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Jennifer Mitchell Fetch

April 18, 2024

Jennifer Mitchell Fetch is a Canadian research scientist with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) with expertise in oat breeding. She is known for running the only organic oat breeding program in Canada and helping with the development of several oat milling quality cultivars, including the first organically developed cultivar, AAC Oravena.[1][2] Canada is the largest exporter of oats in the world, emphasizing the importance of developing new and improved cultivars for farmers. Canada is responsible for producing approximately 3 million tonnes of quality oats every year, with 90% being from Western Canada, where Mitchell Fetch focused her research and was the only Agriculture Canada oat breeder for years.[2][3] Mitchell Fetch was employed by AAFC in 1998 and spent 22 years as an oat breeder before her retirement in 2020.[1]

Biography edit

Jennifer Mitchell Fetch grew up in southwestern Saskatchewan, mostly in Swift Current. Her family had many ties to farming as her father was raised on a farm, and she had several family members that farmed for a living.[1][4] Her father's love for farming provided her with a strong interest in agriculture from a young age.[4]

Starting in 1975, during her University years, Mitchell Fetch worked as a summer student at AAFC's Swift Current Research Centre in its wheat and forage breeding programs.[1][4] This position fueled her passion for plant breeding as a young adult.[4][5] She attended the University of Saskatchewan, where she completed her B.Sc in crop science in 1979, followed by her M.Sc in 1981.[1][6] After spending some time as a triticale breeder with the University of Manitoba, she started her Ph.D. in flax breeding at North Dakota State University (NDSU), which was completed in 1989.[1][5] Her thesis explored the combination of high producing oil flax with high yielding straw flax to get a hybrid integrating the best features of both flax lines.[7][5]

During her time at NDSU, she met Tom Fetch, another AAFC scientist and stem rust pathologist, and they married in 1985.[1][7] In her free time, Jennifer enjoys traveling, reading, doing various crafts, being involved in her church community, curling with her husband, and watching the Bombers and the Winnipeg Jets.[1][5]

Career edit

In spring 1988, Mitchell Fetch worked with a private company as a canola breeder before completing her Ph.D. and continued there until December 1989.[1] She then worked several technical positions at NDSU until she was offered an oat breeding position in 1998 with the Prairie Oat Breeding Consortium at the Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada Cereal Research Centre in Winnipeg.[1][6] More recently, the breeding program was relocated from the Research Centre in Winnipeg to the Research Centre in Brandon, Manitoba where she spent the remainder of her career.[4]

The Prairie Oat Breeding Consortium is a Government-Industry partnership funded program aiming to develop superior quality cultivars for the western Prairies.[6] Western Canada is responsible for about 90% of Canada's oat production.[3] The focus of Mitchell Fetch's research was to develop cultivars with improved agronomic, disease, and quality traits through collaboration with pathologists, quality chemists, molecular scientists, and agronomists.[1] The production of oats is important, as Canada is the largest oat exporter in the world, and it's a cooler season crop that suits Canada's climate.[7][3] Mitchell Fetch has been involved in the development of 12 oat cultivars in Western Canada and several in Eastern Canada.[1][6] The oat cultivars include the first organically developed cultivar in Canada, AAC Oravena, followed by AAC Kongsore.[1][4] Mitchell Fetch ran the only organic breeding oat program in all of Canada.[2] Plant breeders typically select cultivars for performance in different regions and soil types, so selecting based on production systems, like organic, is relatively new.[8] The organic community has been beneficial to her research by calling attention to important traits for their production systems.[4]

Mitchell Fetch has been an effective research collaborator and generous with her time and resources.[6] She was involved in breeding other crops such as several wheat cultivars and provided germplasm, expertise, and enthusiasm to projects in oat genomics.[1][6] Mitchell Fetch has collaborated with researchers around the world, serving as the chair of the awards committee for the American Oat Workers and helping raise funds for their conferences. She was an associate editor for the Canadian Journal of Plant Science and served as secretary of the Breeding and Agronomy Evaluation Team of the Prairie Recommending Committee for Oats and Barley.[1] Mitchell Fetch has also mentored new scientists in the practical aspects of plant breeding.[6]

