Hope everyone is doing well and enjoying these beautiful late summer days.

The Perennia Ag Services team is hosting a Field Day for the OFCAF BMPs. Our extension team will showcase six demonstration plots including intercropping legumes in corn, forage recovery, understanding marigolds as a cover crop and more. This is a great opportunity to receive your OFCAF education credits or CCA credits and chat with our team about the BMPs. There are also a wide display of other plots including cereal and soybean efficacy, biochar in wheat, alfalfa varieties and the Maritime hybrid corn variety trial. At lunch there will be opportunity to peruse equipment and resources from local dealers such as Tidal Tractor, the Nova Scotia Federation, and more!

When: September 18th – 10am – 3pm

Where: The Perennia Fieldhouse – 6727 Brooklyn Street, Cambridge NS

Parking will be west of the Fieldhouse/address – Just look for the Perennia signs.

Lunch will be provided by Half Acre Cafe and sponsored by FaRM and Tidal Tractor

Please register so we have numbers for lunch by September 16th. Hope to see you there!



Other New Learning Resouces 

As many people may be busy chopping these days, there is new learning resources on our website and YouTube channel for easy access!

Nutrient Amendment Summer Series: This summer we completed a six-part series on nutrient amendments with Gordon Price, Av Singh, and Dave Burton. They go in depth on resource possibilities, amendment processing, how amendments impact mineralization, and the wonderful world of bio stimulants. Here is Video One of that six-part series Introduction to Nutrient Amendments – Session 1 (youtube.com)

Factsheet on Soil Texture: Physical properties such as soil texture can influence many factors such as drainage and buffering capacity, which then determine the fate of certain soil biological and chemical processes. These characteristics can then impact nutrient cycling and critical yield limiting nutrients such as nitrogen. Learn more from Caitlin McCavours new factsheet: Soil-Texture-FactsheetV3.pdf (perennia.ca)

Upcoming workshops: Take a look at our upcoming events and register at Training – OFCAF (perennia.ca). This includes:

  • Our Pasture Walks continue with the next one in Mabou, Cape Breton, (September 26)
  • Three days of Pasture Walks with Greg Judy in both NS and NL, (October 7, 8, and 12)
  • A Pasture Walk in Yarmouth with Evan Kleiner and Kari Brown (October 26)
  • Poultry Manure Management Workshop for commercial producers and users of poultry manure (October 24)
  • A Nutrient Management workshop in four locations in NS (Early December)

Thank you for reading and take lots of care everyone!

Georgia