Research Centre: Industrial Research Assistance Program
For farmers, the ability to perform accurate soil testing and analysis is of critical importance. Results from these tests help determine the soil's current composition and what additional nutrients may be missing for crops to thrive. But using methods originally developed in the 50s is leaving room for improvements.
Research Centre: Ocean, Coastal and River Engineering
To keep North Dakota's spring thaw waters from flooding into Canada, Canadian farmers from Manitoba's Pembina River Basin constructed a 29 km dike just 10 metres north of the U.S.-Canada border. Built in the 1940s, the dike has proved an effective method in stemming the flow onto Canadian soil, but flood waters now inundate farmlands south of the border.