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Event Date
  • July 16
Experience
  • In-Person
Location
  • Lethbridge
Starting Price
  • Free!
Time
  • 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm
You're invited to an update on local research in neighbouring fields!

Ashley Wagenaar welcomes you to see the progress of projects relevant to southern Alberta growers. Share insight to improve the skills required for successful farmers and agronomists. Chat with the farmers hosting these projects and learn insight behind the practice and how it could benefit you.

Field Tour Agenda: Summer On-Farm Field Tour
July 16

Departure: 1:00 PM
Return: approx. 3:00 PM

Bus will load up at Farming Smarter: 211034 Hwy 512, Lethbridge County, AB T1J 5N9
(see below for map)

 
Stop 1:

845 Spuds Farms invests heavily in research on their own farm to continually improve their potato yields and quality while maintaining different sustainable farming strategies.

In a field just outside of Coaldale, we will explore multiple product trials that have been conducted at a field scale level to help with nutrient availability in heavier soils, especially phosphorus.

Hear from the farm and from us about what on-farm trials look like and what different we can try in a heavier soil on helping with nutrient availability.


Stop 2:

Farming Smarter has 4 different, four-year trial sites on farm’s dryland corners where we will be conducting different strategies on how to manage kochia as this weed becomes more and more of a concern for farms.

Explore one of those sites, just north of our home locations to see the beginnings of this project!

Hear from us and Dr. Charles Geddes on our different strategies for controlling this prolific weed over the next 4 years, what farms can do to help mitigate this challenge on their own farms. 


Please wear field appropriate footwear and come with questions and engaging discussions!
Coffee and snacks will be present - we hope to see you there!

*Event date subject to change based on inclement weather. Notification of date change will be sent out ahead of the week with the new event date to all emails on the RSVP list and posted on Farming Smarter social media accounts.
Meet us at Farming Smarter's shop before we load up & head out!

211034 Hwy 512
Lethbridge County, AB
T1J 5N9

Summer On-Farm Field Tour

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