Crop Management (Chair: Gary Kruger)

8:20 Potential Impact of Group 2 Residue on Winter Wheat winter survival-early reconnaissance -
Edgar Hammermeister

8:40 An concepts of an Interactive Ag Centre - Thom Weir

9:00 Field Survey of alternative seeding methods of seeding canola - Lana Shaw

9:20 Evaluation of the impact of plant growth regulators on crop phenology, seed yield components, seed yield and seed quality of kabuli chickpea cultivar CDC frontier - Prabhath Lokuruge

9:40 Smoke: A Remedy for Seed Dormancy - Yusuf Abu

10:00 COFFEE & POSTER VIEWING

Crop Development (Chair: Brent Flaten)

10:30 Crop Improvement through Genomics - Faouzi Bekkaoui

10:50 Doubled haploidy technology for Saskatchewan crops - Alison Ferrie

11:10 Analysis of low temperature tolerance in winter wheat (Triticum aestivum) - Monica Båga

11:30 A strategy to develop perfect genetic markers for barley grain beta-glucan - Aron Cory

12:00 LUNCH & POSTER VIEWING

Crop Protection (Chair: Sherrilyn Phelps)

1:00 Crown Rust in Oats: When Are Fungicide Applications to Control Crown Rust of Economic
Benefit to Producers? - William May

1:20 Mitigating the risk of blackleg disease on canola using fungicide strategies - Gary Peng

1:40 Maximizing your ROI: Managing multiple fungicide applications in western Canadian Crops -
Glen Forster

2:00 The effect of chemical control of ascochyta blight in Chickpea on fungal community associated with subsequent durum wheat - Ahmad Esmaeili Taheri

2:20 Managing clubroot on canola with crop rotation and biofungicide seed treatment - Gary Peng

2:40 COFFEE & POSTER VIEWING

Crop Management (Chair: Thom Weir)

3:00 Nutrient Content in Selected Genotypes of Wheat (Triticum aestivum) as Affected by Environment - T. Jensen

3:20 Assessing the effects of fall temperature and photoperiod on flowering in Festuca hallii -
Rakhi Palit

3:40 Organic Production Tools for Field Peas: Do Cultivar Mixtures Improve Crop Competitiveness
with Weeds? - Lena Syrovy

4:30 POSTER VIEWING, WINE AND APPETIZERS

Soil & Water (Chair: Shannon Friesen)

8:00 Uniformity of Manure Application and Its Impact on Soil Nutrients and Crop Growth -Tom King

8:20 Impact of Manure Addition on Phosphorus Speciation in Saskatchewan Soils in the Presence and Absence of Plants. - Gourango Kar

8:40 Freeze-thaw cycles and water content effects on infiltration rate and bulk density of three Saskatchewan soils. - Ymène Fouli

9:00 Effects of Paratilling on Soil Bulk Density and Infiltration - Brett Ewen

9:20 An Evaluation of the USDA ESAP Program for Converting EM Data to Electrical Conductivity at Goodale Research Farm Using a GEM2 and an EM38 - Dave Paton

9:40 COFFEE & POSTER VIEWING

Soil Biology (Chair: Patrick Moolecki)

10:30 Elucidating the mystery of the tripartitie symbiosis plant-AMF-DSE - Adriana Navarro Borrell

10:50 The effect of hydrogen evolution from Hup field pea nodules on nitrous oxide production - Morgan Sather

11:10 Pulse-wheat rotation: pulse crops effects on wheat endophytic bacteria, and feedback on wheat yield - Chao Yang

11:30 Estimation AM fungal resources in wheat fields of the Prairie - Chantel Hamel

12:00 LUNCH & POSTER VIEWING

Soil Fertility (Chair: Jeff Schoenau)

1:00 Soil Fertility Research and Extension in Oregon - Neil W. Christensen

1:20 Short-Term Solubility and Availability of Some Phosphorus Fertilizers - Tee Boon Goh

1:40 Sulphur for Wheat Protein - Rigas Karamanos

2:00 Phosphorus Forms in Soil Amended with Meat & Bone Meal and Distillers Grain Ash -
Khaled D Alotaibi

2:20 A Summary of Fall 2011 SK Soil Nutrient Supply - Edgar Hammermeister

2:40 COFFEE & POSTER VIEWING

Biomass and Forages (Chair: Lyle Cowell)

3:00 Saskatchewan corn cultivars for grazing and silage: Relationship between crop heat units
and nutritional value - Saman Abeysekara

3:20 Examining the Nutrient Dynamics of Willow Biomass Energy Plantations - Ryan Hangs

3:40 Bioenergy from agroforestry systems. - Ian Pickering

4:30 POSTER VIEWING, WINE AND APPETIZERS