The Parkland Crop Diversification Foundation's getting ready for its annual field day on July 27th, and they've got some great things planned for the day. There will be two field visits and lunch, with industry specialists speaking during the sessions.
James Frey, an Applied Production Specialist for Manitoba Agriculture, works with the Foundation, and he says it'll be a very informative day.
"In recent years we've been looking at test grass as a crop, and that's pretty new to Manitoba, fairly unknown, so it's a great opportunity for people to come out and see that," said Frey, "It has quite a lot of forage potential."
Frey says this is the first full field day they've had since 2019, as the event was canceled in 2020, and they only held a smaller field event last year.
"We're really looking forward to a return to the way things were with some ninety people or a hundred people in attendance in pre-pandemic years," said Frey, "That's definitely our hope, to see quite a lot of feet in the field."
