Field Tested Projects
2025-2029
Beef cattle feed producers in southern Alberta stand to improve water and nutrient use efficiencies, and enhance their land's productivity and economic outcomes by adopting a double cropping system. This study will identify the optimal winter cereal and second forage crop options along with the harvest timings to maximize silage yields and ROI.
2022-2027
As part of the Saving Soils initiative, Farming Smarter explores nurse crop, cover crop, and relay crop practices in irrigated potato trials to reduce soil erosion and improve soil quality in potato production.
2024-2027
Developing an Irrigation Decision-Support System using real-time sensor data to generate irrigation prescriptions for variable and uniform rate water delivery.
2023-2024
Free farm learning hub with information on advanced nitrogen management, cover crops and advanced grazing management.
2022-2025
This study was designed to test the efficacy of Acetic acid in combination with surfactants to desiccate seed alfalfa. The goal is to increase the options for growers and improve harvestability and/or yield.
2022-2025
Desiccating seed alfalfa 1-2 weeks earlier may improve desiccation efficacy and lower the risk of inclement weather interrupting harvest activities without impacting harvestability or grain quality (dockage and/or germination).
2019-2023
Glyphosate resistance in kochia populations is a growing problem, with over 50% of strains carrying resistance. This study looks at site-specific patch management in an effort to reduce and/or control local populations.
2020-2023
Many diseases that infect and devastate crops are due to spores that are deposited in field by air currents. These diseases are often difficult to identify until it's too late to effectively prevent them.
2021-2022
We propose to develop, deploy, and assess an automated, sensor-integrated open-source system to provide continually updated irrigation prescription maps for variable rate irrigation systems with our farm partner in Alberta.
2019-2022
This trial is takes key findings from Farming Smarter's small plot precision planter research program and evaluates performance in a real-world field environment, fostering adaptation development and adoption.
2020-2021
Flea beetles are one of the major canola pests in Alberta. Currently neonicotinoid-based seed treatments are often used to protect canola seedings from flea beetle damage.
2019-2021
This project evaluated the use of the EM38 soil conductivity sensor as a real-time soil moisture mapping tool. Real-time data collected in-season could allow farmers to use a near real-time efficiency of crop production inputs ...
2014-2017
The study will assess management zones for variable application of nitrogen fertilizer based on 5 years of previous yield maps and soil sampling.
2010-2012
Fusarium head blight (FHB) is a serious problem for grain production in Canada. Specifically, Fusarium graminearum produces high levels of deoxynivalenol (DON), a mycotoxin that interferes with acceptability of grain for livestock and...