Friday, March 9, 2011

Boissevain School
Free Admission
9:30 am to 4:00 pm

Trade Show and Exhibits
Home Based Business Section
Indoor and Outdoor Displays
Free Refershments
Cooking Demo

Free Seminars

Your farm’s financial resume - rebuilding in 2012

9:45 – 10:30 am
PETER MANNESS P.Ag, Business Advisor with MNP
Peter will discuss the implications of financial challenges to your farm in 2011. He will outline how to analyze your farm’s financial statements, understand benefits and downfalls of different financing options and develop a plan to improve the financial health of your business.
Peter has over 10 years of industry experience and helps implement solutions on a wide range of issues for primary agricultural producers. His services include business and strategic planning, farm financial planning, operational and production review, feasibility analysis, farm transition planning and cost of production analysis.

Results from local farm scale Canola field trials

10:45 – 11:30
DALE HOUSTON Agronomist, Double Diamond Farm Supply Dale will present the Grow Total Acre a local, field-scale canola varieties and fertility trials. The field trials compare and showcase all of the leading canola hybrids that are curr<p>ently available o_n the market. The locations for the Total Acre sites in 2011 were in Boissevain, Mantioba; Watrous, Saskatchewan; and Vermilion, Alberta.

Turtle Mountain Ag Society Lunch

12:00 noon to 1:30 pm
$5.00

Most profitable crops for 2012

1:30 – 2:15
GARY SMART Business Development Specialist, MAFRI
Gary will speak about the importance of creating a Marketing Plan on your farm, marketing adjustments that may be required for 2012 with regards to the CWB, as well as a look at cost of productions and the most profitable crops for 2012. 2:30 –3:15 Forage selection & avoiding costly mistakes JANE THORNTON, Forage and Pasture specialist, MAFRI More money is made or lost during seeding than at any other time in the life of a forage stand. While we need to pray to the weather gods there are management decisions that we can make that will ensure that a good stand is established. Choosing the right forage for the job whether pasture or hay is the first place to start, then preparing a proper seed bed and finally seeding to the correct depth are all management decisions that can make the difference between a vigorous stand and one that is just so so.