News & Updates from the CFGA Team

Kim Schneider presented, , The Role of Grazing Livestock in Supporting Sustainable Soil Management: Examples from Ontario, discussed the impact of implementing livestock into the farm system.

Danielle Walsh presentation "Planning for Tomorrow’s Harvest: Farm Succession Made Simple" provided practical tips to help families with their succession planning journey.

Marie-Pier Beaulieu, with the CQPF and a CFGA collaborator, presented at the CFGA’s 16th Annual Conference: Greener Horizons: Technological Innovations in Forage and Grassland Management.

This year marks the International Year of Rangelands and Pastoralists (IYRP), a global recognition of the people, landscapes and knowledge systems that sustain grasslands around the world.

Marie-Pier brought pasture planning into a new light by comparing pasture development to developing a winning hockey team. Like each player on the ice, each plant species plays an important role in keeping a pasture strong.

Joseph Graham (NBSCIA) spoke at the (CFGA) 16th Annual Conference to talk about drones and the opportunities they offer to agriculture. 

Ronnie Drever, Bronwyn Rayfield and Negar Tafti shared information about Tomorrow’s Prairies project at the Canadian Forage and Grassland Association’s (CFGA) 16th Annual Conference.

Examples of habitat identification, farmer incentives and remote monitoring to restore Bobolink Populations in the Maritimes

Jean-Philippe Laroch delivered the opening keynote message for the CFGA’s 16th Annual Conference: Greener Horizons: Technological Innovations in Forage and Grassland Management.