Course outline (pdf) Redesigning towards Agroecology
Early season in the plots with southern Alberta researchers Confirmed Speakers AAFC Dr. Carcamo Senior Research Scientist Héctor Cárcamo Ph.D, a Senior Research Scientist with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada at Lethbridge Research and Development Centre. Hector researches management strategies for insect pests of field crops, including canola, cereals, forages, and pulses. He uses strategies such as validation of economic thresholds, and development and integration of biological and cultural control approaches with chemical control to improve the sustainability of crop…
Farming Smarter invites you to pile on with peers and we’ll nip up to CanolaPALOOZA Your registration to Ride Along includes CanolaPALOOZA registration Bus leaves at 6:30 am SHARP! Register before June 24 deadline! To coordinate this trip, we will need to know exactly how many people plan to ride along. Please register and try to give us the exact number of people who are definitely coming. We will rent transportation to accommodate participants.
Agenda Andy Kirschenman & Rob Dunn, FarmWise Inc. The Kirschenman family farms in the Hilda area near the Alberta/Saskatchewan border. The farm uses no till, disc drills, stripper headers and continuous cropping with a diverse species rotation. Andy began experimenting with intercropping in 2008. He started with peas and canola, then tried flax and durum, peas and mustard, and flax and kabuli chickpeas. He tried companion cropping sweet clover with Clearfield canola. Andy has a goal to have a living root for…
Alberta Canola and the Canola Council of Canada bring you the 2019 Alberta Combine College at the ENMAX Centre in Lethbridge. Combine College will feature presentations about managing harvest and measuring losses. It will include an update on market access from the Canola Council of Canada. Small group sessions will have hands-on combine optimization sessions and coaching sessions will help get you ready for harvest. At the end of the day, attendees will stay for a ‘mix and mingle’ where…
Make sure you register early! Field School is July 11 ONLY! This is a change and we anticipate it may sell out. Confirmed Speakers Ken Coles & Dwayne Kirchner, Kirchner Machines Topic:Precision planter equipment Ken Coles, General Manager Farming Smarter Topic: precision agronomy Ted Haney, Canadian Hemp Trade Alliance Topic: CBD & Hemp Ted represents the Canadian hemp industry in the domestic and international markets. He is dedicated to open and participatory democratic institutions and takes a candid and forthright…
Keep checking! The agenda is now final! Waiting on CEU credits Participants listen to Reem Aboukhaddour, June 2018. Confirmed Speakers Dr. Claudia Sheedy AAFC lead in biobed pesticide rinsate project at Farming Smarter Will Van Roessel & Ryan Mercer Seed Production—From A to Z Will and Ryan are independent seed growers and members of SeedNet that came together in 2010 and has growers with experience spanning 15-50 years. This long-held knowledge of growing, processing and selling seed drives its success.…
The tour begins 8 am at Connaught Pond, Primrose Drive It continues 10 am at Saratoga Park Trail, (access through Factory St.) Learn about the importance of riparian areas, native shrubs and trees, invasive trees and their control, cottonwood propagation, and other subjects. Please register by July 25 by phone: 403-580-8980, or email
Farming Smarter Research site - 211034 Hwy 512, Lethbridge County This interactive workshop is designed to help you find the right words to use when difficult or inaccurate claims are raised. What you'll learn: How to tell compelling stories that keep listeners interested and engaged The do's and don'ts of tough topics Successful ways to have a positive and meaningful conversation about food and farming
Learning disguised as family fun! Adults and children will have so much fun they won't realize they're learning something! Farming Smarter Research site - 211034 Hwy 512, Lethbridge County. We closed RSVP for the wagon rides at 8 am, but there is still room on the afternoon wagon. Come on over - the sun will be shinning by then! Look for our pin on Google and Iphone maps. The activity tent tends to be popular and kids can make things…
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