Innovative Farmers Agricultural Bus Tour 2009
The 2009 Agricultural Bus Tour of Indiana and Illinois is shaping up to be the best ever.
Five days of friendly, interesting travel and innovative farming ideas.
Grow your mind and your contacts with us this summer. Here are just some of the items on the tour.
• • The Monsanto Learning Center — an 850 acre research facility where you'll see what's coming to your farm today, tomorrow, and in 10 years.
• • A unique collaborative fish/vegetable operation using fish sludge as fertilizer for vegetable production
• • Biotown in Indiana using 600 wind turbines for energy resources and working toward a goal of total energy self sufficiency.
• • Family-run dairy farm and cheese operation marketing cheese products internationally.
• • New grass varieties and experimental soybean production in Shirley, IL.
• • Two-stage ditch project.
NBSCIA is a member so Soil & Crop members get the member price.
Cost: IFAO Members - $500 / Non-members $575 - no GST
Price includes coach & accommodations.
All accommodation includes breakfast, other meals not included.
Deadline to register is July 31, 2009, if not filled before that date.
For more information, contact Jim & Lorraine House
Phone 519-769-2443, Fax 519-769-2777
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Crop profiles
Crop Profiles from the Pesticide Risk Reduction Program for twenty-nine crops are accessible for download on the Government of Canada Publications web site.
http://www4.agr.gc.ca/AAFC-AAC/display-afficher.do?id=1181157779290&lang=eng
http://www4.agr.gc.ca/AAFC-AAC/display-afficher.do?id=1181157779290&lang=eng
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Maritime Pasture Manual
A Maritime Pasture Manual is now available on AgraPoint's website: http://www.extensioncentral.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=167&Itemid=119
Pollination Forum
June 12 & 13 Pollination Forum: Workshop & Field Tour Atlantic Organic Berry Network. Don't miss this opportunity to learn with a team of experts about natural pollinator species and strategies for increasing and protecting their health and biodiversity. Keynote speaker Dr. Peter Kevan is regarded as one of the most active pollination biologists worldwide and he is excited to connect pollination research with berry producers. All of this and more at the upcoming Pollination Forum, June 12 at the Farm Centre in Charlottetown with a field tour June 13 in Montague. Cost is $45 Friday lunch included. For more information or to register (by June 10th) contact ACORN at 1-866-32-ACORN (22676) or e-mail admin@acornorganic.org.
Building With Straw Bales
June 6, July 11 & August 22
The Basics of Building with Straw Bale
A 3-part series. Interested in getting started on a straw-bale home? Join us to learn some of the basics of straw-bale design in a three-part series of summer workshops. The workshops will consist of a balance of theory, history and hands-on practice. Participants will have a chance to see two existing homes and will have a chance to practice new skills on a load-bearing home that is under construction. June 6: Rubble Trench Foundations: Theory and design; July 11: The Framing Components of Straw Bale; August 22: Putting it All Together: Raising the walls and roof. Cost: $75 per workshop, or register for all 3 sessions for $200! Cost includes a home-cooked organic lunch. Bursaries are available on a needs basis. For more information, please contact alison@fallsbrookcentre.ca or 375-4310. Falls Brook Centre is located at 125 South Knowlesville Road, Knowlesville, New Brunswick.
The Basics of Building with Straw Bale
A 3-part series. Interested in getting started on a straw-bale home? Join us to learn some of the basics of straw-bale design in a three-part series of summer workshops. The workshops will consist of a balance of theory, history and hands-on practice. Participants will have a chance to see two existing homes and will have a chance to practice new skills on a load-bearing home that is under construction. June 6: Rubble Trench Foundations: Theory and design; July 11: The Framing Components of Straw Bale; August 22: Putting it All Together: Raising the walls and roof. Cost: $75 per workshop, or register for all 3 sessions for $200! Cost includes a home-cooked organic lunch. Bursaries are available on a needs basis. For more information, please contact alison@fallsbrookcentre.ca or 375-4310. Falls Brook Centre is located at 125 South Knowlesville Road, Knowlesville, New Brunswick.
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Minor Use Label Expansion
KOCIDE FUNGICIDE FOR SUPPRESSION OF SEED-BORNE BACTERIAL DISEASES ON DRY EDIBLE BEANS AND SUCCULENT BEANS
The Pest Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA) recently announced the approval of a minor use label expansion for Kocide ® 2000 Fungicide for suppression of seed-borne bacterial diseases including Common Blight, Halo Blight and Bacterial Brown Spot on Dry Edible Beans and Succulent Beans in Canada.
