Professional Documents
Culture Documents
8:40 - 9:20 Consumer Demand for Organics (Marquis Room) with Tia Loftsgard
Strategies for
Cows vs. Climate Seed Saving: Weed Intercropping
Change Looking at the Management in Your Grain Crops*
11:00 - 12:00 the Transition with Ward
with Nicolette Hahn How-To's
Middleton & Joe
Niman with Shane Woods Years* Wecker
with Anne Kirk
Organic No-Till:
How Can We
What's up with Nutrient
Livestock Feed Reduce Tillage A Fair Deal for
CSA's?* Management on Regenerative
2:00 - 2:50 Markets with Daniel
in Organic Grain
Organic Farms* Agriculture
with Ryan Koory Chappell, John Mills Production?* with Kim Cornish
with Anne Kirk
& Mike Kozlowski with Justin Duban,
James Bozarth &
Keith Bamford
Maximizing
Trade Show / Break (4:00 - 4:20 PM) Organic Hemp Yields
4:00 - 5:50 (4:30 PM) with
Digging Deeper (4:30 - 5:50 PM, Marquis Room) Alden Braul
7:30 - 9:30 Networking / Evening Entertainment (Marquis Room) - Music by Lance Loree and Toby Malloy
* Symbol indicates Continuing Education Unit for Certified Crop Advisor Program available. See session description for details.
TRAILBLAZER 1 TRAILBLAZER 2 FRONTIER MARQUIS BUSINESS
ROOM LOOKOUT
ROOM ROOM ROOM ROOM
Adaptive Agriculture
8:30 - 9:20
(Marquis Room) with Monica Kohler, Kris Vester, Amber Kenyon & Heather Kerschbaumer
Indigenous
Agriculture:
So You Just Got
Owning More of Reclaiming Culture
and Producing Home From a Soil
the Value-Chain: Plant Protein
Food for Health
Considerations Market Updates
9:30 - 10:20 Community Workshop...*
for On-Farm with Ryan Cameron, with Dennis
Resilience McKnight
Processing Cody Straza, Justin
with Kathy Bosse with Julie Price, Erica Duban & Yamily
Wood, Geordie Wood, Zavala
Robert Guilford & Carl
McCorrister
2:50 - 3:20 Break / Silent Auction Announcement / Trade Show (Marquis Room)
3:30 - 4:20 We Decided to Sell the Farm - What's Next? (Marquis Room) with Don Ruzicka, Andrea Weibe & Dana Penrice
4:20 - 5:00 How Organics Can Fight Climate Change (Marquis Room) with Tracy Misiewicz
* Symbol indicates Continuing Education Unit for Certified Crop Advisor Program available. See session description for details.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 9TH
Organic Management of Herd and Flock Health Cows vs. Climate Change
(9:30-10:20 AM) - An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. (11:00 - 12:00 PM) - Our big ruminant friends got a lot of bad media
Hear from experienced organic farmers on their approach to health when it comes to their carbon footprint. Better management
management. Mike Froese will share his experience in organic practices may be the secret to turning cattle into an ally in the
poultry farming and Dorothy Marshall will share her insights on fight against climate change.
ruminant health.
Our Tradeshow Participants:
AFSC, AOPA, Arjazon Seed Trading, Bourgault Tillage Tools, Cropland Solutions, EcoCert, Farm Business Consultants, Fresh Hemp
Foods/Manitoba Harvest, Frontlink, Gateway Research Organization, Grain Millers, Grassroots Organic Dirt Supplements, Green Bros Farm,
Greener Pastures Ranching, Health Canada, Hemp Production Services, High Brix Manufacturing Inc., Man@Machine, McRae Holding Ltd.,
National Farmers’ Union, New Leaf Essentials, Norwex, NutraSun Foods, OCIA International, Peavey Mart, Penergetic, Pipeline Foods, ProCert,
Richardson Milling, RW Organic, Sani-Marc, SonTanner Sales, Steam ‘N’ Weeds, Taurus Agricultural Marketing, TCO Cert, Terralink
Horticulture/Bio-Fert Manufacturing, The Jolly Table, Westaqua, Willsie Equipment Sales, XPT Grain, Young Agrarians
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 9TH
Digging Deeper
(4:30 - 5:50 PM) - Have you ever attended a conference where there just wasn’t enough time? Where you didn’t get to touch on the most
pressing things on your mind or on your farm? This part of the conference is designed for just that reason. Connect with fellow farmers,
industry, community and experts to discuss what matters most to you. Participants will design the afternoon schedule by bringing topics
of conversation forward. Conversations will convene around these topics with like-minded people.
