Each month, the uLethbridge Agri-Food Summer Speaker Series brings producers and researchers together to discuss southern Alberta’s agriculture industry. Hear from the people who know this industry inside and out as they generate ideas and push the boundaries of our region's agriculture potential.
WHAT: Modern Crop Production: Challenges & Solutions
WHEN: Tuesday, July 27, 2021, 5:30 p.m.
WHERE: Online via Zoom, Register at EventBrite
WHO: Join Dr. Tom Jensen, a sessional soils instructor and adjunct U of L professor in the Department of Geography & Environment, and producer panelist Autumn Barnes (BSc ’09), an agronomy specialist with the Canola Council of Canada’s (CCC) Crop Production & Innovation team.
Growers on the Canadian prairies produce more canola than farmers anywhere else. Used to make everything from vegetable oil to animal feed, the success of this key southern Alberta crop is being threatened by current hot, dry conditions.
Worried about drought, heat damage and supply issues, today’s producers depend more than ever on guidance from agronomists and soil scientists, and of course improved cultivars, to mitigate downside risks from poor weather and other natural threats.
Do more information and advanced technology actually enable growers to mine soil nutrients more quickly? Will it be enough to sustain productivity in challenging years?
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Contact:
Trevor Kenney, News & Information Manager
403-360-7639 (cell)
trevor.kenney@uleth.ca
@uLethbridge
