Discover innovative practices from the fieldThe Farming Smarter Field School2025 kicks off June 25 & 26!Hear from researchers and experts on a variety of crops and topics covering soil salinity and physics, planting and harvest strategies, herbicides and diseases. Buy your ticket today! |
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Join innovators in the field for two days of learning!Showcase your brand at FSFS25!Farming Smarter's Field School offer farmers and agronomists the chance to connect with agriculture experts and swap knowledge with other innovative minds in southern Alberta. Bring your industry expertise to show with a trade show booth! |
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After finishing his Nuffield Scholarship journey, Ken Coles returned to Alberta to share the keys to success he discovered at agricultural organizations around the world. Successful policy for the industry begins with the crucial element - the people!
Farming Smarter's Agronomy Research team kicks off the first year of its latest project that modernizes the nutrient response curve in canola, corn, potato, and wheat. The goal of this project is to optimize fertilizer inputs to help farmers in southern Alberta improve their efficiencies.
Farming Smarter's Smart Irrigation Systems project brings farmers in southern Alberta a tool to help make better decisions on irrigation management. It looks to expand across fields to develop the opportunity with farmer participation as it enters its second year.
Summer is upon us and here at Farming Smarter and we are happy to welcome our summer students.
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It's time to take to the field and learn the latest innovative updates in southern Alberta agriculture! Field School opens June 25 & 26, don't miss this opportunity to develop new skills for success.
Ashley Wagenaar, Conservation Agronomist at Farming Smarter, spearheads conservation initiatives to improve soil health, manage nitrogen efficiently, and address environmental challenges such as wind erosion.
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Land rollers are commonly used to push rocks into the soils and improve harvest operation during silage crop production. Other benefits of land rolling
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Three Farming Smarter project have been extended for three years, allowing us to advance irrigation and hemp research in southern Alberta
We're done rolling for our Rolling Cereals trial, finishing with the most interesting year yet. Rain, heat, and more rain have created new obstacles and opportunities for the team!
With over three quarters of its 173 trials harvested, Farming Smarter expects to complete harvest by the second week of Sept except silage and grain corn trials.
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A trusted driver of innovationBuilding and inspiring a culture of innovation in western Canadian agricultureTrue innovation isn’t just doing something in a new way or inventing something to change for the sake of change. It is doing something in a new way that brings benefit. For us, innovation is creativity and a belief that new ideas and new technologies can bring improvement, grounded in great science applied at a grassroots level.
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It's time to take to the field and learn the latest innovative updates in southern Alberta agriculture! Field School opens June 25 & 26, don't miss this opportunity to develop new skills for success.
Join Conservation Agronomist Ashley Wagenaar in the field for a walk & talk update on the current innovations underway at Farming Smarter
A great opportunity for southern Alberta's agriculture community to come together and share knowledge, brainstorm ideas, and make connections. Plus, you can listen to our experts share updates on Farming Smarter's research from this year!