Ag in Motion’s annual exhibition ended Saturday after virtual for the first time due to COVID-19.
Every year, thousands of people, farmers across the province and western Canada, come to Discovery Farm.
Just outside Langham, Saskatchewan (30 minutes west of Saskatoon) is the site of the annual Ag in Motion event.
In the more than two years, around 30,000 have attended this popular event.
Generally, an industry-linked company establishes suppliers so that visitors can be more informed about their specific product. As appliance companies, crop and livestock coverage. There are also countless live demonstrations that other people can view and separate.
Glacier FarmMedia Discovery Farm Applied Research Blake Weiseth, calls it a one-stop shop for everything similar to the agricultural industry.
“They can show the newest and most productive thing at the time of what’s going to be had in the industry for farmers,” Weiseth said.
“People (are) able to interact with various organizations in the agricultural source chain.”
Weyburn-area farmer Jake Leguee attended the three-day exhibit several times. He says there’s no other delight like that, especially if you’re a farmer.
“They have a lot of freedom and a lot of freedom to be artistic enough in the other types of remedies they can apply in other cultures. It’s an exclusive opportunity to be informed about a few other things,” Leguee said.
Leguee says the site is huge and there’s a lot to see. He says it happens with some express things that you need to see in a different way and you’ll get lost.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, they go with an online platform for the 2020 edition of the event. This included a 50-minute webinar with experts that allowed interaction between them and other viewers.
But that didn’t stop the other people involved in the exhibition from embarking on new concepts such as salinity allocation. The purpose of the task is to use certain types of pastures (forage species) or alfalfa to obtain the best degrees of salt in the soil of the innermost root area. This prevents a crop from growing.
“An estimated 6-20 million acres are threatened in western Canada,” said Wayne Dobbie, manager of the Proven Seed Territory of the North Saskatchewan Division.
“With two million acres directly affected today. It’s a huge problem for all temp-it grower regions and for agriculture producers throughout the prairies.”
He says this applies to the entire west of Canada, from southern Manitoba to northern Alberta.
Dobbie says salinity disorders occur in several ways, adding excess moisture over time, rain cycles, turning the way certain practices are implemented in certain areas or even in other types of crops.
“There are many points that can produce salinity in the soil.
“The long-term purpose is to show that there are environmentally friendly practices that can’t regenerate the soil, but at least give manufacturers a recoil (economically),” Dobbie said.
“Whether that’s left for cattle feed or grazing or even just left alone. At least there is something growing there.”
Canceling the program is not an option, as there had to be a way to virtually allow the movement of wisdom.
“We want to be a place that creates great content,” Weiseth said.
“We need to engage in conversations with farmers and other people in the industry with the general public.”
Leguee attended the webinar as a panelist. He says it shows a literally artistic aspect of the organizers to organize a virtual occasion for anything other people can see, even if it’s not in person.
Weiseth said the virtual format gained a lot through those who participated. But it will be wonderful to return to an industry screen in the user in 2021.