Getting Results with Great Compost Going Beyond the Standard: Beef Marketing
(12:50 - 1:40 PM) - Join a farmer and soil scientist for this (1:50 - 2:40 PM) - 3rd party certification can be a great tool to help
interactive panel on the importance of using good quality compost your consumers understand more about your farm and product.
and compost teas. Learn from their experience on what tools and What are the options for beef farmers? This panel will discuss the
resources are helpful for farmers to get started or continue to pros, cons and considerations for organic certification, grass-fed
integrate compost on to the farm. *Nutrient Management CEU certification and supplier certification (in this example A&W).
So You Just Got Home From a Soil Health Workshop... Soil Biodiversity: The World Beneath Your Feet
(9:30 - 10:20 AM) - Have you been attending soil health workshops, (11:00 - 12:00 PM) - Building soil organic carbon is critical to soil
but not sure what to do when you get back to the farm? A panel of health and fertility. Grain producers can discover how good
farmers will share what they are doing on the farm to improve soil management practices help the thousands of little critters living in
health and some of the changes they are observing. Soil specialist the soil break down organic matter and keep carbon locked in the
Yamily Zavala will offer her insight. *Soil & Water Management CEU ground for long periods of time. *Soil & Water Management CEU
Our Friend
Sponsors:
Egg farmers of Alberta,
Theobroma Chocolate, Burnbrae
Farm, Fairwinds Farm, Sunnyside
Natural Market
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 10TH
Plant Protein Market Updates Organic Hemp: Market Opportunities and Agronomy
(9:30 - 10:30 AM) - The popularity of plant proteins is on the rise! (11:00 - 12:00 PM) - Learn from an experienced organic hemp
Join Dennis McKnight, Director of the Plant Protein Alliance of grower about the challenges and opportunities associated with
Alberta, as he explains the market growth of plant based proteins hemp production. This session will also go over the current market
and how to capitalize on this growing market, *Crop Management outlook for hemp and opportunities for growers to capitalize on this
CEU market. *Crop Management CEU
Jeff Battigelli
Keith Bamford
Dr Jeff Battigelli is a soil ecologist with more than two
For nearly three decades Keith has worked with Dr.
decades of experience studying soil ecosystems. With
Martin Entz managing field research trials into
expertise in soil quality, compaction, fertility,
conventional and organic crop rotations, crop water use
entomology, taxonomy, and ecology, Jeff has carried out
efficiency, annual and perennial legumes in crop
fieldwork in agricultural, grassland and forest
rotations, weed control in organic soybeans, nitrogen
ecosystems including soil surveys in natural and
producing green manure systems that have included both
disturbed ecosystems. He is working to better
grazing and zero-tillage in organic systems.
understand the world beneath our feet..
Cam Beard
Dawn Boileau
Cam was raised on farms, milking cows and hauling
Dawn Boileau is a partner and co-owner with Kate Hook
bales, slopping the hogs. He was already convinced that
at Sunrise Gardens, a Certified Organic market garden
farming organically was the way to go when he met and year-round producer of shoots and micro greens.
Rosemary in 2005. Cam believes that the science of what Their 10 acre farm has been in production since 2004 and
makes food taste great has become a study of soil, and Certified Organic since 2007. They are located near the
that there is always more to learn and ways to improve, town of Onoway, 80 km northwest of Edmonton.
and it keeps the days full.
James Bozarth
Kathy Bosse James Bozarth is an organic farmer near Sexsmith in
Kathy Bosse is a New Venture Specialist with Alberta Northern Alberta. Currently he farms 300 acres of crop
Agriculture and Forestry working out of the Red Deer land and 550 acres of hay and forage. James has
office. She grew up on a mixed farm in Saskatchewan and recently integrated cattle into his operation, which he
has spent 26 years working for Alberta Agriculture and runs with the help of his wife and two children. His focus
Forestry. Kathy assists businesses develop their ideas is on building soil health through education and
and grow by providing information, tools and coaching. experimentation; reduced tillage, cover-cropping and
rotational grazing..
Alden Braul
Ryan Cameron
Alden Braul works as an Organic Hemp Production
Specialist for Hemp Production Services and Hemp Ryan Cameron and his wife Bailey run an organic farm
Genetics International. He links organic producers with west of Millet, AB. Ryan enjoys the challenge of learning
top yielding hemp varieties, arranges organic hemp crop rotations and co-cropping to create synergies in his
production contracts and provides research-based grain crops and finding new ways to integrate the cattle.
organic agronomy support. Alden is keenly interested in His philosophy is that everything starts in the soil;
promoting sustainable food production systems and healthy soil makes healthy plants, and in return produces
conducts organic hemp research to improve on-farm healthy foods for both people and animals to consume.
profitability and resilience.