The oat and wheat cultivars that Mitchell Fetch helped develop include:

  • Lee Williams Hulless Oat [9]
  • Lu Oat [10]
  • Pinnacle Oat [11]
  • AC Gwen Hulless Oat [12]
  • Ronald Oat [13]
  • Furlong Oat [14]
  • Jordan Oat [15]
  • Stainless Oat [16]
  • Leggett Oat [17]
  • Summit Oat [18]
  • Stride Oat [19]
  • AAC Banner Oat [20]
  • AAC Jatharia Canada Western Red Spring Wheat [21]
  • AAC Prevail Canada Western Red Spring Wheat [22]
  • AAC Magnet Canada Western Red Spring Wheat [23]
  • AAC LeRoy Canada Western Red Spring Wheat [24]
  • AAC Crossfield Red Spring Wheat [25]
  • AAC Warman Canada Western Red Spring Wheat [26]
  • AAC Redstar Hard Red Spring Wheat [27]
  • AAC Cameron Canada Western Red Spring Wheat [28]
  • AAC Foray Red Spring Wheat [29]
  • AAC Tenacious Red Spring Wheat [30]

Jennifer Mitchell Fetch retired in 2020 and has expressed that upon her retirement she would like to see the cultivars she developed being grown widely, being used in many food products, and improving consumers’ health.[7]

Awards and achievements edit

  • Recognized plant breeder by the Canadian Seed Growers Association (CSGA) [1]
  • Member of the Canadian Society of Agronomy [1]
  • Member of the American Societies of Agronomy and Crop Science [1]
  • Honorary Life Membership Award by the Manitoba Seed Growers Association in recognition of valuable service to the seed industry in December 2014 [1]
  • Honorary Life Award by the Canadian Seed Growers Association 2020 [1]
  • Awarded for Distinguished Service to Oat Improvement by the American Oat Workers in June 2018 [1]
  • Outstanding Associate Editor Award by the Canadian Journal of Plant Science in 2018 [1]

