JULY 2019 GERMINATION.CA 55 TheHeadlines over the past two-and-a-half years. Bergstrom joined Nufarm in 2007 and quickly advanced to his most recent position as western Canadian sales manager. He holds a bachelor of science in agriculture and has a Certified Crop Advisor and Professional Agrologist designation. POLICY FEDS GIVE WHEAT SECTOR A BOOST Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau announced an investment of up to $6.2 million to help the Canadian International Grains Institute (Cigi) expand the market for Canadian wheat through technical support, market research, employee exchanges and customized train- ing for customers and commercial partners in over 50 countries. The project, funded through the AgriMarketing Program under the Canadian Agricultural Partnership, will enable Cigi to strengthen relations with buyers and pre- vent future market access issues, while expanding exist- ing markets and developing new opportunities around the world, the government said. PRODUCT UNIVAR SOLUTIONS’ NEXUSAG TO DISTRIBUTE NOVOZYMES BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTS IN CANADA Univar Inc. announced that Novozymes has chosen Univar Solutions’ NexusAg as the sole distributor for its downstream BioYield enhancers in Canada. The agree- ment went into effect at the end of June and does not cover JumpStart XL and BioRise offerings, which will remain with Bayer. RESEARCH WILD WHEAT RELATIVES HELPED TO IMPROVE TODAY’S VARIETIES A team of Kansas State University wheat scientists, in partnership with researchers in Canada, are tapping into 10,000 years of evolution in the plant’s genetic code as part of their continued efforts to understand how historic processes that shaped modern wheat can help to improve the varieties grown by today’s farmers. The study, which is published in Nature Genetics, involved sequencing the genomes of nearly 1,000 wheat lines collected from dif- ferent parts of the world with different environments. The work was led by researchers from K-State and Agriculture Victoria of Australia, in collaboration with the University of Saskatchewan and the University of Minnesota. The researchers found more than 7 million differences in the genetic code of the 1,000 lines.