Beginning in 2024, Mustard 21 has undertaken two major activities as part of its research collaboration with the Diverse Field Crops Cluster (DFCC) with financial support of the Sustainable Canadian Agricultural Partnership.
Climate smart condiment mustards for crop productivity and resilience
The goal is to develop brown and oriental mustard hybrid varieties and yellow mustard composite varieties with herbicide tolerance, high-yielding potential and desirable quality traits for the mustard producers in Canada.
Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Program for Diverse Crops
The activity will provide a comprehensive GHG dataset for five diverse field crops (camelina, carinata, flax, mustard, sunflower) with spring wheat as the reference crop in Canada.
Mustard 21 undertook five major activities as part of its research effort with the Diverse Field Crops Cluster (DFCC) with financial support of the Canadian Agricultural Partnership (CAP). This 5-year research program began in 2018/19.
Value-added Food Uses
Yellow mustard seed is a rich and inexpensive source of protein, polysaccharide gum and oil – all components that are valuable to the food industry.
Mustards in Crop Rotation
This research explored how adding special crops into rotations affects productivity, economics, and the environment.
Herbicide Tolerance in Mustard
Non-GMO herbicide tolerant mustards and carinata offer more crop options and greater market access.
Carinata Development
Carinata, closely related to mustard and canola, is being developed as a dedicated industrial feedstock crop for biofuel production and its meal coproduct for livestock feed.
Condiment Mustard Development
Increasing mustard’s yield has big payoff for growers. Farmers are seeing the yield improvements from Mustard 21’s research and are impressed with the harvestability of the new variety.
Mustard 21 Canada Inc. is part of the Diverse Field Crops Cluster. The Diverse Field Crops Cluster (DFCC) is an agri-science cluster whose purpose is to support the research and development of high-potential, special crops.