The 27th Annual Conference of the Saskatchewan Soil Conservation Association
"International Year of Soils"
January 12, 2015 - Prairieland Park, Saskatoon
8:00 a.m. Registration Opens
8:45 a.m. Welcome and Opening Remarks
- Technology Session
9:00 a.m. Keynote Speaker: Drones in Agriculture
- Chad Colby , www.AgTechTalk.com, Bloomington, Illinois, US VIEW PDF
10:30 a.m. Refreshment and Networking Break
11:00 a.m. Precision Planting
- Colin Rosengren, Farmer, Innovator and Entrepreneur, Midale SK VIEW POWERPOINT
11:30 a.m. Controlled Traffic Farming
- Peter Gamache, Controlled Traffic Farming Project Leader, Edmonton AB VIEW POWERPOINT
12:00 p.m. Luncheon
- Soils and Agronomy Session
1:00 p.m. Urban Agriculture: Fad or Future?
- Grant Wood, P.Ag, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Saskatchewan VIEW POWERPOINT
1:30 p.m. Harvesting Cattail: An Innovative Solution in a Watershed-based Bioeconomy
- Dr. Richard Grosshans, Senior Research Scientist, International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg MB VIEW POWERPOINT
2:00 p.m. Saskatchewan’s Most Wanted: the Worst Weeds in the West
- Chet Neufeld, P.Ag, Executive Director, Native Plant Society, Saskatoon SK VIEW POWERPOINT
2:30 p.m. Refreshment and Networking Break
2:45 p.m. Soil Ecology in Agriculture
- Dr. Sina Adl, Department of Soil Science, University of Saskatchewan VIEW POWERPOINT
3:15 p.m. Economic and Environmental Benefits of Zero-tillage Research
- Dr. Lana Awada, Department of Bioresource Policy, Business and Economics, University of Saskatchewan VIEW POWERPOINT
3:45 p.m. Wrap-up
4:00 p.m. SSCA AGM
CCAs: Conference Approved for 5.0 CEUs CM: 2.0 PM: 0.5 NM: 0.5 PD: 1.0 SW: 1.0 |
CCSCs: Approval Pending for 5.0 CEUs CM: 3.5 IPM: 0.5 PS: 1.0 |