Agriculture Canada’s Lethbridge Research Centre has released new research guides for manure management, forage and potato production.
They are available free to Western Canada’s producers, industry and extension.
Manure management
This program has developed in response to the increase in intensive livestock operations and heightened environmental awareness by the public. Research focuses on use of manure as a resource, rather than its disposal as a waste.
It highlights manure management research at the centre and contains information from Jessica Davis, an extension specialist and manure management expert from Colorado State University, who spoke at Lethbridge this summer and fall.
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For copies, contact Frank Larney, manure management program leader via e-mail at larney@em.agr.ca or use the address at the end of the article.
Potato research program
Western Canada’s potato industry is fast becoming a powerhouse.
The centre is working with producers and industry to bring about continued success. The relationship was formalized in 1994 with the Western Canadian Potato Consortia, a business initiative aimed at making producer groups and industry direct partners in the potato program.
Potato researchers at the centre are using high-tech tools such as biotechnology blended with traditional methods to improve disease resistance in the breeding population and produce varieties with superior agronomic and market characteristics.
For copies of the Potato Program Advance, contact Dermot Lynch, consortia co-project manager via e-mail at lynchd@em.agr.ca.
New growth in forages
Today’s forage research is more than building a better alfalfa. At Lethbridge, scientists are developing superior varieties of traditional forages such as alfalfa and are also introducing new crops, such as fenugreek and perennial cereal rye.
They are improving production systems to increase forage productivity.
This combined effort will further tap the growing potential in forages. The program is part of the centre’s national mandate for beef production research and a link in the regional crop development network.
The guide provides industry with an overview of the direction and potential of the forage program.
For copies of the Forage Program Advance contact Surya Acharya, forage program leader through e-mail at acharya@em.agr.ca. or use the address at the end of the article.
