Ranching Opportunities 2025
Admission Includes: Top quality Sessions, Tradeshow, Networking, Producer panel, Lunch, Coffee and Snacks
Location: Pomeroy Inn & Suites, Olds, AB - Free Parking
Time: Doors open at 8:30 am, Agenda begins at 8:50 am
Agenda includes:
- 8:30-8:50 - Registration
- 9:00-10:00 - Lessons from the Breton Plots: Weather, Moisure and Soil Management - Dick Puurveen, University of Alberta
- 10:00-10:20 - Coffee Break/Tradeshow
- 10:20-11:20 - Beef Heifer Selection - Promising Technology for Data-based Decision-Making - Dr. Susan Markus, Lakeland College and RDAR
- 11:20-11:50 - Why Triticale is the ideal Feed and Forage Crop for Western Canada - Dr. Mazen Aljarrah - Western Crop Innovations
- 11:50-12:35 - Lunch/Tradeshow
- 12:35-2:35 - Breakout Sessions: Choose 2 out of 3 to attend
- 1. Invasive Plants in Your Pasture: Christine Fulker, Olds College
- 2. Tips & Tricks to Bale Grazing, Grant Lastiwka
- 3. A Novel Auscultation Technology for Sheep Pregnancy Detection - Dr. Yaogeng Lei, Olds College and Dr. Shasha Jumbe, Level 42 AI
- 2:35-2:50 - Coffee Break/Tradeshow
- 2:50-4:00 - Managing Moisture Producer Panel:
- - Early Spring Grazing - Jim Bauer
- - Winter Cereals - Graydon Gardner
- - Wyoming Fences for Snow/Water Capture - Brad & Terri Mappin
- - Moderated by Sean Thompson, Olds College
For more information, contact Theresa at Mountain View County, Agricultural Services: 403-559-8282, tfletcher@mvcounty.com
Accommodations available: Pomeroy Inn & Suites, The Ramada, and Best Western hotels in Olds.
Event Day Contact: Delaney McNaughton, 403-520-3952
Thank you to our Event Sponsors:
Canadian Forage and Grassland Association, ARECA, Red Deer County, Ducks Unlimited Canada, ENVU, Corteva, Lonestar Angus
