know that Fusarium damaged kernels have been called “tombstone kernels”? Learn about work by our Grain Research Lab to improve disease management by identifying Fusarium genotype trends: ow.ly/isSm50TWpVP #CdnAg

Grateful to @SeedWorldCAN for sharing our research! Big thanks to our amazing funders @CanolaGrowers, @SaskCanola, @canolacouncil, and @westerngrains for making our work possible. Your support is invaluable!

📣 Consultation: The federal research funding agencies are seeking feedback from the research community on draft guidance related to the use of #AI in the development and review of research proposals. The deadline to provide comments is June 14, 2024. ▶️ tinyurl.com/4k8735kk

Happy #InternationalWomensDay! #DYKT, at the CGC, we’ve increased representation of women among executives by 66% over the last 5 years? We’re continuing the commitment to supporting the development of women in leadership positions. #IWD #IWD2024

Genome Prairie was delighted to host the Hon. Ron Kostyshyn, Manitoba Minister of Agriculture for a tour of the Richard Food Centre at the @umanitoba. Special thanks to @MBGovAg, and big kudos Janice Bamforth from @Grain_Canada who led the tour. Great meeting, great conversation.

What role does DNA profiling play in monitoring grain quality? Find out in Dr. Sean Walkowiak’s recent research in our Grain Research Lab annual report: ow.ly/QuhR50QFong #CdnAg #AgSci #AgResearch

Please RT "Exciting opportunity alert! 🌟 We're on the hunt for a passionate Postdoc to join our team, focusing on targeted sequencing in durum wheat using Nanopore sequencing." #PostdocJobs #NanoporeSequencing #DurumWheatResearch"

Reminder to farmers to take part in the Harvest Sample Program. Free, and helps ppl selling CDN grain

Lr34 and Lr67 #leafrust I am looking fw to this one!

🗓 Calendar ready The new webinar of our Expert Working Group on #wheat #pathogens will be on February 22nd! Tune in here: 👇🌾👇 wheatinitiative.org/new-events/bre… @ReemWheat @karchuntan @mccallum_brent