OFCAF Program Overview – Information Session

Manning Fire Hall Past Event Agriculture, Agronomy, In-person, Livestock, Soil Health, Speaker Presentation

If you haven’t had a chance to fill out an application, or may still have questions, join us for an in-person event and have your questions answered! The On-Farm Climate Action Fund is a program aimed at providing financial assistance to producers that are, or have, adopted best management practices, and covers three stream: 1) nitrogen management, 2) cover cropping, and 3) rotational grazing.

Oct 11, 2022

Upcoming Events

Jan 25, 2023

Agriculture,Dinner Event,In-person,Livestock,Speaker Presentation

Farmer Appreciation Night

When? Wed, Mar 29th at 5:00 pm

Where?

Battle River Agricultural Grounds - Manning, AB

Farmer Appreciation Night is back! Join us 5:00pm March 29th at the Battle Ag Hall for an entertaining night and meal. NPARA will be hosting the event in order to recognize our valued producers. The event is open to all people of all ages and there will be door prizes.

Main Entertainment
Stephan Robinson
Stephen is a professional speaker, Youtuber and expert at using failure to make learning effective and efficient.
Stephen Robinson has spent the past four years learning over a 130 new skills, and documenting the process of learning those skills. He most well known for learning how to solve a Rubik’s cube while skydiving, but has many other skills on his resumé

Stephen has leveraged this collection of experiences into a fantastic and unique talk, which central themes touch on the value of failure, persistence and why you should always be bad at something.

Interested in attending but missed the RSVP and Ticket deadline? Contact us – 780-836-0641

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Feb 24, 2023

Agriculture,Agronomy,In-person,Speaker Presentation,Technology

AG Drone School - Weberville

When? Mon, Apr 17th at 9:00 am

Where?

Weberville Community Center

Everyone is welcome at the Ag Drone School, from teenagers to retired agronomists, from government environmental agency staff to agtech entrepreneurs. You don’t even need to have a drone — only about ¼ of attendees already have an RPAS, many are just taking the course because they want to learn about it before purchasing anything.

After completion of day two, you will have your legal drone license (If you choose to take the Online Transport Canada test), drone flying experience, and additional information on drone use in the Agriculture industry.

During the course, Land View will talk about the uses & limitations of this technology for agriculture and exactly how you would go about using the data. We’ll discuss what is possible in vegetative remote sensing now and demonstrate exactly what sensors & software you would use on your farm.

Land View’s Ag Drone School deals with every aspect of productive, safe, and legal use of remotely piloted aerial systems by farmers & agronomists. Topics covered include:

Introduction to Remote Sensing of Vegetation
NDVI and other vegetative indexes
Data accuracy: sensor types and calibration
Future of crop imaging … hyperspec, thermal, machine learning
From fly to apply: software workflows
Use cases: the many uses of drones on farms
Knowledge Requirements for Small Basic Operations:
- Air law, air traffic rules and procedures
- RPAS airframes, power plants, propulsion and systems
- Human factors
- Meteorology
- Navigation
- Flight operations
- Theory of flight
- Radiotelephony

Seem like something you would be interested in?

Register on the Land View Ag Drone School Website

View Peace River Ag Drone School PDF

Cost is $490 for two full days including lunches
$590 with a DJI Tello drone to keep for practice.
Contact Land View Drones if wanting Advanced Certificate training for $499.

Additional fee
Online Transport Canada test (optional, $10 fee payable to Transport Canada)

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AG Drone School

Mar 20, 2023

Agriculture,Agronomy,Cattle,In-person,Livestock

Forage Systems - Opportunities and Benefits

When? Wed, Apr 19th at 9:00 am

Where?

Manning Fire Hall

Join us April 19th, 9:00 at the Manning Fire Hall for a cattle seminar. Dr. Bart Lardner will be presenting research and information on grazing, feeding and nutrient management. Guaranteed to be a beneficial event for cattle producers.

Dr. Bart Lardner is a professional agrologist, senior research scientist, professor, educator, previously beef producer, cowboy, country/western band member and bull-rider.

He specializes and completes research in…

Beef cattle nutrition
Forage and pasture management
Cost effective heifer development
Effect of maternal nutrition on fetal programming
Management of alternative calving systems
Application of commercially available genomic technology
Nutrient cycling in winter feeding systems
Nutrient management in summer and winter grazing programs
Supplementation strategies for low quality beef cow diets
Water quality for beef cattle

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OFCAF Program Overview – Information Session

Farmer Appreciation Night

AG Drone School - Weberville

Forage Systems - Opportunities and Benefits

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