Documenting the hard work of the Integrated Pest Management lab in Beaverlodge, AB. Account managed by Shelby Dufton. All thoughts and opinions are my own.
Joined May 2023
- Tweets30
- Following140
- Followers68
- Likes5
There and back again... up to Ft. Vermilion and back down to Beaverlodge!
Beaverlodge Bug Busters have already swept 29 canola fields!
Still looking for canola seeded in:
#BCPeace at #Rolla and #DawsonCreek
#ABPeace at #Worsley and #HinesCreek
Text Shelby at 780-882-9478
Who you gonna call? BUG BUSTERS!
Our annual canola survey starts this week! This year we are a mean, green, sweeping-machine so keep an eye out for our staff in your canola fields! Thank you to everyone who has signed a permission form and allowing us to survey on your land!
Beaverlodge IPM Lab retweeted
#PeaceRiverRegion we're finalizing sites in signed AAFC Permission to Access forms for 2024's Annual Canola Survey. Hope to start near Manning-KegRiver-LaCrete-FortVermilion Jul 8-12. Central, Southern, and Western areas of the Peace will follow.
#WestCdnAg #Plant24 #Canola
LAST CALL! The 2024 Canola Survey starts next week!
We've reach 1092 fields but we are still looking for canola seeded around:
#Worsley
#EurekaRiver
#HinesCreek
#BCPeace in #DawsonCreek and #Rolla
#Bezanson
#Valleyview
#FtVermilion
#LaCrete
Call or Text Shelby at 780-882-9478
Who you gonna call? Beaverlodge Bug Busters! Or rather... we've been calling you!
Our 2024 Annual Canola Survey is around the corner and we are still looking for growers who have canola anywhere in the Peace River region!
Call Shelby Dufton at 780-882-9478 if interested!
That's a wrap folks! 🏁
A picture is worth a thousand words... Or a thousand fields?! (1100+!) A HUGE thank you for everyone who provided fields!
We ended up surveying just over 10%, sweeping #120 this evening! We will be processing samples over the next weeks! Stay tuned!
Watch out BC Peace - we're coming to sweep! We'll also be sending teams out to Deadwood, Hotchkiss, Manning, Fairview, Rio Grande, Elmworth, and Huallen
Incredibly high grasshoppers south of Cleardale - make sure you get out and scout! Seeing mainly bruner's and two-stripe with some meadow 🦗
Also higher densities near Worsley, Hines Creek, and Peace Grove
They'll never call us mellow yellow!
We are going far today, our teams will be sweeping in: Fairview, Cleardale, Worsley, Manning, La Crete, Teepee Creek, and Sexsmith
Where in the world is Beaverlodge IPM? Today we are out in Tangent, Belloy, Teepee Creek, Spirit River, Sexsmith, Valhalla and Hythe. Look for our pink shirts in the canola!
Our staff are seeing fields with high grasshopper numbers (adult Bruner's, two-striped and meadow) in the McLennan, Guy, and Donnelly areas!
#2023canolasurvey #grasshopper #scout2023
Beaverlodge IPM Lab retweeted
GRASSHOPPERS.
There are beneficial insects that help control the grasshoppers in your field 🪲 VS 🦗.
🔌 by @westerngrains
🎙️ : @shaunhaney at @realagriculture with @dr_tansey
#westcdnag
Make sure you're not spending money you don't have to from spraying. ⬇️
#2023canolasurvey schedule! Please be aware that locations may change with weather and growth staging.
04Jul: Eaglesham/Peace River/McLennan/Guy/Whitemud
05-06Jul: Manning/Ft. Vermilion/Sexsmith/Blueberry Mountain/Fairview
07Jul: BC Peace/Elmworth/Rio Grande
Coming soon to a field near you!
Look for bright pink shirts in your canola - that is our crew hard at work! Thank you to everyone that has provided us fields for the survey!
We're starting with Eaglesham / Peace River / McLennan / High Prairie / Whitemud / Debolt today.
ALT Back (left to right): Amanda Jorgensen, Shelby Dufton, Madysen Jones, Gareth Larsen. Front (left to right) Jadeyn Lunn, Aarika Harpe.
We will be outstanding in your fields starting next week!
Still want us to survey your land? It's not too late!
Contact Shelby Dufton:
780-882-9478 - [email protected]
What else will we be collecting in your field? Find out here:
insectpestmanagement.blogspo…
ALT Shelby Dufton surveys a field near Silver Valley for the 2019 Beaverlodge Research Farm Annual Canola Survey
Yellow there! Is this thing on? 🎤
883 fields - but we want MORE!
Growing canola between #Fairview and #Grimshaw? #BCPeace? E of #GrandePrairie? #Valleyview?
Call / Text / Email Shelby Dufton: 780-882-9478, [email protected]
#2023canolasurvey
drive.google.com/drive/u/1/f…
We are using a permission-based model for entering fields for the first time for our #2023canolasurvey!
Hear from Beaverlodge IPM Technician, Amanda Jorgensen, about our traditional survey model and how this will effect our survey!
insectpestmanagement.blogspo…
ALT Amanda Jorgensen sweeping a field during the 2014 Canola Survey
Beaverlodge IPM Lab retweeted
PhD student at the University of Alberta, Jacey Toerper, has created a producer survey to collect data on the adoption of winter wheat and ultra-early seeding of spring wheat across the Canadian Prairies.
Follow the link below to fill out the survey!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
We cover a huge area during the survey and see so many amazing things! Hear from a #canolasurvey pro, long-time student and term-technician Aarika Harpe about what it's like!
insectpestmanagement.blogspo…
ALT Aarika returns after collecting a sweep sample during the 2021 canola survey!