I Love Dirt

10/09/2024

07/06/2024

🔦 Cypress SPOTLIGHT: Crowsnest Cones

Located in Seven Persons, just off Highway 3, Crowsnest Cones offers a wide variety of ice cream, and now pizza! Stop by this summer and treat yourself!

If you would like your Cypress County business or organization to be featured, please email beth.cash@cypress.ab.ca

06/28/2024

06/19/2024

Go Oilers

06/14/2024

With a population expected to reach 9.8 billion by 2050, the industry will need to produce 56 per cent more food to meet the demand. This is a large responsibility, but it certainly isn’t the only one. The industry’s environmental responsibility is also top of the list. Sustainable agriculture ensures a future where precious resources like water, soil, and air are taken care of for future generations. This is done through several principles and farming practices, which preserve and rehabilitate farming ecosystems.

Download our Sustainability publication to learn more: https://www.agricultureforlife.ca/nourishing-minds-magazine

04/05/2024

02/17/2024

🎉CONTEST TIME!

Cypress County may be Southeast Alberta's Playground, but what does that look like to you?

👕We're asking you to design a T-shirt showing off what makes our county amazing. From Desert Blume to Sandy Point, Elkwater to Suffield, and all places in between, there's a lot to draw inspiration from.

🎨Draw or design something before March 1 and head over to our website (www.cypress.ab.ca) to enter. From there, we'll share the top five entries to be voted on.

The winner will win a grand prize including, of course, the first shirt off the presses! All of the finalists will win county merchandise as well.

We can't wait to see what you come up with!

02/13/2024

Soil carbon sequestration, or carbon farming, is one way that agriculture helps reduce global greenhouse gas emissions. It also creates healthy, productive soils that have high levels of soil organic matter.

🔎 Pasturelands remove greenhouse gases from the air and sequester them in soil. Land used for grazing beef cattle in Canada is currently storing about 1.5 billion tonnes of carbon.

Grasslands around the world store nearly 30% of global soil carbon. 👍

🔬 Learn more about carbon sequestration and many other hot topics in science and agriculture with
https://bit.ly/3O4h0nN

02/13/2024

🐝Have you heard the BZZZ? The future is now when it comes to using drones for agricultural purposes.

Whether it's mapping, finding livestock, or even spraying, there are a variety of benefits to deploying drones as part of a farm operation.

Markus Weber with LandView Drones has developed a two-day course which will get you off the ground. Perhaps not literally; that's what the drones are for.

Drone school is taking place March 12-13 in Seven Persons. The cost is $590 plus tax.

Register now at www.landviewdrones.com

02/08/2024

VIRTUAL FARM TOUR ANNOUNCEMENT!! 🥳

Just in time for spring seeding! We invite students to fasten their virtual seatbelts and get ready for an exhilarating ag-venture.

Join us on March 4th as we embark on an exclusive behind-the-scenes tour with our friends at Rocky Mountain Equipment - one of the largest agriculture equipment dealerships in Canada. 😀

Get up close and personal with awe-inspiring farm machinery, discovering the incredible role these colossal pieces of equipment play in revolutionizing agriculture and helping farmers feed the world. Don't miss out on this awesome opportunity!

If you have ever wondered what that piece of equipment does, this event is for you!

Learn more and register your class today: https://www.agricultureforlife.ca/farm-and-food-tours

Rocky Mountain Equipment

02/08/2024

World Read Aloud Day - here is some Alberta written suggestions