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Affiliated Research Organizations
The Ontario Wheat Producers' Marketing Board has representation on the following organizations. Each organization listed is involved in some aspect of research.

Wheat Researchers
The following is a list of the public sector wheat based researchers in Ontario. If you know of researchers that should be on the list, please contact Crosby Devitt at crosby.devitt@ontariowheatboard.com .

Researcher

 

 

 

Location

 

 

 

Focus

 

 

 

Elsayed Abdelaal

 

 

 

AAFC Food Research Program (Guelph)

 

 

 

Cereal Chemistry and Processing

 

 

 

Peter Wood

 

 

 

AAFC Food Research Program (Guelph)

 

 

 

Carbohydrate function

 

 

 

Rahdey Pandeya

 

 

 

AAFC Eastern Cereals and Oilseeds Research Centre (ECORC) (Ottawa)

 

 

 

National Winter Wheat Study Leader

 

 

 

Shea Miller

 

 

 

AAFC Eastern Cereals and Oilseeds Research Centre (ECORC) (Ottawa)

 

 

 

Grain quality and pathology

 

 

 

Lukasz Pietrzak

 

 

 

AAFC Eastern Cereals and Oilseeds Research Centre (ECORC) (Ottawa)

 

 

 

Grain quality

 

 

 

Harvey Voldeng

 

 

 

AAFC Eastern Cereals and Oilseeds Research Centre (ECORC) (Ottawa)

 

 

 

Wheat breeding

 

 

 

Judith Fregeau-Reid

 

 

 

AAFC Eastern Cereals and Oilseeds Research Centre (ECORC) (Ottawa)

 

 

 

Grain quality

 

 

 

Allen Xue

 

 

 

AAFC Eastern Cereals and Oilseeds Research Centre (ECORC) (Ottawa)

 

 

 

Plant pathology

 

 

 

George Fedak

 

 

 

AAFC Eastern Cereals and Oilseeds Research Centre (ECORC) (Ottawa)

 

 

 

Cereal cytogenics

 

 

 

Bao-Luo Ma

 

 

 

AAFC Eastern Cereals and Oilseeds Research Centre (ECORC) (Ottawa)

 

 

 

Physiology

 

 

 

Therese Oullet

 

 

 

AAFC Eastern Cereals and Oilseeds Research Centre (ECORC) (Ottawa)

 

 

 

Molecular pathology

 

 

 

Scott Banks

 

 

 

Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food, Crop Technology Division (Kemptville)

 

 

 

Emerging Crops Specialist

 

 

 

Albert Tenuta

 

 

 

Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food, Crop Technology Division (Ridgetown)

 

 

 

Pathologist - Field Crops Program Lead

 

 

 

Peter Johnson

 

 

 

Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food, Crop Technology Division (Stratford)

 

 

 

Cereals Specialist

 

 

 

Keith Reid

 

 

 

Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food, Crop Technology Division (Stratford)

 

 

 

Soil Fertility Specialist

 

 

 

Mike Cowbrough

 

 

 

Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food, Crop Technology Division (University of Guelph)

 

 

 

Weed Management Field Crops Program Lead

 

 

 

Ian McDonald

 

 

 

Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food, Crop Technology Division (University of Guelph)

 

 

 

Applied Research Coordinator - Field Crops

 

 

 

Ken Hough

 

 

 

University of Guelph

 

 

 

Director, OMAF Agreement

 

 

 

Duane Falk

 

 

 

University of Guelph, Department of Plant Agriculture

 

 

 

Wheat and Barley breeding

 

 

 

Bill Deen

 

 

 

University of Guelph, Department of Plant Agriculture

 

 

 

Rotational cropping systems

 

 

 

Francois Tardiff

 

 

 

University of Guelph, Department of Plant Agriculture

 

 

 

Weed science

 

 

 

Peter Pauls

 

 

 

University of Guelph, Department of Plant Agriculture

 

 

 

Plant cell biology

 

 

 

Art Schaafsma

 

 

 

University of Guelph, Department of Plant Agriculture (Ridgetown)

 

 

 

Pathology, entomology

 

 

 

Ian Nichols

 

 

 

Weather Innovations Inc.

 

 

 

Weather and disease prediction

 

 

 

Peter Sikkema

 

 

 

University of Guelph, Department of Plant Agriculture (Ridgetown)

 

 

 

Weed science

 

 

 

Arend Smid

 

 

 

University of Guelph, Department of Plant Agriculture (Ridgetown)

 

 

 

Wheat agronomy and variety screening

 

 

 

Lily Tamburic-Ilincic

 

 

 

University of Guelph, Department of Plant Agriculture (Ridgetown)

 

 

 

Pathology, breeding

 

 

 

David Hooker

 

 

 

University of Guelph, Department of Plant Agriculture (Ridgetown)

 

 

 

Disease modelling, agronomy

 

 

 

John Rowsell

 

 

 

University of Guelph, Department of Plant Agriculture (New Liskeard)

 

 

 

Cereals and soils research

 

 

 

John Michaelides

 

 

 

Guelph Food Technology Centre

 

 

 

Technical Director

 

 

 

Gordon Carson

 

 

 

Canadian International Grains Institute (CIGI) (Winnipeg)

 

 

 

Director of Cereal Technology

 

 

 

Peter Burnett

 

 

 

Canadian Grain Commission (CGC) (Winnipeg)

 

 

 

Director, Grain Research Laboratory