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CANADIAN FORAGE AND GRASSLAND ASSOCIATION UPDATE By Canadian Forage & Grassland Association
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his is an exciting time for the Canadian Forage and Grassland Association (CFGA). There are several projects on the go, as well as workshops planned for the weeks ahead. If you're looking for more professional development, the recordings of all presentations from the 2020 CFGA conference are also available through their online store.
PROJECT UPDATES Rounding the corner on the CFGA Agricultural Greenhouse Gases Program (AGGP) project, CFGA continues to work with provincial partners to complete project questionnaires and plan and deliver project summary webinars in the provinces. A follow-up project, leveraging the successes of the AGGP project, is in the works, and details will come. This is not a one-and-done project, as exhibited in the recent announcement of federal carbon offset system protocols being considered for Canadian agriculture. CFGA continues to work on Environment and Climate Change Canada-funded work to build tools and training events that will support habitat stewardship and biodiversity enhancements across Canada. Tool development continued throughout the fall and winter, and workshops are now taking place in Nova Scotia, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. Two new exciting funding packages have been awarded to CFGA that will advance its understanding of how and why alfalfa yield and quality varies between years and over landscapes. Initial planning work with field advisers is ongoing and the association looks forward
to bringing updates on this innovative project through the winter and into spring as it works toward the 2021 CFGA conference.
PROFITABLE PASTURES 2021 The CFGA was excited to participate in the Ontario Forage Council’s (OFC) Profitable Pastures 2021. OFC offered four free webinars from March 9 to 12, with CFGA’s executive director Cedric MacLeod speaking on March 12 about carbon markets for forage farmers.
CFGA 2020 CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS AVAILABLE Access to the CFGA 11th annual conference proceedings is still available for $150 plus taxes and fees for one-month access or $300 plus taxes and fees. Topics included forage fertility, weed control, harvesting, data management and storage. If you would like access to presentation recordings, panel discussions and question and answers, as well as the chat logs captured during these sessions, you can purchase access at http://canadianfga.com/2020/. To receive updates from CFGA, visit www.canadianfga.ca/cfga-newsletter-sign-up.
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