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

Farmer Appreciation Night

When?
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.

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.

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Agriculture,General Meeting,In-person,Livestock,Speaker Presentation

NPARA Annual General Meeting

When?
Where?
Legion Hall, Manning, Alberta

Our Annual General Meeting will be at 9:00 A.M on March 27th 2023 at the Manning Legion Hall. At the meeting we will…
– Have a Short Business Meeting
– Provide an Overview of Current and Future Projects
– Show our Annual Report
– Have Jenna Butler provide a speaker presentation.

Jenna Butler is an author and scholar whose research into endangered environments has taken her from America’s Deep South to the Arctic Circle, exploring the ways in which we navigate the landscapes we call home.
Butler lives with three resident moose and a den of coyotes on an off-grid organic farm in Alberta’s North Country.

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Agriculture,Grant/Funding,In-person,Livestock,Technology,Webinar

OFCAF Workshop and Webinar

When?
Where?
NPARA Office - Manning

Either join us in person for some coffee with your laptop or online to go through and prepare applications for the On-Farm Climate Action Fund that opens up February 13th.

Federal grants, through the Agricultural Climate Solutions On-Farm Climate Action Fund (OFCAF) is available for the expenses of cover crops, nitrogen fertilizer, and rotational grazing
Eligible expenses that you can be paid back up to 85% or $75k include:
– Cover crop seed and cost of seeding
– Nitrogen-loss inhibitors, the cost difference between urea and ESN fertilizer and manure hauling
– New custom perimeter fence around crop land for post-harvest grazing, portable electric fencing equipment and Cross-fencing
– Solar panel powered waterers that support rotational grazing
– Legume seed such as alfalfa, sainfoin, cicer milkvetch, hairy vetch, and birds foot trefoil seed

Funding for this project (in part) has been provided by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada through the Agricultural Climate Solutions – On-Farm Climate Action Fund.

RSVP to learn more about OFCAF funding!!!

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Agriculture,Grant/Funding,In-person,Livestock,Technology

EFP Workshop

When?
Where?
NPARA Office - Manning

Bring your laptops and notebooks to the NPARA Office at 9:00 AM on February 2nd.
Coffee will be made and your local EFP technician(Lance) will be available to dedicate his time to help you fill in the EFP workbook so that you may get your certificate.

Certificates may be needed for certain Canadian Agricultural Partnership Grants.

If you have questions or would like to attend, please contact Josée or Lance at 780-836-3354

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Agriculture,Agronomy,In-person,Livestock,Soil Health,Speaker Presentation

OFCAF Program Overview - Information Session

When?
Where?
Manning Fire Hall

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.

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Click Here to Learn More About OFCAF
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Agriculture,In-person,Livestock,Speaker Presentation

2-Day Working Stock Dog Training Clinic

When?
Where?
Battle River Agricultural Grounds - Manning, AB

Join us for a 2-day stock dog training clinic at the indoor riding arena (Manning Rodeo Grounds). If you have a dog (1 year or older preferably) you would like to train, or if you just want to observe how the training occurs, this would be an excellent clinic for you. Instructor Sarah Martin (GS Ranch) will go through both scenarios, and get you comfortable with training your dog for moving cattle and/or sheep. Training will take place with sheep.  Lunch provided on both days.

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Click Here to Learn More About Sarah Martin (GS Ranch)
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Agriculture,In-person,Livestock,Speaker Presentation

Low-stress Livestock Handling Workshop - Live Demonstration (Dylan Biggs, TK Ranch)

When?
Where?
North of Manning

Event starts at 9am at the Manning Legion Hall with a presentation. After lunch, Dylan Biggs (TK Ranch) will be conducting a live demonstration on the basics of good handling techniques, and delve further into low-stress techniques. Live demonstration will be held just north of Manning (4 miles west off of highway 35). Lunch included.

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

Forage Tour

When?
Where?
NPARA Research Farm - North Star, AB

Join us for a forage tour at the NPARA research farm on August 5th (10am-3pm). Guest speaker Barry Yaremcio (Yaremcio Ag Consulting Ltd) will do a presentation and accompany for a walking tour of the annual and perennial forage plots. Topics include: crop staging for maximizing cattle gains with annual forages, and the use of alternative feed for ration balancing. Free event. Lunch will be provided.

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Click Here to Learn More About Barry Yaremcio
Grazing Workshop - Feb 23rd, 2022 (2)
In-person,Livestock,Soil Health

Grazing Workshop

When?
Where?
Legion Hall, Manning, Alberta

Join us for an in-person meeting held at the Manning Legion Hall on February23rd. Topics include: 1) choosing and designing the annual cover crop mix to meet your goals, 2) optimizing perennials for stand establishment forage quality and productivity. For registration, click on the link below or contact the NPARA office(780) 836-3354 or lance@npara.ca.Lunch will be provided.

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Peace Beef Cattle Day(10) (002)
Agriculture,In-person,Livestock

Peace Beef Cattle Day

When?
Where?
Fairview

Join us Tuesday February 15th at the Dunvegan Motor Inn. Coffee will be on at 9:30am.

 

Topics include:

Profitability Through Management – Lance Stockbrugger CPA, CA

Livestock Disease Surveillance – Dr. Barbara Wilhelm

Herd Health on Pasture – Dr. Christa Harder

 

Due to AHS requirements this event will follow REP. Please bring proof of vaccination (QR codes) or a negative test. Limited space available. Register via the link below, or by calling (780) 523-4033.

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