The Growing Point Podcast

Welcome to The Growing Point, the Alberta Wheat and Barley Commission’s agronomy focused Podcast. Our goal with the podcast is simple; to provide Alberta farmers and agronomists with timely, relevant and valuable agronomic knowledge sourced from science-based research and projects funded by the Alberta Wheat and Barley Commissions. 

Recent Episodes
  • Episode 39: Battling Kochia with crop selection, seeding rate, and row spacing
    Jun 5, 2024 – 43:39
  • Episode 38: Nitrogen release, the birch effect, and managing the unknown
    May 29, 2024 – 59:37
  • Episode 37: Smart Nitrogen Management: Insights from Dr. Mario Tenuta
    Dec 15, 2023 – 01:02:12
  • Episode 36: The Wheat Midge Forecast: Emerging Management Strategies
    Nov 17, 2023 – 57:22
  • Episode 35: Late Season Diseases with Dr. Kelly Turkington
    Oct 20, 2023 – 39:23
  • Episode 34: Resistant Wild Oat Action Committee: Tackling the Resistance Challenge Head-On
    May 11, 2023 – 48:17
  • Episode 33: Navigating Regional Variety Trials: Dr. Sheri Strydhorst’s Expert Insights on Wheat & Barley Selection in Alberta
    May 4, 2023 – 58:48
  • Episode 32: Breeding for wheat stem sawfly resistance in spring wheat – Dr. Richard Cuthbert (AAFC Swift Current)
    Mar 30, 2023 – 38:56
  • Episode 31: Resilient rotations on the prairies - Dr. Sheri Strydhorst
    Mar 21, 2023 – 41:58
  • Episode 30: Updated Kochia resistance survey for Alberta – Dr. Charles Geddes
    Mar 13, 2023 – 48:59
  • Malting barley quality: quality and on-farm management impacts on the malting process
    Aug 11, 2022 – 44:16
  • Malting barley varieties and markets: now and into the future
    Jul 21, 2022 – 35:34
  • Creating clarity around alkali, alkaline, and saline soils with Wes Anderson
    May 20, 2022 – 13:51
  • Nitrogen losses and loss mitigation with Dr. Jeff Schoenau
    May 20, 2022 – 18:01
  • Professor Myles Dick and the Breton Plots Legacy
    Mar 23, 2022 – 52:18
  • Mineralization, immobilization and developing nitrogen recommendations – Dr. Don Flaten & John Heard
    Dec 21, 2021 – 48:02
  • Tillage and soil health with Dr. Martin Entz
    Sep 14, 2021 – 39:33
  • Parasitism of Wheat Midge and what you can do to help with Jennifer Otani (AAFC Beaverlodge)
    Jul 2, 2021 – 44:23
  • Identifying Spring Wheat Varieties that Improve Nitrogen Use Efficiency – Dr. Kate Congreves
    Jun 14, 2021 – 22:22
  • Preventing selection of herbicide-resistant weeds with Dr. Breanne Tidemann (AAFC)
    May 21, 2021 – 33:57
  • Plant Growth Regulators on Barley – Which option is preferred? (Dr. Sheri Strydhorst)
    May 10, 2021 – 21:56
  • Closing Yield Gaps in Western Canada - A discussion with Dr. Brian Beres (AAFC)
    Feb 19, 2021 – 20:10
  • Bacterial disease in Western Canada - A discussion with Dr. Michael Harding (Pathologist with Alberta Agriculture & Forestry)
    Dec 15, 2020 – 44:48
  • Growing malt for feed – A discussion with Laurel Thompson (Crop researcher at Lakeland College)
    Dec 4, 2020 – 31:04
  • Farming without glyphosate - A Conversation with Dr. Hugh Beckie (AHRI) Part 2
    Oct 12, 2020 – 28:45
  • Farming without glyphosate - A Conversation with Dr. Hugh Beckie (AHRI) Part 1
    Oct 12, 2020 – 30:34
  • Breeding for fusarium head blight resistance with Dr. Anita Brûlé-Babel (UoM)
    Aug 5, 2020 – 30:51
  • Fusarium head blight timing tactics with Dr. Kelly Turkington of AAFC Lacombe
    Jun 9, 2020 – 19:31
  • Early season wheat fungicide applications with Dr. Sheri Strydhorst (AF)
    May 6, 2020 – 35:21
  • Brian Beres, Hiroshi Kubota, Laurel Thompson - PCS PODCAST
    Apr 9, 2020 – 29:14
  • Seed testing and results management with Dr. K Turkington (AAFC) and Carey Matthiessen (2020 Seedlabs)
    Mar 20, 2020 – 01:22:03
  • The Prairie Pest Monitoring Network with Meghan Vankosky (AAFC)
    Feb 13, 2020 – 41:17
  • Dr. Richard Cuthbert (Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada) on Falling Number (FN)
    Dec 4, 2019 – 40:06
  • Dr. Breanne Tidemann (AAFC) – The Harrington Seed Destructor
    Aug 28, 2019 – 53:51
  • Winter wheat seeding best management practices with Dr. Brian Beres (AAFC)
    Aug 6, 2019 – 40:35
  • Dr. Sheri Strydhorst (AF)
    Jun 14, 2019 – 45:03
  • Shannon Sereda from Team Alberta
    Jun 4, 2019 – 08:41
  • AAFC researcher Dr. Brian Beres
    Jun 4, 2019 – 14:42
  • Dr. Haley Catton
    May 27, 2019 – 37:18
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