Page Title

Site hosted by Angelfire.com: Build your free website today!

Text Box: July has now come and gone and much of the silaging and haying around the area has been done or is in the process of being done. As silaging and haying passes by, we will be getting ready for harvest time. There doesn’t seem to be much progress in the BSE case, which has many worried about what will happen to the cattle industry. All we can do is wait and see what the outcome will be. This process may take more than a few weeks. Just hold in there everyone we will get through this. The East Central Alberta Forage Association has been busy work

Text Box: ing on many of our projects. The tour that was set for July was rescheduled due to silaging. The E.C.A.F.A plot tour has been scheduled for August 11th. The projects that the forage association are busy with are coming along quite well. The forage plots are doing great and the amount of moisture they received in the spring helped them along quite well. The horn fly trap had a few set backs and had to have a few repairs done on it, but it is in working order again. The Association is monitoring a few different fields of tame millet in the area and we will have

Text Box: results from that in the annual report. We are continuing on with the sage control project and we have gained a new cooperator who is trying both Grazon and 24-D. The 24-D seems to be working quite well controlling his sage. For more information on our projects or if you have any project ideas that you would like to see take place, please contact any of the directors of the East Central Alberta Forage Association or phone the office @ 780-753-6227

Text Box: It appears that my summer is almost finished and I’m happy to report that I am going back to Olds College for Crop and Agri-food technology, majoring in Crop Advisor. I graduated from Olds in 2002 with an Agriculture Production diploma, but I have decided I want a little more. Although I am excited to go back to school, I wish I had a little more time here in Provost to get to know the area better as well as the producers. We have been working on the projects continuously. The cereal varieties plot has been coming along very well. The barley and canola are now ready to be clipped for data purposes, while the other varieties are not quite ready yet.

Text Box: The Perennial forage varieties are starting to come through but had a little set back with the dry weather. However now with this small amount of rain I am sure they will be just fine. The Cow supplementation project is going well. We have two groups with 21 pairs in each. One group for control and the other group for supplementing. The supplement group is being fed a mixture of cracked corn, pea screenings, canola oil, soybean meal, calcium, rumensin, beef premix and salt. We are feeding the supplementation group every other day at a rate of 4kgs/cow, which works out to 2kgs/cow/day. The cows in the supplement group are getting used to me

Text Box: coming around and don’t seem to run away like they did in the beginning. The horn fly trap is in a waiting period right now, we have a new batch of animals this year who aren’t quite sure what to think of the trap yet. We will hopefully have them convinced soon so we can do our study with the trap. Our projects tour in this area is set for August 11th. For more information on any of our projects or tours please contact me: Office: 780-753-6227 Cells: 780-753-1045 (during the day) or 403-308-5964 (evenings and weekends).

Return to MAIN WEBSITE
President’s Message	1
Tracy’s Two Cents	1
Ag—Fieldman’s Message	2
Pasture Project/ Cow Supplementation	3
Silage and Perennial Forage Variety plot	3
Project Tour	3
Estate Planning	4