Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) invites you to join them for a free webinar focused on the AgriStability program. This presentation is designed for producers and others involved in agriculture who want a clearer, more practical understanding of the AgriStability program, and especially one of its most important building blocks: margins.

AgriStability can feel technical, and margins are often where questions begin: What are they? How are they calculated? How do changes in production, prices, expenses, inventories, or farm structure show up in your program results, and what does that mean for potential support? Understanding margins can help producers to use AgriStability more confidently as part of their overall risk management strategy.

Presented by Colleen Jolicoeur, an AgriStability expert with over 25 years of experience at AAFC, this session will walk through margins leaving participants better equipped to understand AgriStability coverage and to predict its outcomes.

You will have the opportunity to submit questions to AAFC officials in advance and during the live webinar.

Join the EFP Program for their webinar series on Invasive Species. For 3 weeks they are hosting presentations and program highlights from three guest speakers. Join for the live discussion! Each session will be recorded.

In this session, the Alberta Invasive Species Council will chat about their work and program updates!

Join Farm Credit Canada for a free virtual event for farmers under 40 to have fun and explore the business side of farming.

Part #2 features Olympian and ranch Sage Walker’s story, and Maverick Ag’s Evan Shout on having a CEO mindset and building your business management skills.

Join Leduc County and Farming Forward for an in-person workshop where you will learn about practical carcass disposal options as well as a producer-first look at why on-farm plastic recycling matters – including how it can support sustainable farm management.

Participants will also see a live demonstration of an innovative, producer-designed adaptation of a silage bag compactor.

Register: online here or call Kim at 780-387-6182

Join Strathcona County and Delaney Veterinary Services for an evening of learning to help your horse stay healthy this spring and summer. Part one will cover strategies for horse health while at shows. Part two will introduce the basics of horse nutrition and choosing the proper feed.

The event is free with a light supper included. Please register ahead of time.

Join Peace Country Beef and Forage Association and Naveen Arora from Alberta Agriculture and Irrigation for a practical webinar on protecting water quality in livestock watering systems.

This session will focus on key considerations for dugouts and wells, including how spring runoff and early-season conditions can affect water quality. Participants will learn about common water quality challenges in livestock water systems and best management practices (BMPs) that help maintain safe and reliable water sources.

The webinar will also highlight practical things producers can check or assess before livestock are moved to pasture, along with common issues producers encounter with livestock water systems.

Lakeland College’s Farm 4.0 brings together local producers, industry leaders, and technology innovators to explore the tools and advancements shaping the future of agriculture. The event will feature demonstrations, discussions, and networking opportunities centered around improving efficiency, sustainability, and profitability within the industry. The event includes a trade show, practicum presentations (listed below), a Lakeland College farm tour, and keynote speaker Kaitlyn Kitzan on “AgTech from the Inside.”

Practicum presentations:

• Automation: The Future of the Field
• AgTech Today and Tomorrow
• Precision Farming in the Real World
• Turning Data into Decisions
• Efficiency, Sustainability and Smarter Management
• Livestock Tech: Efficiency Starts Here
• Seeing the Field Differently: NDVI and Beyond

The Annual La Crete Organic Farming Conference & Tradeshow is hosted in partnership with the Mackenzie Applied Research Association.

Beavers are a keystone species that create riparian habitat and influence the ecosystem functions riparian areas provide. This presentation will offer an overview of beaver biology, ecology, and behaviour.  It will also touch on challenges when their behaviour or actions conflicts with those of humans and discuss some of the options available for addressing these challenges while still maintaining the benefits of the habitats they create.

Methane emissions are an increasing focus for the livestock industry, but measuring them accurately under real feedlot conditions remains a challenge. This talk will highlight how uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs, or drones) are being used to measure methane emissions directly from feedlots. Alberta AgriSystems Living Lab will walk through how the technology works, what it can reveal about emission patterns, and how these measurements compare to traditional approaches. The presentation will focus on practical insights, current limitations, and what this type of data could mean for producers as the industry moves toward improved efficiency, transparency, and sustainability.

Join Alberta AgriSystems Living Lab and Dr. Shanwei Xu from Agriculture and Agri-food Canada to learn more about composting. Gather knowledge on past and current composting research including:

• the concept of composting,
• optimal conditions for composting procedures,
• application of composting for the disposal of livestock manure and carcasses,
• examining the compost/manure fertilizer values as soil amendment for crop production and increase soil health, and
• co-benefits of using composting for manure disposal including inactivating pathogens such as infectious prions and reducing the antimicrobial residues and spread of antimicrobial resistance genes into environment.

As part of the National Beef Strategy 2025-2030, Canadian Beef Industry Conference is evolving from an annual event to a biennial conference.

Registration opens April 29, 2026.

Remember we will be moving back to “Fall Meetings!”

Keep an eye out for more details to come.