Emily Plihal
Local Journalism
Initiative Reporter
SARDA Ag Research will be hosting three tours this summer to help provide extra information to farmers on the various work that is being done.
Executive director Vance Yaremko says they have been diligently working on various items to help find solutions to some of the problems farmers have been having in the region.
“We will be touring different sites from SARDA’s work to see how our trials can impact what is being done,” says Yaremko.
“We will evaluate different methodologies that producers can use to help improve or alter what they are currently doing on their farms,” he adds.
July 5 will be the Peace Region Forage Seed Association Summer Tour with special guest Rigas Karamanos. Karamanos will be presenting on nitrogen fertilizer management. Registration starts at 9 a.m. at the SARDA Ag Research Facility and will run until 4 p.m.
Tour highlights will include establishing grasses with glufosinate tolerant canola, nitrogen fertility trials on timothy, insect updates, grower fields of timothy, alsike clover, creeping red fescue, and brome grass.
To register, please email coordinator@peaceforageseed.ca
“We will have a second field day in Debolt on July 24 from 9 a.m. until 12 p.m.,” says Yaremko.
“More information about this event will be available on our website in weeks to come.”
Finally, the Donnelly Crop Diagnostics Day will be held on Aug. 6 from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m.
“We will be discussing things like how to deal with grasshoppers, we will have a soil pit to describe different things happening within soil,” says Yaremko.
“We will also focus on industrial hemp. There will also be more information about this in upcoming weeks, but we hope our producers will earmark this day to attend our event.”
All tours are free, but Yaremko says there is mandatory registration for both the July 15 and Aug. 6 events because lunch will be provided.
“Our tours are a great opportunity to network,” he says. “It’s a chance to learn new strategies, and up and coming potential crop opportunities for producers in the Peace Region.”
For more information about the tours as it comes available, please visit www.sarda.ca.