Resilient Rotation - Producer & Agronomist Survey

Changes and challenges facing Canadian agriculture including soil degradation and climate change are putting additional pressure on traditional crop rotations across the Prairies. A comprehensive research program called Resilient Rotations is developing a new approach to crop rotation, based on extensive research.

Resilient Rotations, a project of the Integrated Crop Agronomy Cluster (ICAC), is evaluating various crop rotations to help create more productive, sustainable and resilient cropping systems on the Canadian Prairies.

This survey is to better understand:
1. current crop rotations being used on the Canadian Prairies,
2. the desire to adopt different crop rotations,
3. what would promote the adoption of new crop rotations (i.e., better: yields, precipitation use efficiency, nitrogen use efficiency or economics)
4. challenges facing your crop rotations

Resilient Rotations is supported by funding from WGRF, Alberta Wheat, Sask Wheat, Alberta Pulse Growers, SaskCanola, Manitoba Crop Alliance, and Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada through the Canadian Agricultural Partnership – a provincial-federal-territorial initiative.

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* 1. Which region of the Canadian Prairies do you farm or provide agronomic recommendations for?

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* 2. Please indicate which of the following options bests represents your current crop rotation. (Strongly agree = the crop rotation always used on my operation; Strongly disagree = the crop rotation is never used on my operation)

  Strongly agree Agree Disagree Strongly disagree
Historical Rotation: Four year rotation with cereal-cereal-pulse-oilseed - OR - fallow-cereal-cereal-cereal rotation.
Intensified Rotation: Two year rotation with wheat-canola - OR - durum-pulse - OR - Three year rotation with soybean-wheat-canola.
Diversified Rotation: Four year rotation that includes two pulse crops, cereals, oilseeds and/or winter cereals
Market Driven Rotation: Crop selections are made based on annual market prices
High Risk Rotation: Crop selections include new crop species that may require more or new resources in the form of genetics, agronomy and/or marketing but could potentially result in economic reward. (i.e., soybeans in the Peace Region; moisture loving faba beans on dryland brown soils; sunflower in the Red River Valley)
Soil Health Rotations: A rotation with green manure in one of four years + intercrops and/or winter cereals + one or two cash crops.

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* 3. Do you feel the need to diversify your current crop rotation?

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* 4. What would encourage you to change your current crop rotation? (Strongly agree = this would be a major factor convincing me to alter my current crop rotation; Strongly disagree = this would not impact my decision to alter my current crop rotation)

  Strongly agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree
Having a crop rotation with better Precipitation Use Efficiency (PUE).

More information about the PUE of various crop rotations can be found here: 
Northern Prairies: https://wgrf.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/2022_WGRF_ICAC_Factsheet_NPrairies_PUE_V4.2.pdf 
Southern Prairies: https://wgrf.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/2022_WGRF_ICAC_Factsheet_SPrairies_Precipitation.pdf
Red River Valley: https://wgrf.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/2022_WGRF_ICAC_Factsheet_RRV_PUE_V1.2.pdf
Having a crop rotation with better Yield and Yield Stability.

More information about the Yield and Yield Stability of various crop rotations can be found here: 
Northern Prairies: https://wgrf.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/2022_WGRF_ICAC_Factsheet_NPrairies_Yield.pdf
Southern Prairies: https://wgrf.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/2022_WGRF_ICAC_Factsheet_SPrairies_Yield.pdf
Red River Valley: https://wgrf.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/2022_WGRF_ICAC_Factsheet_RRVPrairies_Yield-and-Yield-Stability_V2.0.pdf
Having a crop rotation with better Net Economic Returns.

More information about the Net Economic Returns of various crop rotations can be found here: 
Northern Prairies: https://wgrf.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/2022_WGRF_ICAC_Factsheet_NPrairies_Net_Revneue_V2.0.pdf
Southern Prairies: https://wgrf.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/2022_WGRF_ICAC_Factsheet_SPrairies_Net_Revneue_V2.0.pdf
Red River Valley: https://wgrf.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/2022_WGRF_ICAC_Factsheet_RRVPrairies_Net_Revneue_V2.0-1.pdf
Having a crop rotation with better Nitrogen Use Efficiency (NUE).

More information about the NUE of various crop rotations can be found here: 
Northern Prairies: https://wgrf.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/2022_WGRF_ICAC_Factsheet_NPrairies_Nitrogen-Use-Efficiency_V2.0.pdf
Southern Prairies: https://wgrf.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/2022_WGRF_ICAC_Factsheet_SPrairies_Nitrogen-Use-Efficiency_V2.0.pdf
Red River Valley:https://wgrf.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/2022_WGRF_ICAC_Factsheet_RRVPrairies_Nitrogen-Use-Efficiency_V2.0.pdf
Having a crop rotation which balances: PUE; Yield and Yield Stability; Net Economic Returns; NUE.

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* 5. I am facing the following challenges with my current crop rotations:

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* 6. If you would like to be contacted about future crop rotation surveys or new information from this research, please provide your email address below. Note: this contact information will only be used to provide you with more information about the Resilient Rotation research project or its possible successor project which may be funded through the Integrated Crop Agronomy Cluster 2 during 2023-2028.

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