I'll help promote your field day

I can't make it to every field day across the Prairies, so the least I can do is help spread the word. If you're in a grower group or a seed retailer or with a government-funded agency, you're probably planning a summer plot tour. Send me the details — including plot details, directions, time and date, and a contact person —  and I'll post them on my blog. 

Lee Hart wrote a short piece for Grainews about the Chinook Applied Research Association (CARA) field day July 8.

Here are the details:

About 25 different field-scale and research plot size trials have been established on farmland near Chinook, which is east of Hanna along Highway 9. Most of the plots, seeded in late April, compare a variety of fertilizer or nutrient treatments on hard red spring wheat. There are side-by-side comparisons of seed and foliar treatments with products such as Omex micronutrients, Alpine phosphate enhancement product, and Power Rich micronutrients and foliar fertilizers.

There is also a compost demonstration sites, and CARA has established some disease demonstration sties. Along with the research trials, there will be several speakers available during the day, including Rod Whitfield, vice president of the Royal Bank of Canada, Dan Hawkins with FarmLink Marketing Solutions, and Brent Tarasoff, agrologist with Field Quest Consulting of Red Deer. 

Time: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Location: 4.5 kilometres (three miles) west of Chinook and one-half kilometre south. Lunch is available on site. There will be signs. For more information contact CARA at 403-664-3777.

The photo, from Richard Pitman of the Hanna Herald, shows students from area high schools at an April 29 field day to seed plots for the July 8 event.