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27 January 2025 A history of community-based initiatives that led to crop improvement and protection in the Canadian prairies
Brent D. McCallum, Virginia Dickison, Charles M. Geddes, Vincent A.D. Hervet, Meghan Vankosky, David Kaminski, Martin Entz, T. Kelly Turkington
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From the early days of agricultural production in the 1800s through to the present day, farmers, agronomists, and other motivated people have worked to improve crop production through pest management and surveillance, selection of crop genotypes and agronomic innovations such as reduced and zero-tillage. These essential contributions also helped raise awareness of the practical problems that farmers have faced, of the potential solutions to those problems, and the problems that remain to be solved. In many cases, farmers have organized their efforts to support research to address agricultural challenges through commodity organizations who actively fund research, raise awareness of science, and encourage participation in activities such as pest monitoring and on-farm research trials. This review highlights some of the important contributions of Canadian community scientists. The future of a biovigilance approach to crop production depends on the continued participation of agricultural community members.

Brent D. McCallum, Virginia Dickison, Charles M. Geddes, Vincent A.D. Hervet, Meghan Vankosky, David Kaminski, Martin Entz, and T. Kelly Turkington "A history of community-based initiatives that led to crop improvement and protection in the Canadian prairies," Canadian Journal of Plant Science 105(1), 1-13, (27 January 2025). https://doi.org/10.1139/cjps-2024-0069
Received: 22 April 2024; Accepted: 3 September 2024; Published: 27 January 2025
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KEYWORDS
biovigilance
community (citizen) science
integrated pest management
on-farm research
Western Canada
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