Crop plots are in the ground at Ag in Motion

Crop plot seeding was underway May 23 at the Ag in Motion show site near Langham. Some plots had already emerged, but others were waiting for seeding to be completed.

Ag-Quest and Agriculture Canada were on site that windy day, putting things in the ground for the upcoming show.

“We’re planting a mixture of everything,” said Cameron Kayter, a range management biologist for Agriculture Canada who is supervising this year’s crop plot seeding.

“So in this a case, we want to highlight all the different research that we’re doing at Ag Canada in Saskatchewan.”

Agriculture Canada’s plots were cleaned up and ready to go as soon as the ground was dry enough. This year, the plots had some of the best soil mositure in a few years when staff started seeding and they’re taking the best advantage they can.

“We have canola, camelina, we have some poly mixes, like oat-pea, stuff like that,” Kayter said.

“And then we have some forages, obviously, that we keep here perennially. So yeah, it’s kind of a mixed bag. All of our different scientists contribute a plot or two to showcase the research they’re doing.”

They’re planting some diverse crops as well, such as amaranth and fenugrek, alongside the poly mixes of chickpea-flax, lentil-flax, pea-mustard, pea-oat and canola-radish. Their perenial forages are alfalfa-sainfoin-cicer and alfalfa-sainfoin mixes.