b"2021 canola performance trial site at Killam, Alta. with good establishment of the crop.PHOTO: KEITH GABERT FOR CPTInvaluable InformationThe RVT program provides growers with an unbiased source of information, the groups running the programs agree. While seed companies complete and publish their own trials, it can be hard to sort through crop varieties and compare them across the board.It can get confusing to navigate through multiple different life science companies, websites and marketing material and what different retailers have, Froese explains. Farmers can make that decision to find that yield information all in one place to compare it as a percentage across the board, or whatever their favourite variety is, without having to go through 14 different web pages.IS FUSARIUM STARING Strydhorst stresses the RVT program data comes from an independent third party, unlike data from seed companies. YOU IN THE FACE?This gives farmers unbiased yield and disease information on crop varieties from multiple seed companies, which is all YOU WILL NEVER KNOW UNLESS YOU GET YOUR compared to the same check varieties. The seed companies data might be from their trials saying SEED TESTED BY AN ACCREDITED SEED LAB that variety, A, B, C was 10 per cent better than the other varieties, but what were they comparing to? We're comparing to the same list of varieties at each of the different sites, SURVEILLANCE IS VITAL FOR Westerlund adds.DISEASE MANAGEMENT The associations plan to keep running the RVT programs as they know its important to farmers across the province.CONTACT YOUR LOCAL SEEDAnytime we ask our membership, which is 6,500 growers CLEANING PLANT TO SUBMITacross the province, there's a decent voice there. They all YOUR SEED SAMPLES TO ANsay that it's really helpful in making management decisions, ACCREDITED SEED LAB Walker says. Anytime that we can empower decision making, I WWW.SEEDPROCESSORS.CA/SEED-SMART think that's a win. Ashley Robinson16seed.ab.ca"