Kocide 2000, a relatively new product in Canada, was already labelled for management of halo and common blights by foliar sprays on beans, bacterial spot on peppers and greenhouse seedlings for transplants, for early and late blights on potatoes and for early blight, septoria leaf spot on tomatoes and bacterial spot on greenhouse seedlings for transplant productions. This is the 1st minor use registration of Kocide 2000 on a crop grown in Canada.
This registration will provide bean growers with a much needed fungal management tool to help manage one of their most challenging fungal problems. Seed transmitted bacterial diseases have been a minor use priority for bean producers for many years in Canada.
In 2004 this minor use project was initiated by the Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Pest Management Centre (AAFC-PMC) Minor Use Pesticide Program.
This label expansion, achieved through the User Requested Minor Use Label Expansion (URMULE) process of PMRA, was sponsored by AAFC-PMC in response to minor use priorities established by bean producers, processors, extension personnel and researchers in Canada.
The sponsors wish to thank the personnel of DuPont Canada for their support of this registration.
For copies of the new minor use label contact:
Nadine Lavigne, Pest Management Centre.
Email: nadine.lavigne@agr.gc.ca Telephone: 613-759-6176
Or the registrant DuPont Canada
Telephone:1-(800) 387-2122
Website: http://www2.dupont.com/Agriculture/en_CA/
The Pest Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA) recently announced the approval of a minor use label expansion for Kocide ® 2000 Fungicide for suppression of seed-borne bacterial diseases including Common Blight, Halo Blight and Bacterial Brown Spot on Dry Edible Beans and Succulent Beans in Canada.
Kocide 2000, a relatively new product in Canada, was already labelled for management of halo and common blights by foliar sprays on beans, bacterial spot on peppers and greenhouse seedlings for transplants, for early and late blights on potatoes and for early blight, septoria leaf spot on tomatoes and bacterial spot on greenhouse seedlings for transplant productions. This is the 1st minor use registration of Kocide 2000 on a crop grown in Canada.
This registration will provide bean growers with a much needed fungal management tool to help manage one of their most challenging fungal problems. Seed transmitted bacterial diseases have been a minor use priority for bean producers for many years in Canada.
In 2004 this minor use project was initiated by the Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Pest Management Centre (AAFC-PMC) Minor Use Pesticide Program.
This label expansion, achieved through the User Requested Minor Use Label Expansion (URMULE) process of PMRA, was sponsored by AAFC-PMC in response to minor use priorities established by bean producers, processors, extension personnel and researchers in Canada.
The sponsors wish to thank the personnel of DuPont Canada for their support of this registration.
For copies of the new minor use label contact:
Nadine Lavigne, Pest Management Centre.
Email: nadine.lavigne@agr.gc.ca Telephone: 613-759-6176
Or the registrant DuPont Canada
Telephone:1-(800) 387-2122
Website: http://www2.dupont.com/Agriculture/en_CA/
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Pest Management Updates
The Pest Management Centre at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada has new information available on its website. Visit the PMC Website or click on the hyperlinks below for the latest pest management information.
The Pesticide Risk Reduction Strategies section has been expanded and updated. There is general information on strategies and selecting priorities, as well as strategy documents detailing progress for the following specific issues:
Apple Scab
Chickpea Ascochyta Blight
Grasshopper
A number of factsheets are available under the Document and Publications Archive > factsheets section:
Pest Management Centre Progress in ….(6 factsheets hyperlinked mid page)
Carrot foliage trimmer
Biopesticides for fireblight
Under Crop Profiles > the Cranberry crop profile has been published and can be viewed on-line.
The Pesticide Risk Reduction Strategies section has been expanded and updated. There is general information on strategies and selecting priorities, as well as strategy documents detailing progress for the following specific issues:
Apple Scab
Chickpea Ascochyta Blight
Grasshopper
A number of factsheets are available under the Document and Publications Archive > factsheets section:
Pest Management Centre Progress in ….(6 factsheets hyperlinked mid page)
Carrot foliage trimmer
Biopesticides for fireblight
Under Crop Profiles > the Cranberry crop profile has been published and can be viewed on-line.
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