References edit

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v "Jennifer Mitchell Fetch – Honorary Life Award Recipient 2020". Canadian Seed Growers' Association.
  2. ^ a b c Cross, Brian. "Ag Canada hires new oat breeder in Brandon". The Western Producer.
  3. ^ a b c "Government of Canada invests nearly $2 million in oat cultivar development". CISION. Aug 27, 2019.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g "THE PEOPLE BEHIND THE RESEARCH- A Conversation with Dr. Jennifer Mitchell Fetch". Dalhousie University.
  5. ^ a b c d Boudreau, Nicole (Aug 2012). "Did you have oatmeal for breakfast this morning? Perhaps you ate an oat variety crafted by Jennifer Mitchell Fetch". The Canadian Organic Grower.
  6. ^ a b c d e f g "2018 American Oat Workers Conference- Award for Distinguished Service to Oat Improvement" (PDF).
  7. ^ a b c d "Maybe you ate an oat variety crafted by Jennifer Mitchell Fetch" (PDF).
  8. ^ Rance, Laura (April 5, 2018). "New organic oat varieties in the pipeline". Organic Biz.
  9. ^ Mitchell Fetch, Jennifer (1 July 2009). "Lee Williams hulless Oat". Canadian Journal of Plant Science. 89 (4): 665–669. doi:10.4141/CJPS08197 – via Canadian Science Publishing.
  10. ^ Mitchell Fetch, Jennifer (1 July 2009). "Lu Oat". Canadian Journal of Plant Science. 89 (4): 671–675. doi:10.4141/CJPS08193 – via Canadian Science Publishing.
  11. ^ Mitchell Fetch, Jennifer (1 January 2003). "Pinnacle Oat". Canadian Journal of Plant Science. 83: 97–99. doi:10.4141/P02-017 – via Canadian Science Publishing.
  12. ^ Mitchell Fetch, Jennifer (1 January 2003). "AC Gwen hulless Oat". Canadian Journal of Plant Science. 83: 93–95. doi:10.4141/P02-018 – via Canadian Science Publishing.
  13. ^ Mitchell Fetch, Jennifer (1 January 2003). "Ronald Oat". Canadian Journal of Plant Science. 83: 101–104. doi:10.4141/P02-019 – via Canadian Science Publishing.
  14. ^ Mitchell Fetch, Jennifer (10 October 2006). "Furlong Oat". Canadian Journal of Plant Science. 86 (4): 1153–1156. doi:10.4141/P06-005 – via Canadian Science Publishing.
  15. ^ Mitchell Fetch, Jennifer (1 January 2009). "Jordan Oat". Canadian Journal of Plant Science. 89: 67–71. doi:10.4141/CJPS08095 – via Canadian Science Publishing.
  16. ^ Mitchell Fetch, Jennifer (2011). "Stainless Oat". Canadian Journal of Plant Science. 91 (2): 357–361. doi:10.4141/CJPS10159 – via Canadian Science Publishing.
  17. ^ Mitchell Fetch, Jennifer (1 July 2007). "Leggett Oat". Canadian Journal of Plant Science. 87 (3): 509–512. doi:10.4141/CJPS06030 – via Canadian Science Publishing.
  18. ^ Mitchell Fetch, Jennifer (1 June 2011). "Summit Oat". Canadian Journal of Plant Science. 91 (4): 787–791. doi:10.4141/cjps10158 – via Canadian Science Publishing.
  19. ^ Mitchell Fetch, Jennifer W. (July 2013). "Stride Oat". Canadian Journal of Plant Science. 93 (4): 749–753. doi:10.4141/cjps2012-325 – via Canadian Science Publishing.
  20. ^ Yan, Weikai (2021). "AAC Banner Oat". Canadian Journal of Plant Science. 101 (3): 441–446. doi:10.1139/CJPS-2019-0341.
  21. ^ Kumar, S (20 March 2017). "AAC Jatharia Canada Western Red Spring wheat". Canadian Journal of Plant Science. 97 (2): 368–376. doi:10.1139/cjps-2016-0177. hdl:1807/76520.
  22. ^ Kumar, S (4 December 2017). "AAC Prevail Canada Western Red Spring wheat". Canadian Journal of Plant Science. doi:10.1139/cjps-2017-0193. hdl:1807/87243.
  23. ^ Kumar, S (26 September 2019). "AAC Magnet Canada Western Red Spring wheat". Canadian Journal of Plant Science. 99 (6): 988–996. doi:10.1139/cjps-2019-0180 – via Canadian Science Publishing.
  24. ^ Kumar, S (26 September 2019). "AAC LeRoy Canada Western Red Spring wheat". Canadian Journal of Plant Science. 99 (6): 997–1005. doi:10.1139/cjps-2019-0184 – via Canadian Science Publishing.
  25. ^ Randhawa, H.S. (7 November 2019). "AAC Crossfield red spring wheat". Canadian Journal of Plant Science. 100 (2): 239–244. doi:10.1139/cjps-2019-0237 – via Canadian Science Publishing.
  26. ^ Kumar, S (14 December 2018). "AAC Warman Canada Western Red Spring wheat". Canadian Journal of Plant Science. 99 (2): 289–298. doi:10.1139/cjps-2018-0221. hdl:1807/94398 – via Canadian Science Publishing.
  27. ^ James Burt, Andrew (2021). "AAC Redstar hard red spring wheat". Canadian Journal of Plant Science. 101 (2): 274–283. doi:10.1139/CJPS-2020-0148 – via Canadian Science Publishing.
  28. ^ Fox, S.L. (8 November 2016). "AAC Cameron Canada western red spring wheat". Canadian Journal of Plant Science: 1–8. doi:10.1139/cjps-2016-0011 – via Canadian Science Publishing.
  29. ^ Brown, P.D. (19 March 2015). "AAC Foray red spring wheat". Canadian Journal of Plant Science. 95 (4): 799–803. doi:10.4141/cjps-2015-007 – via Canadian Science Publishing.
  30. ^ Brown, P.D. (19 March 2015). "AAC Tenacious Red Spring Wheat". Canadian Journal of Plant Science. 95 (4): 805–810. doi:10.4141/cjps-2015-011 – via Canadian Science Publishing.