Justin Duban
Daniel Chappell
Justin and his wife Katelyn manage Duban Farms, a third
Daniel is a professional horticulturalist and owner of
generation, irrigated grain, pulse and oilseed farm
Country Thyme Farm, a small vegetable and poultry farm
located outside of Lethbridge. His goal is to create an
in Bowden, Alberta. Daniel has been growing for over 10
agricultural entity which is sustainable ecologically,
years, and has operated a CSA program in the Red Deer
socially and financially for the next generation and the
area since 2011.
community.
Monica Kohler
Anne Kirk
Monica has worked in the Applications Centre of the
Anne grew up on a grain farm in Manitoba and continues
Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute for over 5 years
to be involved, currently managing the organic portion of
working on projects that enhance the value of wildlife
the farm. She obtained a Bachelor of Science in
monitoring for stakeholders and policy-makers. She has
Agriculture and a Master of Science from the University
worked on rare species monitoring in the oil sands,
of Manitoba. Her Master's project focused on breeding
monitoring for fulfillment of regulatory requirements, and
wheat for organic cropping systems. Anne currently
collaborative monitoring projects to understand the
works as the provincial cereal specialist in Manitoba.
impacts of human activity on biodiversity.
Dennis McKnight
Darrell McElroy
Dennis McKnight has been involved in the Agri-Food
Darrell McElroy is the Seed Production Manager and
sector for the past 35 years providing strategic advice to
Agronomist at Fresh Hemp Foods. Fresh Hemp Foods is a
many global organizations active in the food and
recent merger of two hemp processing companies, and
beverage industry. He has traveled extensively in Asia,
operates as Manitoba Harvest when selling branded,
Europe, South America and the Middle East in search of
retail-ready hemp food products, and as Hemp Oil
the very best when it comes to innovation in food. He has
Canada for sales of bulk food ingredients. The company
led missions of business executives, scientists and food
is the largest hemp food processor in Canada, marketing
professionals seeking to establish deeper international
products throughout North America and to several
connections, business relationships and collaborations.
countries overseas.
David Proulx
Being raised on a Dairy and seed farm since the late 60’s,
Julie Price David became in touch with the land from a very young
age. After high school, David studied science and
Julie supports the Northern Manitoba Food, Culture &
business administration at the University du Quebec à
Community Collaborative. Her family is from a small farm
Trois-Rivières. In 1996, he was brought back to the land
in Southern Manitoba, and food, community and healthy with his father, where he became the general manager of
people and land are all very important to her. the farm RDR Grains & seeds. He operates a 1200-acre
organic farm where corn, soybeans, winter wheat, barley,
hemp, peas and oats are grown.
Cody Straza
Robert Spencer
Cody grew up near Wood Mountain, Saskatchewan on a
Rob Spencer has been a Commercial Horticulture
mixed farm. After getting a bachelors of Engineering and
Specialist with the Ag-Info Centre in Stettler, AB for 15
working off the farm for a number of years, he and his
years. Rob specializes in horticulture crop production
wife Allison bought their own farm in the Wood Mountain
extension. Rob is the author and editor of the monthly e-
area in 2010. On their farm they grow mostly Kamut,
newsletter, Hort Snacks, which has been running for
lentils and flax. Recently they've also grown spelt, forage
almost 10 years. Rob has a BSA (Honours), majoring in
peas, yellow mustard and chick peas. Over the last few
Horticulture, and an MSc, majoring in post-harvest potato
years there has been a focus shift to soil health. They've
pathology, from the University of Saskatchewan.
started growing diverse cover crops and reducing tillage.
Shane Woods
Geordie Wood Shane has over 40 years of gardening experience. He
Erica and Geordie are young farmers and members of grew up in Nova Scotia where he learned to respect and
Garden Hill First Nation. They have been working with the appreciate the delicate balance of sustainable gardening.
It is a gift that was instilled in him by his mother and
Meechim Project, a northern agricultural initiative in their
father who gardened out of necessity. He advocates that
fly-in community, for the past two years to build their
gardening should be cultured and entrusted to everyone.
skills. Geordie and his wife Erica have two young
Everyone should have the right to grow and process
children. their own healthy food. Shane along with his wife Tami,
established Wildrose Heritage Seed Company in 2012.