Addressing farmers’ constraints through on-farm research: peas in Western Canada

Slinkard, A. E.; Kessel, C. van; Feindel, David; Áli-Khan, S. T.; Park, R.

doi:10.1007/978-94-011-0798-3_54

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“…2 That prices are important is supported by the fact that lentil and dry field pea had the highest farm values among specialty crops over the period 1981–2000, and they did increase in area the most rapidly of the specialty crops (Figure 1). Also, as noted by Slinkard et al . (1994), spring wheat is easy to grow and prices for it are the yardstick by which all competing crops in Saskatchewan must be measured.…”

Section: Main Reasonssupporting

confidence: 65%

“…This ability of pulse crops in Saskatchewan to fix nitrogen has come about, despite the fact that indigenous rhizobia suitable to form nitrogen‐fixing root nodules on these crops are generally lacking from the soils in Saskatchewan (Slinkard et al . 1994).…”

Section: Main Reasonsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The results of the research conducted by these organisations is conveyed to Saskatchewan farmers in various ways. One is through on‐farm research and demonstration projects, seminars and published research reports (Slinkard et al . 1994).…”

Section: Main Reasonsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Another benefit to producers of specialty crops in Saskatchewan is that there are numerous processing companies—in the case of pulse crops, several hundred—who clean, bag, containerise and transport specialty crops. Most of these processors are linked with one of the major specialty crop contracting and marketing companies (Slinkard et al . 1994).…”

Section: Main Reasonsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Dry field pea has been and at the 2001 census still was of greatest relative importance in the Black and Grey soil zones of Saskatchewan (Figures 2 and 4), to which comparatively cool and moist zones it has long been thought to be best agronomically suited (Slinkard et al . 1994).…”

Section: Geographical Patternsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The rise of specialty crops in Saskatchewan, 1981–2001

Carlyle

2004

Canadian Geographies / Géographies canadiennes

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Specialty crops have risen from being of little to great importance in Saskatchewan agriculture over the past 20 years. Many interrelated factors have contributed to this change. These factors are analysed using a food supply system model that involves inputs, on‐farm production variables, research and linkages to farmers, contracting, transportation and processing and market development for specialty crops. Specialty crops, especially the dominant trio of pulse crops, dry field pea, lentil and chickpea, reduce input costs, have proved to be agronomically suitable to fill much of the land made available through the decline of spring wheat and summerfallow in Saskatchewan, have benefited from research and its transfer to farmers and farmers' producer groups, are transported to local or regional processors and have benefited from the development of domestic and foreign markets. Specialty crops as a group tended to be relatively more important in 2001 in the Brown and Dark Brown than the Black and Grey soil zones, although each main specialty crop displayed a distinct geographical pattern.

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Section: Main Reasonssupporting

confidence: 65%

Section: Main Reasonsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Main Reasonsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Main Reasonsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Geographical Patternsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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