Research Institution · Grain & Malt
Western Crop Innovations / former FCDC
ECO-AB-0015 · listed 2026-09-25
The record
- Name
- Western Crop Innovations / former FCDC
- Entity type
- Research Institution
- Location
- Lacombe, Alberta, Canada
- Municipality
- Lacombe
- Province
- Alberta
- Country
- Canada
- Status
- UNKNOWN
- Founded
- 1973
- Closed
- UNKNOWN
- Current owner
- UNKNOWN
- Parent company
- UNKNOWN
- Website
- UNKNOWN
- Description
- Breeding / varieties / agronomy — Barley breeding and field research; FCDC legacy includes malting varieties and collaboration with maltsters/brewers.
- Products / ingredients
- UNKNOWN
- Grain varieties
- UNKNOWN
- Hop varieties
- UNKNOWN
- Yeast strains
- UNKNOWN
- Water source
- UNKNOWN
- Breweries connected to
- UNKNOWN
- Beers connected to
- UNKNOWN
- Historical notes
- UNKNOWN
- Sources
- 1
- Last verified
- 2026-09-04
- Verification status
- Partly settled · confidence A
UNKNOWN means no source the archive holds establishes it. It is not a finding that the answer is no.
Evidenced connections
No connection to a brewery, beer or other record is evidenced yet. None is assumed from where it is or what it makes.
Why it is in the ecosystem
"Breeding / varieties / agronomy"; barley breeding, successor to the Field Crop Development Centre (organization record).
Sources
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