Learn innovative agronomic solutions to your operation in an afternoon!
Ashley Wagenaar, Conservation Agronomist at Farming Smarter, is touring southern Alberta this summer to share in-field techniques to improve soil and crop quality. We encourage you to drop in for a peek at these practices before you get back to afternoon chores.
Each pop-up field event is free to attend and runs from 1:00pm to 3:00pm as a drop-in event. Stay for 5 minutes or 30 minutes, Ashley and the farmers are there to have conversations with you!
This month, Ashley will stop at five farms across the province to highlight a new and innovative practice. Be sure to save the date any practices that stand out to you:
July 3 – Best Management Practices in Peas; Devin Mitzner Farms, Eagle Butte
Ashley Wagenaar and Devin Mitzner showcase the best management practices to implement peas into your crop rotation at Devin Mitzner Farms, just outside of Eagle Butte.
Learn about the benefits of legumes in your rotation and how they can help you reduce input costs, improve soil health and reduce soil disease risks, provide profitable marketing options, and much more!
July 16 – Enhanced Efficiency Liquid Fertilizer in Winter Wheat; Rock Bottom Farms, Taber
Ashley joins Rock Bottom Farms to highlight the possible benefits of split application with enhanced efficiency liquid fertilizers in winter wheat production. Winter wheat offers plenty of benefits to producers, including ground cover, soil moisture capture, and more.
Discover how you can improve your operation as early as this fall, so don’t miss this demo!
July 18 – Barley Nurse Cover Crop Before Canola for Emergence Protection; Specialty Seeds, Bow Island
Protect your canola from southern Alberta’s high speed winds next spring with barley. Farming Smarter Board Member, Will Van Roessel, joins Ashley at Specialty Seeds to show off how a barley nurse crop can improve canola emergence.
Join the vanguard of the cover crop movement to learn more about how you can improve your cash crops!
July 24 – Multi-Species Hay Blend Including Legume for Nitrogen Fixation; Rod Foggin, Magrath
Join Ashley and Rod Foggin to review how planting a blend of crops can boost soil health and enhance your farm’s productivity. This event mixes practical demonstrations with the theory behind the practice to effectively show how you can assess your field’s soil health.
Come see how this one practice and bring a myriad of boons to your field!
July 31 – Intercropping Peas and Wheat for Silage; Puurveen Farms, Coaldale
Ashley ends the month with a stop at Puurveen Farms to explore the emerging practice of intercropping pulses and cereal crops. You won’t want to miss this opportunity to learn how to overcome the logistical challenges that come from producing a dual crop!
See the benefits of this practice firsthand and how implementing it could break disease cycles, reduce grassy weed pressure, and improve forage quality in silage. Identify whether intercropping can provide you with a cost-effective silage crop while improving nitrogen fixation and increased protein content at your operation.
We hope to see you at one, if not more, of these great pop-up events! Keep an eye out for more events to pop-up this summer. Reach out to Ashley Wagenaar for more information about any listed or potential future events.
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