April 18, 2024
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Jennifer Mitchell Fetch is a Canadian research scientist with Agriculture and Agri Food Canada AAFC with expertise in oat breeding She is known for running the only organic oat breeding program in Canada and helping with the development of several oat milling quality cultivars including the first organically developed cultivar AAC Oravena 1 2 Canada is the largest exporter of oats in the world emphasizing the importance of developing new and improved cultivars for farmers Canada is responsible for producing approximately 3 million tonnes of quality oats every year with 90 being from Western Canada where Mitchell Fetch focused her research and was the only Agriculture Canada oat breeder for years 2 3 Mitchell Fetch was employed by AAFC in 1998 and spent 22 years as an oat breeder before her retirement in 2020 1 Contents 1 Biography 2 Career 3 Awards and achievements 4 ReferencesBiography editJennifer Mitchell Fetch grew up in southwestern Saskatchewan mostly in Swift Current Her family had many ties to farming as her father was raised on a farm and she had several family members that farmed for a living 1 4 Her father s love for farming provided her with a strong interest in agriculture from a young age 4 Starting in 1975 during her University years Mitchell Fetch worked as a summer student at AAFC s Swift Current Research Centre in its wheat and forage breeding programs 1 4 This position fueled her passion for plant breeding as a young adult 4 5 She attended the University of Saskatchewan where she completed her B Sc in crop science in 1979 followed by her M Sc in 1981 1 6 After spending some time as a triticale breeder with the University of Manitoba she started her Ph D in flax breeding at North Dakota State University NDSU which was completed in 1989 1 5 Her thesis explored the combination of high producing oil flax with high yielding straw flax to get a hybrid integrating the best features of both flax lines 7 5 During her time at NDSU she met Tom Fetch another AAFC scientist and stem rust pathologist and they married in 1985 1 7 In her free time Jennifer enjoys traveling reading doing various crafts being involved in her church community curling with her husband and watching the Bombers and the Winnipeg Jets 1 5 Career editIn spring 1988 Mitchell Fetch worked with a private company as a canola breeder before completing her Ph D and continued there until December 1989 1 She then worked several technical positions at NDSU until she was offered an oat breeding position in 1998 with the Prairie Oat Breeding Consortium at the Agriculture and Agri Food Canada Cereal Research Centre in Winnipeg 1 6 More recently the breeding program was relocated from the Research Centre in Winnipeg to the Research Centre in Brandon Manitoba where she spent the remainder of her career 4 The Prairie Oat Breeding Consortium is a Government Industry partnership funded program aiming to develop superior quality cultivars for the western Prairies 6 Western Canada is responsible for about 90 of Canada s oat production 3 The focus of Mitchell Fetch s research was to develop cultivars with improved agronomic disease and quality traits through collaboration with pathologists quality chemists molecular scientists and agronomists 1 The production of oats is important as Canada is the largest oat exporter in the world and it s a cooler season crop that suits Canada s climate 7 3 Mitchell Fetch has been involved in the development of 12 oat cultivars in Western Canada and several in Eastern Canada 1 6 The oat