Getting Into the Weeds: Dialing in Irrigation Webinar Series

Are you curious about adding irrigation to your farm or want to improve your current irrigation management? This event is for you!

Perennia’s winter webinar series, “Getting Into The Weeds,” is going to provide an in-depth look at On-Farm Irrigation. The team will host guest speakers from across North America to talk about on-farm irrigation practices. Seminars will cover everything from managing your soil for water retention, irrigation system selection, design and management, to disease management in irrigated crops.

This seminar series will be from November 2020 to April 2021.

WEBINAR ONE (REGISTER HERE) 
TITLE: Water Movement through soil – make every drop count
DATE/TIME: Tuesday November 24, 2020 12-1:30 PM (AST)
GUEST SPEAKER: Odette Ménard, Soil and Water Conservation Advisor, Regional office of Montérégie, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food.
SESSION DESCRIPTION: Traditionally, Nova Scotia has been blessed with adequate rainfall distribution throughout the growing session. In recent years, the frequency of dry periods in the growing session where rainfall limits crop production is growing. The use of irrigation is increasingly being used to bridge these dry periods in cropping systems where traditionally, it was less common. However, not every soil is created equal and not every soil will respond the same way to irrigation. We will discuss inherent soil properties and what you need to know about your soil to make every drop count during this session.