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$41M for ag research
Twonew centres crop up at U of S
By Murray LyonsSP Business Editor
Plans for a new University of Saskatchewan crop sciences research park where Preston Avenue meets 108th Street are beginning to firm up, as $10 million of almost $41.5 million in federal-provincial agriculture research money announced Monday is being split between a new Feed Technology Centre and a grain innovation lab at the Crop Development Centre.
Both of these centres will be located close to the existing pulse crop laboratory and the original CDC crop science field lab.
We see this as a small agriculturalbased and bio-product based research park, building on what’s already out there,” said Graham Scoles, associate dean of research for the U of S college of agriculture .
The foyer of the U of S agriculture building was the site Monday morning where $41.5 million of new money was allocated from the federal-provincial Agriculture Policy Framework (APF). The university and its institutions get almost $28 million of the total.
Funding for the APF research is comprised of a 60-40 split of contributions from Ottawa and the province, although Saskatchewan Agriculture and Food Minister Mark Wartman says additional research funds for agriculture will be unveiled within a few weeks.
Federal Agriculture and Agri-Food Minister Chuck Strahl told U of S researchers Monday that the federal government is particularly interested in ideas that can be translated into moneymaking technology for farmers and the agri-food industry and especially research that emphasizes biofuels and bio-products.
University president Peter MacKinnon told the two agriculture ministers the U of S and its recently renamed college of agriculture and bio-resources is the “logical place” for investments that can keep agriculture at the forefront of the provincial economy, as the original agriculture college at the U of S did 100 years ago.
“Today, we are at (the) dawn of a new bio-economy,” MacKinnon said. “This university is uniquely suited to identify, develop and capitalize on its opportunities.”
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