b'Brian Rossnagel is now a professor emeritus at the Crop Development Centre.Brewers get used to doing things a certain way 3 NEWCOMERS MAKING THEIR MARKeach variety behaves a certain way in the malt plantAs part of the Canadian Plant Breeding Innovation Awards program, and the brewhouse. Theres a lot of management andSeed of the Year winners play a role in selecting 3 scholarship winners skill that goes into it, so once you have something thatto students enrolled in university and currently completing a Masters or PhD in plant breeding/genetics. Go online and check out our podcast works, anyone would be reluctant to make a change,episode with this years Canadian Plant Breeding Innovation Scholarship Harvey says. winners Alexandra Ficht, Heather Tso and Alanna Orsak. We value our Its been that way as long as I can remember, and myterrific sponsors for making the scholarships happen! Check them out memory goes back a long way. Copeland has been great,on page 14.but 20 years is too long for a variety to be relied upon. The breeders turn out a better variety every five years or so, and in my mind thats the ideal life cycle for a variety.According to Harvey, part of the danger in using a variety like CDC Copeland for so many years is the chance of disease organisms mutating and gaining a foot-holddisease resistance eventually breaks down.You expose yourself to a great deal of biological riskLOTS OF RECOGNITION TO GO AROUND!when one or two varieties dominate. It only makes sense to have many varieties out there growing. Two other varieties were considered for this years Seed of the Year Harvey adds that even though its still hanging on,Award.CDC Copeland will eventually fall to a newer, better vari- First-of-its-Kind: Syngentas S0009-M2 was the first early ety with a superior agronomic packagethe question ismaturing, high yield soybean variety developed specifically to which variety will eventually inherit the throne.push the expansion of soybean acreage in Western Canada. Bred by Don McClure, David Lee and Jake Delheimer.Shattering Expectations: The InVigor L233P hybrid was launched in 2017 and was developed by Stewart Brandt and Jeff Mansiere located at BASFs Canola Innovation Centre in Saskatoon, Sask. It is the second Pod Shatter Reduction hybrid introduced by BASF Podcast Alert! For a short audio interview with Bill Copelandand has been grown on more than 13 million acres across Western CDC Copelands namesakevisit http://ow.ly/Bes130pZFoj and Eastern Canada. 18GERMINATION.CA JANUARY 2020'