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Irrigated and Specialty Crop Specialist
I provide horticulture crop producers with information and answers related to their various production-related questions.
Viterra
As global demand for agricultural commodities in food, animal feed, fibre and bio-fuels continues to grow, Viterra is well-positioned to meet this demand with the strength to compete globally. The company owns and operates Canada’s largest grain handling network.
DynAgra International
DynAgra develops and sells innovative solutions that meet both the economic and agronomic needs of today’s farmer. The organization is dedicated to helping growers maintain more productive and sustainable farm businesses through the continued innovation of agriculture products and services.
CanolaInfo
CanolaInfo is the information source for consumers, health professionals, chefs, media, educators – everyone who wants to know more about the “world’s healthiest oil” – canola.
Lacombe Research Centre
The Lacombe Research Centre, a research centre of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, is located in the town of Lacombe in central Alberta between the two large cities of Edmonton and Calgary, approximately 23 km north of Red Deer.
United Agri Products Canada Inc.
In the complex world of food production, United Agri Products Canada Inc. is helping meet the challenges of higher crop yields and healthier production practices. UAP is pleased to bring a wide range of proven crop production products to the agricultural and horticultural marketplace across Canada.
Canterra Seeds
Canterra Seeds presents a selection of top performing seed varieties from high-yielding canola hybrids with excellent lodging and disease resistance, to a versatile portfolio of cereals, pulses, and other important crop varieties for optimal performance for your growing area. A Canadian-owned company with more than 178 local shareholders, Canterra’s roots have spread globally with research, development and valuable relationships with plant breeders from around the world.
Western Grains Research Foundation
Western Grains Research Foundation (WGRF) is a farmer funded and directed organization set up to fund research that directly benefits Prairie farmers. The Foundation administers an Endowment Fund and the Wheat and Barley Check-off Funds. Annual research funding is $4 to $5 million.
EMD Crop BioScience
EMD Crop BioScience is the world’s leading developer of crop-enhancing products. The company takes a lead role in researching, developing and commercializing technologies that improve plant health. Bioscience that focuses on yield enhancement is helping to boost agricultural productivity worldwide.
Sod Farm Worker
Workers perform a variety of routine chores under the direction of the turf farm manager or supervisor, including: rock picking, irrigation, fence line boundary preparation, installing base mesh, seeding, fertilizing and harvesting.
General Labourer
his position, depending on farm and length of time, may include a variety of general chores such as: clean-up of calf barns, raking freestalls, general yard clean-up, weed control, haying, forage harvesting, rock picking, building and barn maintenance, painting, basic carpentry, and field work (tractor). These jobs may lead to other full-time positions on the farm or ranch depending on the willingness to work and attitude.
Equipment Operator
General farm chores include: scraping barns, providing bedding to free stalls and calf pens, daily safety inspection of equipment. Field work includes preparation for seeding, manure spreading and/or fertilizing, harvest work (i.e. forage, haying), driving forage (1 ton and over) truck. May require regular maintenance of equipment and barns, milking equipment, dairy yard, field and equipment maintenance.
Ranch Hand – Cowgirl or Cowboy
Working under the direction of a Ranch Foreman or Ranch Owner, main duties include: feeding and tending livestock, operation and maintenance of farm machinery, cleaning barns and pens, branding, and dehorning, fenceline (repair) and rangeland patrol either on motorcycle, horse, or truck, planting, irrigating and harvesting crops.
Ranch Foreman
The Foreman runs day to day operation of the ranch. Tasks include: supervision of ranch employees, basic accounting, livestock feeding, maintaining high quality herd health, breeding programs, branding, operation and maintenance of farm machinery and equipment. During calving season heifers (first time mothers) and cows require 24 hour monitoring, shift work shared by all employees.
Reduced Tillage LINKAGES
Reduced Tillage Linkage’s website is a source for the general public, farmers, and other agribusiness stakeholders to obtain information about the positive effects of reduced tillage initiatives. The program ended on August 31, 2009, but information in the Agronomy Library will be left online.
Alberta Pulse Growers Commission
The Alberta Pulse Growers represents farmers growing pulse crops in Alberta. It is the goal of the Alberta Pulse Growers to improve the net returns to the grower by providing responsible leadership toward the expansion of a mature, viable pulse industry in Alberta.
Alberta Crop Industry Development Fund
Alberta Crop Industry Development Fund (ACIDF) is an independent, not-for-profit company operating under the direction of the crop industry. ACIDF funds and supports selected crop related industry development activities, which include market development, research, and extension.
Battle River Research Group
Each year the Battle River Research Group (BRRG) conducts a wide range of applied research agronomy projects. Our major areas of emphasis are forage and livestock projects, direct seeding, herbicide evaluation, variety demonstrations, and special crops.
Canadian Society of Agronomy
The Canadian Society of Agronomy (CSA) is dedicated to enhancing cooperation and coordination among agronomists, to recognizing significant achievements in agronomy and to providing the opportunity to report and evaluate information pertinent to agronomy in Canada.
Western Barley Growers Association
The Western Barley Growers Association provides farmers with an informed and effective voice in the agriculture industry of western Canada. The Western Barley Growers Association is an influential farm organization which is voluntarily funded by a large membership made up of farmers, industry and end users.
Potato Growers of Alberta
The Potato Growers of Alberta (PGA) is a non-profit potato grower organization that aims to increase the success of the potato growing industry in the Alberta. To accomplish this, the PGA works on three fronts: education and extension, marketing and promotion, and research. The PGA is the voice of the potato industry in Alberta.
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