Idea for WGRF endowment fund.

[gustgd]

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Thinking of a use for some of the farmer money
in WGRF endowment fund. Would tests like this
be of use to your farm? Sort of a Nebraska
tractor test for crop inputs.

Some of us are always looking at how to better
farm. Weather that's new technology or better
uses of existing tech.

Some things that are brought to market, are pretty
shaky science some is great science, that is
brought to market by "small" companies.

This would not be a government program for
registration but more of an independent tester.
WGRF (farmer)money is private money.

A reason I thought of WGRF was because I feel it
needs a new role to compliment varietal
development, and it needs to build profile. As well
it's tougher leveraging govt dollars when farmers
are sitting on this war chest.

Looking for comments good, bad or indifferent
before I take it to the executive committee and
then board as a whole.


First question. Is there a private company out
there doing this already? I'm not talking about
walking fields. I envision more of a testing leading
to extension role.


Thanks for your comments.
Gerrid
@gustgd

[Jfreedom]

What about test existing Chemicals to see if the active ingrediant is as advertized. Thinking Reglone , can't remember the last time it worked well I think it was 92 but that was a long time ago

[Hopperbin]

Could also test some of our fertilizer or is 46 always 46 percent or is it 40 or 48? Is 11 51 got 51 percent phos or 30? Had a test strip that I would never believe on my canola this year that I could actually grow the same amount of canola yield from no sulpher. An 80 acre oops test strip showed that my sulfer was useless this year, so is this why my whole canola crop was useless and did not cabbage out???? Cause my sulfer had nothing in it?

[TOM4CWB]

Gerrid,

In Alberta we have Research groups that are third party that do this kind of testing. Canola Council of Canada does some work... not as local as many think needed. Will be interesting to see how the new wheat commission works these tests out!

Cheers!

[cottonpicken]

We need a team of lawyers fighting giant
conglomerate companies on price fixing and gouging.

Calculate the return on capital of that.

[parsley]

Development of a perennial wheat. Parsley