Dr. Wolfe has bred barley successfully over a period of 28 years. He has been involved in the development and/or release of eleven feed barley cultivars: Klondike(1976), Bedford(1979), Johnston(1980), Otal(1981) developed in Alaska and released jointly with the USDA, Leduc(1982), Heartland (1984),Jackson(1985), Virden(1987), AC Stacey(1989), AC Albright(1993), and Kasota(1995).

        Dr. Wolfe's barleys have been grown on as much as 80% of the feed barley hectarage in western Canada. By calculating advances in yield over cultivars replaced, it is estimated using today's prices that Dr. Wolfe's cultivars have contributed in the order of CA$300 million to the economy of Canada. His barleys have also been used extensively as parents of other high yielding cultivars released in Canada.

        Dr Wolfe has developed a set of genetic marker stocks of barley. The master dominant and master recessive stocks of these, both doubled haploids, contain a minimum of 15 scorable morphological markers. They have been crossed and cooperating researchers have produced over 100 doubled haploid progeny. These promise to be useful in genetic research and the teaching of genetics. Other stocks, based on the master recessive, concentrate recessive alleles of genes for each of the seven chromosomes. These include seven genetic male steriles, seven dwarfs, and five surface wax mutants.

        While at the Beaverlodge Research station, 1981-1991, Dr. Wolfe published an annual extension booklet, "Tests on Cereal and Oilseed Crops in the Peace River Region." Dr. Wolfe has spoken at numerous field days and farmers' meetings.

        Dr. Wolfe, and Dr. Karen Bailey, Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada, Saskatoon SK, cooperated in a research project which explored interrelationships in a barley cross between yield and reaction to Common Root Rot. Selections with intermediate resistance had higher yields than the more resistant ones.

        Dr. Wolfe was sent to Brazil as a consultant on barley breeding by CIDA (Canadian International Development Agency), Oct. 1980.

        Dr Wolfe has been project manager or co-manager of five Alberta Agriculture Research Institute Farming for the Future grants, in plant breeding, agronomy, and regional variety testing, 1981-1991, totalling CA$1,534,000.

        Dr. Wolfe has played an active role in service to the Canadian Seed Growers of Manitoba, Alberta and British Columbia, by hosting field days, speaking at meetings on cultivar performance, and judging at Seed Fairs. He sat on the British Columbia Seed Stock Committee for several years.

        Dr Wolfe served as Head of the Cereal and Oilseed Section at the Beaverlodge, Alberta, Research Station, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, 1981-1992.

        Since transferring to Lacombe in 1993, Dr. Wolfe has been breeding six-row feed barley for Alberta and northeastern British Columbia, He has begun the incorporation of immunity to loose smut into all the material in the program and initiated the development of a fast method of inoculating barley with loose smut, using a commercial air brush painting device.

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