Special thanks to Jeffrey Carter for letting use use the pictures he took of the 1998 conservation tour at Ron McRae's farm

Tuesday, August 18, 1998
MSCIA CONSERVATION TOUR
First tour leaving at 4:30 p.m.
Host Farm: Ron & Linda McRae, 11570 charlton Dr., RR#1 Denfield
(2nd place on the left past Bear Creek Rd.)

Our family. top row from the left: Steven and Jenny
middle row: Kevin, Linda, Ron with Emily on my knee

Kids in the trout stream, designated as cold water fish habitat in
1999 by Federal Fisheries Department. Kids left to right:
Emily , Steven , Kevin.

Same as above. The point being, wide buffer strips are good protection
of stream habitat. Liquid manure and streams should never mix and
they don't have to if properly managed. Never spread manure too close
to a water course. Never spread on a saturated soil with tiles
running , and work the soil surface prior to spreading if your
tillage program allows.

Steve Twynstra from the Great Canadian Bean Company talks about
choices in edible bean varieties, contracts etc.

Matthew Aerts and Larry McGill talk about starter fertilizer
placement trials --- dry vs. liquid and 2"x2" band vs.25 lb.
placed with the seed through the insecticide hoppers using
modified steel rollers in the hoppers to withstand wear from the
fertilizer.

Steve Twynstra again.Talked about the possibility of double
cropping with a bean crop of some kind after early harvested wheat.

Bill Steven's annual soil pit talk ! Located at Roy Bloomfield's
farm.The field was no-till corn. Bill was demonstrating how corn
roots will grow to the nitrogen when applied skipping every other
row. Plot results prove to be positive with no yield reduction ,
just cost savings.

Roy Bloomfield .