In-Person

Join us at the LARA office for our Fort Kent Summer Field Tour! July 21, 2022 starting at 4:30 with a BBQ supper at 5 PM. Check out all of our plots such as the early seeded winter cereals, liming project, regional variety trials, greenhouse and more! Speakers include: Sheri Strydhorst, who completed her masters…

Join us July 27th at Craigend Hall for the Lac La Biche Summer Field Day! 10 AM to 3 PM with lunch included in registration! Grant Lastiwka will be joining us to talk about perennial forages response to drought and extreme heat with strategies to recover from last years growing conditions to aid plant recovery. …

Join us August 4th from 4 PM to 8 PM at the St. Paul Municipal Seed Cleaning Plant for our summer field day! Hear from our guest presenter Trent Whiting from SeCan. Featured trials include: Regional Variety Trials Impact of ESN on spring wheat and barley Alternative Forages Intercropping pulses and cereals for silage and…

Join us August 10 at the Smoky Lake Agriplex from Noon to 4 PM. Come learn about annual forage opportunities for livestock, industrial hemp, and impacts of top dressing nitrogen on spring wheat. Increase your understanding of crop diagnostics through a hands-on discussion for identifying and treating common crop issues including herbicide residues, spray drift,…

Jimmy is the third generation on his family farm in Oklahoma. He and his wife Ginger have been farming and ranching together since 1980. They have a diverse 2000 acre cropping operation growing wheat, soybeans, sunflowers, alfalfa hay, canola, and several cover crops for seed. They also have a 250 cow/calf herd and take in…

Learn the Basics of CowBytes and key principles of ration balancing with Ruminant Nutritionist Barry Yaremcio. Bring your laptop (if possible) and join us for a day of hands-on training using CowBytes beef ration balancing program. We will be going through step-by-step instructions for the computer-based  cattle ration tool. If you do not have the…

Love local food, and want to be part of building a sustainable, secure local food economy? Check out the new initiative called Connect for Food, which is currently delivering several workshops in NE Alberta. With the theme 'grow what we eat, eat what we grow', the goal of these workshop is to build a more…