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management and featured Drs. Eric Patterson, Martin Laforest, Michael Flessner, and Breanne
Tidemann. Dr. Patterson hosted a workshop on getting started with analyzing weed genomics
data which was incredibly well received and attended.

The CWSS-SCM will host its next AGM virtually in November 2024 followed by an international
joint meeting with the Weed Science Society of America in Vancouver, BC in February 2025.
The CWSS-SCM will meet again in November 2025 in Ottawa ON. For more information, please
contact the CWSS-SCM secretary at sara.martin@agr.gc.ca

Graduate Students

Graduate students are a highlight of the CWSS-SCM and its annual meetings. Over the past
several years the graduate students have organized networking and social events at each
meeting. In addition, in collaboration with the Weed Science Society of America, the graduate
students have hosted several workshops throughout the past year on a wide range of topics
such as the transition from graduate school to industry or academia.

The CWSS-SCM supports graduate students through various scholarships, travel enrichment
awards, and provides oral presentation awards at each meeting. We would like to congratulate
all of our graduate students and recent scholarship and award winners. For more information
and a list of past winners please see, https://weedscience.ca/student-awards/.

Other activities

Herbicide-resistant weeds are a challenging problem for farmers globally, and Canada is no
exception. Recent estimates for the prairie region alone suggest that herbicide-resistant weeds
cost farmers an estimated CAD $530 million annually in decreased crop yields and quality and
increased weed control expenses. There is an immediate need to forge new paths to mitigate
and manage herbicide-resistant weeds in Canada. The CWSS-SCM recently published a
special collection in the Canadian Journal of Plant Science on “Forging New Paths to Manage
Herbicide-Resistant Weeds”. This issue contains five articles on managing herbicide resistant
weeds in Canadian production systems.

Nearly three-quarters of wild oat populations across the Canadian prairies are herbicide
resistant. In response to this increasing challenge, the CWSS-SCM formed the Resistant Wild
Oat Action Committee to provide information on testing and management advice to producers
and researchers. A variety of excellent resources have been and continue to be produced and
are available at https://weedscience.ca/wild-oat-action-committee/

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