Two Twilight Tours: Cropping Systems Research at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College
Hosted by the Cropping Systems Research Program

First Tour: July 27th/04 (Tue), 6:00 PM
Second Tour: August 26th/04 (Thurs), 6:00 PM.
Meeting place: Truro AgriTech Park Cropping Systems Research Centre Building.
Directions: From Main Street in Truro take Pictou Road. After the RCMP station go left into Innovation Road. At the first stop sign go right into Research Drive, the Cropping Systems Research Centre Building is at the end of Research drive.

Agenda for both tours:

6:00 PM Welcome by Dr. Valtcho Jeliazkov. Coffee, cookies, and cold drinks.

6:00-6:10 Cropping Systems Research Building and the new equipment and machinery purchased with the CFI (Canadian Foundation for Innovation) Fund.

6:15-6:35 Field 206: Development of profitable and sustainable cash-cropping systems for the Maritimes. I. Responses of Cash Cropping Based Systems to Tillage (conventional vs no-till), and Nitrogen

6:40- 7:00 Field 400A: Effect of ecolo-till and liquid manure application to N and P use efficiency and leaching under no-till system

7:00-7:20 Field 400: Crop performance, soil conservation, and nutrient efficiency in a no-till grain/forage based rotation

7:30-7:55 Field 306: Dykeland projects
1. Soil Conservation and Crop Productivity of Dykeland Cropping Systems. I. Municipal Solid Waste compost, Sewage Sludge compost, and solid manure effects on forage.
2. Liquid manure application to timothy and red clover in a dykeland.

8:10-8:30 Nova Scotia Agricultural College, Cox building Room 14.
Demonstration on the new Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) and the Energy Dispersive X-ray (EDX) microanalyzer.

8:30-8:50 - NSAC Cox Greenhouses. Container experiments with Sewage Sludge Compost and solid manure: nutrient availability and effects on agricultural crops.