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March 8

Regional variety trials, microcredentials, mitigating zooepidemicus disease, and International Women's Day.

How to apply for OFCAF funding, microcredentials, OFCAF podcast, and where we've been.

Agriculture Funding Consortium open for 2023-24 proposals, JD vaccine updates for dairy cows, and a look at multi-paddock grazing research.

How to apply for 2023 OFCAF funding, updated webinars and FAQ, and where we've been.

New webinars, FAQ, and toolkit to support OFCAF applicants.

2023 Research Showcase event recap, results of the Board election, and wetland research updates.

Recently, we had the opportunity to talk to husband and wife farmers Paul and Lori Kinnee of Ten Bar Cattle in Grand Prairie Alberta. Paul and Lori have a commercial Simmental herd are newly approved OFCAF funding recipients. The Kinnee’s applied and were approved for funding of their projects in all three OFCAF BMP areas — rotational grazing, nitrogen management, and cover cropping.

Edmonton, Alberta — Almost half of Canada’s honeybee colonies did not survive the winter of 2021, the most significant loss of honeybees in 20 years. Bees are vital to our world and economy, with the security of our food supply depending on pollinators. That is why there is a definite buzz about RDAR funding an Alberta beekeeper project to fight the Varroa destructor mite (Varroa), a deadly parasite infecting bees and destroying bee colonies. 

RDAR opened the On-Farm Climate Action Fund (OFCAF) program to application in early August. On November 7th, 2022 OFCAF closed applications for the 2022 year one intake season. OFCAF will begin accepting applications for year two of the program starting on February, 13 2O23. On October 27th 2022, RDAR had the opportunity to host two federal Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC)Program Managers on a full day tour of producer farms in and around the Central Alberta region that have started to implement OFCAF BMPs on their properties.