The President of the Huron Soil and Crop Improvement Association brought county councillors up to date on activity on the property behind the Health Unit.
Doug Walker explains the property was turned over to the Association to be used as a demonstration site in September of 2014 and since then they've been working on trying to determine which best management practices would be most effective in managing soil erosion on the property. And Walker says the 47-acre property does present some challenges.
"It's very rolling land, water drainage has not been up to today's standards and we have to do some work there. Runways of water during heavy rain events causing erosion makes it difficult for modern day farming practices with larger equipment,” said Walker.
Walker also pointed out that climate change has resulted in more frequent and more extreme heavy rain events and farmers are going to have to change some of their practices to address the increase in heavy rain events and massive water flows during spring melts.
Walker says they have been very successful in managing erosion and a lot of people have offered to give them advice on how to best use the limited resources they have to make it better and be able to demonstrate to the local farming population there are ways that we can use modern technology to help alleviate some of these issues that they're having.
“To give us advice on how to best use our limited resources, that we can make it better and be able to demonstrate to the local farming population there are ways that we can use modern technology to help alleviate some of these issues that we're having,” said Walker.
