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Text Box: West Nile Virus Update: Alberta: Birds: 1203 tested, 88 positive Horses: 12 tested, 8 positive Humans: 362 tested, 6 positive Mosquitoes: 872 pools tested, 15 positive Grasshoppers Hopefully everyone was able to co-exist with the grasshoppers this year. A positive note is I have found a few hoppers clutching onto plants. This is most likely entomophaga which can spread very fast with the right conditions. One management tool you can use for reducing field infestations is by eliminating their food source Text Box: during egg laying. Some people feel late fall tillage helps, but research shows hoppers will hatch from 3” below so tillage is not very effective. Crops A large amount of sawfly has been found this year , so keep this in mind for next years crop planning. The M.D. is still spraying toadflax. If anyone needs some sprayed please let me know. Programs The Grasshopper program is over on September 30th, applications must be in by November 30th. There is still a water program available. Tree orders must be in by March 31st. The sooner you order the better your chance of getting what you want. Forms for the programs can be found on the ropin the web, website. If you don’t have access to the internet feel free to contact the staff at the M.D we will be happy to assist you. Text Box: AG—Fieldman’s Message -Burt Forbes Text Box: The Forage Association held their tour on August 13. A few producers showed up for the event and seemed to enjoy themselves. The tour didn’t really follow a schedule due to the detours we took around the area looking at other crops, but it definitely kept everyone interested. It’s time for me to say goodbye to everyone. This Summer has been great and I hope to return next summer. Thanks for a wonderful summer. I owe a large thanks to Burt for helping me out a lot this summer as well as saving my butt from the bad situations I got myself into on occasion. The plots just west of town on highway 13 turned out very good this year. The results we had from the clippings were very interesting. Wheat : Genesis: 9.95 tons/acre in wet state, 4.5 tons/acre in dry matter. Glenlea: 9.93 tons/acre in wet state, 5 tons/acre in dry matter. Text Box: Triticale: AC Alta: 10.35 tons/acre in wet state, 4.5 tons/acre in dry matter. AC Ultima: 9.33 tons/acre in wet state, 4.3 tons/acre in dry matter Oats: Derby: 10.62 tons/acre wet state. AC Medallion: 10.56 tons/acre wet state. Derby: 4.3 tons/acre dry matter Murphy: 3.9 tons/acre dry matter Barley: Duel: 11.51 tons/acre wet state AC Metcalf + Charter: 10.19 tons/acre wet state CDC Dolly: 4.8 tons/acre dry matter Duel: 4.7 tons/acre dry matter. Results of all the varieties will be posted in the annual report or for more information contact one of the Directors of the Association for full results. The Results from these variety clippings seem high but they are consistent throughout and are comparable. Text Box: tion and Kevin Yaworski from SeCan came to talk on the varieties they had in the plot west of Provost. Thank you to everyone who joined us for our annual tour and thank you to the producers who contributed to the projects for this year. Text Box: Project Tour 2003 Text Box: Tracy’s last few words Text Box: We had our project tour on August 13th. A few producers from around the area were able to join us . We visited the sage control site at Rick Hope’s, Golden German Millet at Todd Ranch, The Dutch Industry windmill at Bryon Mailer’s , Cow supplementation at Wyett Swanson’s, and the Silage Variety Plot just west of Provost on Steele’s land. The tour had a few detours on the way to check out some of the crops in the area, which seemed to make the tour a little more interesting. Audrey Bamber from the Chinook Applied Research AssociaText Box: Page # Text Box: Country Roads Text Box: Volume 2, Issue 4

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President’s Message

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Estate Planning

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Ag Fieldman’s Message

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Project Tour 2003

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Succession Plan

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