Bitesize Spring Research Updates

Mike Gretzinger is in the field with the students as they prep their greenhouse gas chambers to trap the air and let us measure the N2O emissions of fertilizer varieties.

This project is funded by ASLE Technologies, to track the emissions from a variety of fertilizer products in comparison to their proprietary blend.

Lewis Baarda is out with the new two-row potato planter to get spuds in the ground at Farming Smarter!

This was the last push to wrap up seeding for our one of our first potato research trials. Stay tuned for updates on this exciting project!

Our Conservation Agronomy, Ashley Wagenaar, is out in the field with an update on her program at Farming Smarter! This summer, you can find her around southern Alberta showing off on-farm research with numerous growers to try out innovative research.

Keep an eye out for her pop-up field events throughout the season!

Mike Gretzinger, Farming Smarter Research Coordinator & Agronomy Research Lead, is here to share an update at our Saving Soils Cover Crop project, funded by RBC Tech for Nature & Weston Family Foundation. The team is taking biomass samples, checking PRS soil probes and Delta T moisture probe.

We recently finished spring seeding in all of our cover crop trials. This project sees corn, canola, drybeans seeded into three different cover crop management practices: untreated check, sprayed & disced pre-spring seeding, and "living mulch".