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We publish all our research results plus extension activities in our yearly annual report. Members and major funders receive Annual Reports each year.
Contact us if you would like a past Annual Report at extension@npara.ca

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2024
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Cereals,Wheat

2024 CPS Wheat Variety Trial

Regional variety trials provide locally-based insight into which crops are most capable of succeeding in the Peace region. During field tours, producers are offered the opportunity to observe on-site characteristics such as emergence, height, disease rates, and maturity. Harvest characteristics including yield, test weight, and protein content are compared in the fall.

These CPS wheat varieties were chosen for the 2024 trial by a survey completed by producers in the County of Northern Lights:
CS Accelerate
AAC Goodwin
AAC Penhold
AAC Foray
AAC Rimbey
AAC Westlock

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2024
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Cereals,Wheat

2024 CWRS Wheat Variety Trial

Regional variety trials provide locally-based insight into which crops are most capable of succeeding in the Peace region. During field tours, producers are offered the opportunity to observe on-site characteristics such as emergence, height, disease rates, and maturity. Harvest characteristics including yield, test weight, and protein content are compared in the fall.

These CWRS wheat varieties were chosen for the 2024 trial by a survey completed by producers in the County of Northern Lights:
AAC Brandon
AAC Viewfield
AAC Wheatland
AAC Hodge
AC Stettler
CS Tracker

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2023
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Off site

2023 Peace Region Living Lab Co-benefits

The Peace Region Living Lab is a strategy from Agriculture and Agri-food Canada to promote the use of best management practices in agriculture in various agricultural field zones across the country. The idea is to create a data compilation of parameters observed in growers field and use this data to compare and assess the impact of sustainable versus conventional agricultural practices.

As part of the living labs project, NPARA monitors these parameters over ten fields in total, five of them are conventionally managed and the other five follow BMP practices.

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2023
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Off site

2023 Water Quality

The County of Northern Lights (the County) and the North Peace Applied Research Association (NPARA) have maintained an ongoing water quality monitoring program in the Notikewin and Keg rivers since 2011. The study was designed and implemented by Aquality Environmental Consulting Ltd. (Aquality). The purpose of the study was to gather baseline water quality information for a complete suite of parameters, for future planning of land use and environmental management activities on the two rivers, and to determine water quality for use as a drinking and agricultural water source.

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2023
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Cereals,Triticale,Wheat

2023 Relay Cropping - Peace Region Living Lab

In collaboration with the Peace Region Living Lab project, we are demonstrating how different cropping systems affect growth, yield, soil health and weed control to see which BMP strategies could be successful in the Peace Region.

This trial will explore the practice of seeding ryegrass, fall rye, winter wheat and winter triticale into a newly seeded wheat crop. We will use GPS and RTK to align the drills so that the winter crops are seeded mid row. We will also look at 2 seeding rates for the winter crop. The light rate should still improve soil health but not steal moisture and nutrients from the following crop. The heavier seeding rate should improve soil health and still provide a strong crop the next year.

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2023
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Canola,Cereals,Oilseed,Pea,Pulses,Wheat

2023 Intercropping - Peace Region Living Lab

In collaboration with the Peace Region Living Lab project, we are demonstrating how different cropping systems affect growth, yield, soil health and weed control to see which BMP strategies could be successful in the Peace Region.

Objectives:

1. To build off previous research in the peace and to further identify which cereal or oilseed crop performs best with the most successful legume crops currently grown in the Peace region (field peas). Economic analysis will consider crop yield, market price, input costs, labor, and seed separation.
2. To investigate the optimum amount of N fertilizer required for intercrops in the Peace region.
3. To evaluate weed control, fertility, soil health and economics.

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2023
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Annual,Canola,Cereals,Forages,Oilseed,Wheat

2023 Companion Cropping - Peace Region Living Lab

In collaboration with the Peace Region Living Lab project, we are demonstrating how different cropping systems affect growth, yield, soil health and weed control to see which BMP strategies could be successful in the Peace Region.

Our companion cropping trial involves seeding three different types of annual clover with either canola or wheat:

  • Crimson clover
  • White clover
  • Subterranean clover

Objectives:

1. Investigate if the establishment and growth of annual clover species sown previously to main cash crops such as wheat and canola.
2. Determine which method provides the best establishment of both annual clover species and cash crop: seed drill or broadcast.
3. To evaluate weed control, fertility, soil health and economics.

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2023
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Canola,Cereals,Cover Crop,Oilseed,Pea,Pulses,Wheat

2023 Deep-rooted Cover Crop

Objectives:
• Determine the impact of this cropping system on soil drainage and water holding capacity
• Provide evidence to producers that spring sown cover crops aid to increase water availability in the soil
• Encourage adoption of agricultural sustainable practices and build resiliency to climate change side effects such as flooding and drought

This project was made possible by funding from RDAR (Results Driven Agriculture Research).

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