Middlesex Soil & Crop Improvement Association

The Website Of The Conservation Tour 1997

Tuesday, August 19, 1997

Tours leaving between 4:30 and 7:15 p.m.
Barbeque 5:00 to 7:00 p.m.
(Compliments of MSCIA)

Walking Tour
Focus on Water Quality - Rob Palin, UTRCA
Replacement Septic System - Craig Jowett, Waterloo Biofilter
Environmental Farm Plan - Margaret May
Well Sanitation and Capping Demo - Margaret May
Fusariaum Study in Corn/Soy/Wheat Rotation
Specialty Beans, First Line Seeds - Rob Hannon, Clark Aitken
Small Plot of Verde, Atom, Nugget & Harovintin

Bus Route A
Transgentic Crops - Roundup Ready Soys + Bt Corn
Resistant Pigweed - an Ontario Reality - Hugh Martin
Pre-Till Plots on Wheat Stubble - Amy Vingerhoeds
Decommissioning Abandoned Well - John Wilson, Past-President, CWDA

Bus Route B
Honeybees in Agriculture - Davis Bryans, Munro Apiaries, Alvinston
Silage Plots - Row Width 20" vs 40", Mycogen TMF94 vs Pioneer 3733 - Ron Lackey
Beef Feedlot, Feeding System, Covered Barnyard and Manure Pad - Mark McGill
Pesticide Storage Shed, Sprayer and Water Wagon
Foliar Feeding - Soybeans & Corn - MSCIA Project - Roy Bloomfield

Displays
Machinery - 20" Row Equipment, Planter, Silage Head and Corn Head, Phoenix Harrow
Pest Diagnostic Table & Wheat Results - Peter Johnson

Hosts: Larry & Barb McGill
4119 Century Dr., R. 4, Glencoe, Ekfrid Twp.
(2nd road north of Glencoe on Hwy. #80)
Follow the Conservation Tour Signs

Barbeque