b"2021 canola performance trial site at Killam, Alta. with good establishment of the crop.PHOTO: KEITH GABERT FOR CPTTrischuk says the main challenge the program had was that they had to rely on multiple third party organizations to do the trial work and report the data, which would then be reviewed by the committee who would format it for publication. There was always a struggle to get data in a timely fashion, and have it available at the time of year when growers are making purchase decisions with for their canola seed, he adds.For BASF, the ending of the CPT program will have minor impacts on their company. The CPT program published both small and large plot results, with the results from the large plots coming from BASFs own privately run trials. With the CPT program ending it means BASF will no longer have access to CPT coordinators for trial inspections. In an emailed statement, Corteva Agriscience, another company who submitted varieties to the trials, said Corteva Agriscience supports the decision to discontinue the provincial canola performance testing and believe our IMPACT trial data best represents the potential of our canola germplasm performance in a local farmers production field.Even though the current trial program is ending, Mayko says the provincial canola groups do see the value of independent canola varietal trials and are hoping to do more of them in the future. The groups plan to explore an alternative program that will provide uniform data for both the newest and most popular varieties that are evaluated across all of the Prairie regions.We hope to develop another program that we'll be able to address these things, but we're just in preliminary stages now, in terms of discussions with other groups that may be interested in that. So, there's no meat on the bones yet just kind of developing a skeleton at this point in time, he explains.BASF says theyll support a future canola variety trial program as long as they are able to be assured of the quality of the trial data.It all comes down to trial quality. To effectively compare genetics, trials need to be done correctly and fairly. Making sure trial quality is ensured is of primary importance to us, Wade Stocker, seeds and traits operations manager for BASF, explains in a Microsoft Teams interview.Mayko says theres no confirmation yet if anything will be in place for the 2023 growing season.John Mayko, farmer director and research chair for the Alberta Canola ProducersAshley Robinson Association38seed.ab.ca"