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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Farming Smarter's 2025 Field School connects producers and agronomists with opportunities to sharpen their agronomic knowledge on June 25 & 26. This event is one of Alberta's most valuable crop learning experiences with hands-on demos, research updates, and practical takeaways over two great days.
The study investigating durum's viability as a candidate for ultra early seeding has concluded with promising observations. This alternative planting practice for growers could protect the crop and even improve yields in southern Alberta.
Conservation Agronomist Ashley Wagenaar helps you find what's best for your farm on & off the field. Follow her monthly release, Conservation Corner, for fresh ideas, new practices, and how to tailor them for your operation.
Farming Smarter's Field School is southern Alberta's premier event to cultivate knowledge and network with industry leaders. The June 25 & 26 event connects growers and agronomists with the latest research in effective crop and soil management to help them maximize the efficiency, productivity, and sustainability of their operation.
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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!
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.
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Summer is upon us and at Farming Smarter, we are happy to welcome our summer students for another exciting season of learning.
Three Farming Smarter project have been extended for three years, allowing us to advance irrigation and hemp research in southern Alberta
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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Events
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.
Farming Smarter invites you on the agricultural trip of a lifetime to Australia and New Zealand in January 2026! Join us for two weeks, visiting research stations, agribusinesses, and farms along with the best tourism spots in each country.
Join Conservation Agronomist Ashley Wagenaar in the field for a walk & talk update on the current innovations underway at Farming Smarter