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Nova Scotia Agri-Innovation Symposium
Improve your bottom line! Come to the Nova Scotia Agri-Innovation Symposium!
Date:
Tuesday, March 23
Time:
8:30 a.m. - 4 p.m.,
Location: Holiday Inn, 437 Prince Street, Truro
Cost: $40
Farm producers, agri-businesses and researchers are invited to participate in the
Nova Scotia Agri-Innovation Symposium to learn about leading-edge techniques on how to adapt and grow your operation to improve your bottom line. Participants will learn from successful Nova Scotia farmers and agri-business operators some of the key elements that make their business a success. The event will also feature relevant information on government programs and services geared to help farm and agri-businesses be more profitable.
In this one day event you will learn about:
-the link between innovation and profitability
-how to overcome obstacles and barriers
-real-life, real-time success stories
-consumer trends and opportunities
-the importance of planning
-how to connect with research and business services
-networking opportunities
-federal and provincial policy and programs and services on science, innovation and research
Partners in support of the event include Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Nova Scotia Department of Agriculture, Nova Scotia Federation of Agriculture and Nova Scotia Agricultural College. This event is a part of Growing Forward, a federal-provincial-territorial initiative.
Advance registration is required by Friday, March 19. The $40 fee includes lunch and coffee breaks. Payment by cash or cheque payable to Nova Scotia Federation of Agriculture will be collected on-site the day of the event.
For more information please contact Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada at
902-896-3652 or by e-mail at Laurie.Eagles@agr.gc.ca or, contact Nova Scotia Federation of Agriculture at 902-893-2293; e-mail or online at nsfa-fane.ca/innovation-symposium
ACAA Basketball Championships
NSAC is proud to be hosting th ACAA Basketball Championships
this weekend. Be sure to stop by the Langille Athletic Centre
Friday and Saturday to check out all the action and support
the Women's team which plays Friday at 11! Go Rams! For the
complete schedule visit http://nsac.ca/acaachampionships/
Fridays @ 3
Speaker: Dr. David Burton
Topic: "Measuring and Predicting the Soil Nitrogen Supply of Soil: Can it be done?"
Date: March 5
Time: 3 p.m.
Location: Cox room 257
Everyone welcome!
Refreshments provided.
NSAC Seminar March 25, 2010
12:30-1:30 PM
Room: Cox 24
Reclamation in the Alberta Oil Sands:
Big holes, big challenges, big myths.
DS Chanasyk, PhD, PAg, PEng
Renewable Resources
University of Alberta
Oil sands excavation and extraction have been conducted in
the Alberta Oil Sands for over 40 years, and continue to expand.
The excavation process is conducted on a mammoth scale, with
huge tracts of lands disturbed. Post reclamation, areas that
were originally dominantly wetlands have been turned into upland,
largely forested as an end land use. Recently the oil sands
operations have garnered much negative press. Key issues center
on huge tailings ponds, large water withdrawals from an already
low flow Athabasca River, few signs of reclamation success
and unparalleled greenhouse gas emissions. Each will be discussed.
The challenges of oil sands extraction and reclamation will
also be discussed, and several myths that have arisen re the
oil sands will be debunked.
Contact: Andy Hammermeister at 893-8037, ahammermeister@nsac.ca for information about the seminar.
Cargill Information Session
There will be a Cargill AgHorizons information session on Thursday, March 11. Cargill is offering two times on that date, noon - 1 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
Click here for the poster with all the details
Graduate Research Day
Please mark Friday, April 9 in your calendars for Graduate Research Day!
This event promotes current graduate student research at NSAC and gives students an opportunity to inform and interact with the NSAC community, industry and general public about their exciting and innovative research.
Graduate students will present their research through both oral and poster presentations. Research from the departments of Plant, Animal, Environmental, Engineering and Business & Social Science will be highlighted.
Graduate Research Day is sponsored in part by NSAC Association of Graduate Students, NSERC-Atlantic and NSAC Research & Graduate Studies office.
A complete schedule of events will be released soon.
Turkey and Egg Sale Tomorrow
We have turkeys and eggs left from last Fridays sale. The turkeys are now 'frozen'.
This could be the last sale for some time.
 
Whole - FROZEN Turkeys - $2.75/kg
Brown and white shell eggs - $3/flat
Web Warriors Seminar Tomorrow
Scholarship Spotlight
$1,000 Randy Carey Memorial Scholarship Presented at NSAC
In memory or Randy Carey, who worked for Stirling Fruit Farms for much of his career, a $1,000 scholarship is awarded annually to a student from the Annapolis Valley entering a degree/diploma program at NSAC who is interested in pursuing a career in agriculture. Preference may be given to students with interests in the horticulture industry. Selection criteria also include farm background, career plans and academic performance. Professor Kris Pruski, NSAC Plant & Animal Sciences Dept., and a member of the NSAC Scholarship Committee, is shown with the 2009 recipient – Travis Pearson, Centreville, NS, a first year Diploma in Enterprise Management - Farming student.
Photos of the Day
Both of these spring-like photos were taken the morning of Feb.25,2010 on-campus. The top one shows snowdrops and the bottom is of crocus and daffodils. Photos courtesy of Pam Doyle.
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