cultivars include the first organically developed cultivar in Canada AAC Oravena followed by AAC Kongsore 1 4 Mitchell Fetch ran the only organic breeding oat program in all of Canada 2 Plant breeders typically select cultivars for performance in different regions and soil types so selecting based on production systems like organic is relatively new 8 The organic community has been beneficial to her research by calling attention to important traits for their production systems 4 Mitchell Fetch has been an effective research collaborator and generous with her time and resources 6 She was involved in breeding other crops such as several wheat cultivars and provided germplasm expertise and enthusiasm to projects in oat genomics 1 6 Mitchell Fetch has collaborated with researchers around the world serving as the chair of the awards committee for the American Oat Workers and helping raise funds for their conferences She was an associate editor for the Canadian Journal of Plant Science and served as secretary of the Breeding and Agronomy Evaluation Team of the Prairie Recommending Committee for Oats and Barley 1 Mitchell Fetch has also mentored new scientists in the practical aspects of plant breeding 6 The oat and wheat cultivars that Mitchell Fetch helped develop include Lee Williams Hulless Oat 9 Lu Oat 10 Pinnacle Oat 11 AC Gwen Hulless Oat 12 Ronald Oat 13 Furlong Oat 14 Jordan Oat 15 Stainless Oat 16 Leggett Oat 17 Summit Oat 18 Stride Oat 19 AAC Banner Oat 20 AAC Jatharia Canada Western Red Spring Wheat 21 AAC Prevail Canada Western Red Spring Wheat 22 AAC Magnet Canada Western Red Spring Wheat 23 AAC LeRoy Canada Western Red Spring Wheat 24 AAC Crossfield Red Spring Wheat 25 AAC Warman Canada Western Red Spring Wheat 26 AAC Redstar Hard Red Spring Wheat 27 AAC Cameron Canada Western Red Spring Wheat 28 AAC Foray Red Spring Wheat 29 AAC Tenacious Red Spring Wheat 30 Jennifer Mitchell Fetch retired in 2020 and has expressed that upon her retirement she would like to see the cultivars she developed being grown widely being used in many food products and improving consumers health 7 Awards and achievements editRecognized plant breeder by the Canadian Seed Growers Association CSGA 1 Member of the Canadian Society of Agronomy 1 Member of the American Societies of Agronomy and Crop Science 1 Honorary Life Membership Award by the Manitoba Seed Growers Association in recognition of valuable service to the seed industry in December 2014 1 Honorary Life Award by the Canadian Seed Growers Association 2020 1 Awarded for Distinguished Service to Oat Improvement by the American Oat Workers in June 2018 1 Outstanding Associate Editor Award by the Canadian Journal of Plant Science in 2018 1 References edit a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v Jennifer Mitchell Fetch Honorary Life Award Recipient 2020 Canadian Seed Growers Association a b c Cross Brian Ag Canada hires new oat breeder in Brandon The Western Producer a b c Government of Canada invests nearly 2 million in oat cultivar development CISION Aug 27 2019 a b c d e f g THE PEOPLE BEHIND THE RESEARCH A Conversation with Dr Jennifer Mitchell Fetch Dalhousie University a b c d Boudreau Nicole Aug 2012 Did you have oatmeal for breakfast this morning Perhaps you ate an oat variety crafted by Jennifer Mitchell Fetch The Canadian Organic Grower a b c d e f g 2018 American Oat Workers Conference Award for Distinguished Service to Oat Improvement PDF a b c d Maybe you ate an oat variety crafted by Jennifer Mitchell Fetch PDF Rance Laura April 5 2018 New organic oat varieties in the pipeline Organic