This field day will be held at the Swift Current Research and Development Centre (Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada).
- Schedule of Events:
- 8:00am – Registration at Walker Place – Tradeshow all day
- 9:00am – Introductions and travel to South Farm for Field Trials Tour
- 11:45am – Return to Walker Place for lunch, networking and presentations
- 5:00pm – End of field day
- Field Trials Tour (rain or shine) includes:
- Intercropping and following cash crops
- Diversified cropping strategies to improve sustainability: cover crop blends and following cash crops, allelopathy, tillage timing and intensity, polycrop mixes for grazing, Phoma bioherbicide
- New organic trials and studies starting in 2019
- Afternoon Presentations:
- Mixed grain intercrops
- Role of field boundary habitats in agro-ecosystems
- Market signals and converting to organic farming
- Agronomy and ecology for organic production
- Update on SaskOrganic activities
- Organic producer panel
- Display on organic agriculture in the prairies
Tickets: $30, includes lunch, coffee breaks and 50-page book of proceedings
Register here
