The Barley Bin – Détails, épisodes et analyse

In the following 4 episodes of The Barley Bin podcast, we feature all four 2023 SaskBarley Director Elections candidates. They address challenges like underutilized malt barley markets, they emphasize vital promotions and they discuss industry insights. The candidates share how they each advocate for a diverse, experienced board, expressing eagerness to contribute to SaskBarley’s initiatives. Listen now for more candidate perspectives and decide who you’re voting for!

In the following 4 episodes of The Barley Bin podcast, we feature all four 2023 SaskBarley Director Elections candidates. They address challenges like underutilized malt barley markets, they emphasize vital promotions and they discuss industry insights. The candidates share how they each advocate for a diverse, experienced board, expressing eagerness to contribute to SaskBarley’s initiatives. Listen now for more candidate perspectives and decide who you’re voting for!

We connected with Dr. Phillip Harder, hydrologist from Centre for Hydrology, University of Saskatchewan about his twitter thread from this summer, charting precipitation and growing degree days for 2021 over the past several decades. We talk about how 2021 has compared to past droughts, the impact of heat compared with water deficit and what the implications are for next year.

Twitter thread and charts

Les Henry article

AAFC Drought Watch Maps

Herb Cutforth tall stubble research

P Harder thesis

Dave Sauchyn – Dendoclimatology

In our first episode of season 2, we talk with Keith Armstrong, Head Brewer, Great Western Brewing about new barley varieties. Keith is head brewer at Great Western Brewing, and is enthusiastic about consuming barley. Barley is a high quality, nutritious grain, with a heart healthy label from Health Canada, but has been set aside for lesser grains in our diet. We discuss the status of barley, connecting consumers with barley and how making barley more accessible and familiar is good for us and barley growers.

Resources:

Master Brewers Podcast Episode with Keith Armstrong

Google Ngram for barley, malt etc.

Google Ngram

About Google Ngram

AMBA (American Malting Barley Association)

A special episode produced in collaboration with SaskBarley and the Barley Bin podcast.

Herbicide resistance is a growing issue across the prairies. One of the largest concerns for herbicide resistance is wild oat. According to the Herbicide Resistant Wild Oat Action Committee Approximately 69% of wild oats across the Prairies display herbicide resistance; 62% to group 1, 27% to groups 1 & 2, and 34% to group 2.

In this episode we explore the management strategies employed to combat herbicide resistant wild oats on Josh Lade's farm near Osler Saskatchewan. Josh grew up in Australia which gives him a unique perspective on herbicide resistance. His background has led him to help adapt and prepare their farm for management of current and development of new HR weeds. Josh came to Canada in 2010 on a farm exchange, and later moved to Canada and started farming with the Wiebe family in 2013. The farm has been dealing with herbicide resistant wild oats since 2013, and have developed an impressive management program including harvest weed seed control, patch targeted spraying, herbicide layering, and on farm trials.

Additional Resources:
https://weedscience.ca/wild-oat-action-committee/

A special episode produced in collaboration with SaskWheat and the Wheat Profit podcast.

Herbicide resistance is a growing issue across the prairies. One of the largest concerns for herbicide resistance is wild oat. According to the Herbicide Resistant Wild Oat Action Committee approximately 69% of wild oats across the Prairies display herbicide resistance; 62% to group 1, 27% to groups 1 & 2, and 34% to group 2.

In this episode we explore the Seed Terminator and some on-farm trials on Josh Lade's farm near Osler Saskatchewan. Josh grew up in Australia which gives him a unique perspective on herbicide resistance. His background has led him to help adapt and prepare their farm for management of current and development of new HR weeds. Josh came to Canada in 2010 on a farm exchange, and later moved to Canada and started farming with the Wiebe family in 2013. The farm has been dealing with herbicide resistant wild oats since 2013, and have developed an impressive management program including harvest weed seed control, patch targeted spraying, herbicide layering, and on farm trials.

Additional Resources:

Josh Lade

email: josh.lade86@gmail.com

https://weedscience.ca/wild-oat-action-committee/

The Bow Project involved the beer value chain from breeder to brewer. Most of the craft breweries in Saskatchewan started with malt made from CDC Bow barley, a new variety developed by Dr. Aaron Beattie, Crop Development Centre. Matt Enns (Maker’s Malt) and Wes Woods (SeCan) join us to talk about the Bow Project, the interest it generated for CDC Bow, new varieties in general and the awareness it raised for malt in Saskatchewan. And we learn about new initiatives in the works.

We chat with Brent Johnson, who is in his final year of his second 4-year term as a SaskBarley director. Brent has been active on the board, taking particular interest in feed barley, variety turnover, carbon and more. We talked about all of these topics and more, as well as Brent’s experiences on the board.

We chat with Peter Watts, Managing Director of the Canadian Malting Barley Technical Centre (CMBTC) about barley markets, strong demand from China for malt and now feed barley, and expectations for where the market might go for the rest of 2021. We cover everything from the sensory panel at CMBTC, including beer tasting at 10:30 AM, to CMBTC’s customer support when fusarium head blight affected Canadian barley, to CMBTC missions and adaptations of those missions during COVID-19 restrictions.

We chat with Dr. Kelly Turkington from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) at the Lacombe Research and Development Centre about barley specific Fusarium Head Blight (FHB) disease management. Our discussion covered a lot, ranging from ideal FHB fungicide timing to Kelly’s current research project exploring combinations of management practices. We strayed to discussing fungicide application at herbicide timing and evaluating varieties for disease resistance ratings.