Agriculture Minister Lyle Stewart announced more money for crop related research Wednesday.

The Province is investing more than $1.5 million dollars to 6 wheat related projects.

"We have some issues that can be aided by research, very current issues such as head blight and weight that's causing problems with both yield and quality. I'm confident that research will find a solution to that in the reasonably near future."

Industry and government partners are providing nearly $1.7 million dollars in additional funding for the research projects.

Among those partners the Alberta Wheat Commission, the Manitoba Wheat and Barley Growers Association, Western Grains Research Foundation and the Global Institute for Food Security.

Sask Wheat and SeCan invest $3.5 million dollars in the U of S Crop Development Centre’s Durum Program.

Sask Wheat Chair Bill Gehl says investing in research like this is key, "we're going to see solid stem varieties so the saw fly is not gonna be a problem and certainly midge resistnace or tolerance is going to be an added bonus and that's what we've had in hard red spring varieties for a number of years now so those should be available very quickly."

Gehl says Saskatchewan has about 80 and some years even 90% of the Durum acres in Canada.