Biz Mitchell Fetch Jennifer 1 July 2009 Lee Williams hulless Oat Canadian Journal of Plant Science 89 4 665 669 doi 10 4141 CJPS08197 via Canadian Science Publishing Mitchell Fetch Jennifer 1 July 2009 Lu Oat Canadian Journal of Plant Science 89 4 671 675 doi 10 4141 CJPS08193 via Canadian Science Publishing Mitchell Fetch Jennifer 1 January 2003 Pinnacle Oat Canadian Journal of Plant Science 83 97 99 doi 10 4141 P02 017 via Canadian Science Publishing Mitchell Fetch Jennifer 1 January 2003 AC Gwen hulless Oat Canadian Journal of Plant Science 83 93 95 doi 10 4141 P02 018 via Canadian Science Publishing Mitchell Fetch Jennifer 1 January 2003 Ronald Oat Canadian Journal of Plant Science 83 101 104 doi 10 4141 P02 019 via Canadian Science Publishing Mitchell Fetch Jennifer 10 October 2006 Furlong Oat Canadian Journal of Plant Science 86 4 1153 1156 doi 10 4141 P06 005 via Canadian Science Publishing Mitchell Fetch Jennifer 1 January 2009 Jordan Oat Canadian Journal of Plant Science 89 67 71 doi 10 4141 CJPS08095 via Canadian Science Publishing Mitchell Fetch Jennifer 2011 Stainless Oat Canadian Journal of Plant Science 91 2 357 361 doi 10 4141 CJPS10159 via Canadian Science Publishing Mitchell Fetch Jennifer 1 July 2007 Leggett Oat Canadian Journal of Plant Science 87 3 509 512 doi 10 4141 CJPS06030 via Canadian Science Publishing Mitchell Fetch Jennifer 1 June 2011 Summit Oat Canadian Journal of Plant Science 91 4 787 791 doi 10 4141 cjps10158 via Canadian Science Publishing Mitchell Fetch Jennifer W July 2013 Stride Oat Canadian Journal of Plant Science 93 4 749 753 doi 10 4141 cjps2012 325 via Canadian Science Publishing Yan Weikai 2021 AAC Banner Oat Canadian Journal of Plant Science 101 3 441 446 doi 10 1139 CJPS 2019 0341 Kumar S 20 March 2017 AAC Jatharia Canada Western Red Spring wheat Canadian Journal of Plant Science 97 2 368 376 doi 10 1139 cjps 2016 0177 hdl 1807 76520 Kumar S 4 December 2017 AAC Prevail Canada Western Red Spring wheat Canadian Journal of Plant Science doi 10 1139 cjps 2017 0193 hdl 1807 87243 Kumar S 26 September 2019 AAC Magnet Canada Western Red Spring wheat Canadian Journal of Plant Science 99 6 988 996 doi 10 1139 cjps 2019 0180 via Canadian Science Publishing Kumar S 26 September 2019 AAC LeRoy Canada Western Red Spring wheat Canadian Journal of Plant Science 99 6 997 1005 doi 10 1139 cjps 2019 0184 via Canadian Science Publishing Randhawa H S 7 November 2019 AAC Crossfield red spring wheat Canadian Journal of Plant Science 100 2 239 244 doi 10 1139 cjps 2019 0237 via Canadian Science Publishing Kumar S 14 December 2018 AAC Warman Canada Western Red Spring wheat Canadian Journal of Plant Science 99 2 289 298 doi 10 1139 cjps 2018 0221 hdl 1807 94398 via Canadian Science Publishing James Burt Andrew 2021 AAC Redstar hard red spring wheat Canadian Journal of Plant Science 101 2 274 283 doi 10 1139 CJPS 2020 0148 via Canadian Science Publishing Fox S L 8 November 2016 AAC Cameron Canada western red spring wheat Canadian Journal of Plant Science 1 8 doi 10 1139 cjps 2016 0011 via Canadian Science Publishing Brown P D 19 March 2015 AAC Foray red spring wheat Canadian Journal of Plant Science 95 4 799 803 doi 10 4141 cjps 2015 007 via Canadian Science Publishing Brown P D 19 March 2015 AAC Tenacious Red Spring Wheat Canadian Journal of Plant Science 95 4 805 810 doi 10 4141 cjps 2015 011 via Canadian Science Publishing Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Jennifer Mitchell Fetch amp oldid 1199834821, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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