Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada's Morden Research Station will be celebrating its 100 year anniversary this summer.

The station has been working with the Manitoba Pulse and Soybean Growers (MPSG) since the organization's inception in the mid-80's.

MPSG executive director Francois Labelle says the Morden Research Station has been a big contributor to the expansion of pulse crops in Manitoba.

"We've had a lot of milestones with the research station," he said. "They've helped introduce some of the new pea varieties in Manitoba that were developed by AAFC at the time as well as a lot of good work on diseases. Identifying some of the disease problems that we've had in both peas, as well as edible beans."

Labelle notes they even had someone from the Morden Research Station on their inaugural board.

He adds they were supporting pea research at the station in 1986 and started an edible bean research program in 1988.