Events

GROAgronomy update 2018_new

Topics include fusarium crop sequence and novelty crop rotations.

Take part in the go-to summer event for agriculture learning and knowledge sharing in southern Alberta. Farming Smarter offers two days of fantastic opportunities for research updates and community mingling. Surround yourself with other innovative minds from farms, research, and industry who all want to grow their skills to succeed at the Farming Smarter Field …

Screening of new pea & lentil cultivars, faba bean research, pulse-canola intercropping, and more. Takes place on "Jail Land", which is 1/2 mile south of Lethbridge Research and Development Centre on Range Road 21-2 and 1/4 mile east.

The crop walk will include a pulse industry overview, a tour of preregistered field pea and faba bean lines as well as the pulse RVT trials, a disease update, and time will be set aside for producers to ask question and have conversations around pulse topics. Register with Kelly Kelly at 780-674-8268.

Plot tours, Scouting 101, BBQ and Refreshments

The crop walk will include a pulse industry overview, a tour of preregistered field pea and faba bean lines as well as the pulse RVT trials, a disease update, and time will be set aside for producers to ask question and have conversations around pulse topics. Register with Kelly Kelly at 780-674-8268.

Please contact Manjula Bandara (Manjula.bandara@gov.ab.ca) for additional information about this field day.

Topics include Armored pulses with Pat Michetti, Kenobie Inc. and Pulse health check (Aphanomyces & spore trapping) with Syama Chatterton, AAFC Lethbridge –

Morning Crop Walk poster