Breeding to Enhance Value in the Western Canadian Malting Barley Industry
| dc.contributor.author | Aaron Beattie | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-04-16T20:13:45Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-04-16T20:13:45Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2022-03-08 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Barley is a significant western Canadian crop that has been seeded on an average of 6.8 million acres over the past five years. In addition to the thousands of barley producers that derive income from barley production, barley is critical to the livestock industry, grain handlers and value-added industries, such as maltsters and brewers. Barley generated approximately $3.6 billion in revenue to these groups in 2020, with a total contribution of $13.6 billion to the Canadian GDP. The foundation of the western Canadian malting barley industry is built upon varieties that meet the needs of the various members of the value-chain. However, to build on Canada’s position as a supplier of premium malting barley requires developing barley varieties that provide better value to the industry through enhancing currently important traits or by introducing new traits. This talk will provide a current overview of western Canadian barley production, the different categories of malt barley being bred, recent varieties released, and examples of several traits that are the focus of on-going research which currently have, or may eventually have, value to the industry. | |
| dc.description.version | Non-Peer Reviewed | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10388/16822 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Soils and Crops Workshop | |
| dc.rights | Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 Canada | en |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/ca/ | |
| dc.subject | Barley, malting, production, breeding | |
| dc.title | Breeding to Enhance Value in the Western Canadian Malting Barley Industry | |
| dc.type | Conference Presentation |