Province will work with the University of Lethbridge to combine on-the-ground measurements with airborne LiDAR
Glacier FarmMedia – The Alberta government is working with a research team at the University of Lethbridge to measure the snowpack in southern Alberta more accurately, according to a news release. The measurements will help guide water management policies and practices as the province works to better manage its water resources. For seven months of […] Read moreTag Archives University of Lethbridge
Potential exists for high spring ’hopper hatch
Latest forecast indicates migratory grasshoppers likely to emerge in a large cluster this spring rather than more gradually
MEDICINE HAT — The number of crop-damaging grasshoppers has been rising in southern and eastern Alberta since 2021 and conditions favour the trend to continue, according to the latest forecast. The warm, dry fall and early winter may have created a situation in which most southern Alberta grasshoppers have entered diapause, a type of hibernation […] Read more
Can upland rice make it on the Prairies?
Rice needs about 20 inches of water, about the same as irrigated sugar beet and potato crops require in southern Alta.
Scientists are trying to prove that raising rice on the windswept prairies of southern Alberta is not as unlikely as it might first appear. There is a common misconception that rice can only be grown in flooded fields or paddies in Asia, said Michele Konschuh, an irrigated crop scientist at the University of Lethbridge. However, […] Read more
