News

08 Oct PEI AWP Sponsors Pilot Project Investigating the Use of Drone Technology to Establish a Cover Crop into Standing Soybeans

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In September, 2025 the PEI AWP sponsored a pilot project investigating the use of drone technology to establish a cover crop into standing soybeans. In the past five years, PEI has planted an average of 32,684 acres of soybeans, with a substantial portion of this crop...

08 May PEI AWP Offers Support for Additional Protection of Watercourses Through the 2025 Outlet Stabilization Program

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The PEI AgriWatershed Partnership offered support to landowners for additional runoff mitigation at the outlets of stabilized concentrated flows through its Outlet Stabilization Program for 2025. Projects included rock chutes, sediment ponds and bank stabilization projects. The program provides up to $5000.00 for outlet stabilization...

07 Apr PEI AWP Teams with Potato Board and Local Watershed Groups to Restart Real-Time Weather Monitoring Network

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The PEI AgriWatershed Partnership has teamed up with the PEI Potato Board and local watershed groups to re-establish the real-time weather monitoring stations initially set up by the UPEI Climate Lab. A total of 30 stations distributed around the Island were brought back on-line, with upgrades...

12 Mar PEI AWP Hosts AgriWatershed Information in Montague

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On Tuesday, March 4, 2025 , the PEI AgriWatershed Partnership hosted an agri-watershed information meeting at Lane's River House Inn in Montague. The theme of this year's meeting was "Building Resilience in the Food Value Chain". The choice of theme reflects the reality that consumers...

13 Nov PEI AWP Steering Committee Conducts Fall Tour to Various Projects

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On Friday, November 8, 2024, members of the AgriWatershed Partnership Steering Committee attended a tour of 5 on-farm projects supported by the PEI AgriWatershed Partnership. The first project visited was a combination field trial of a streambank stabilization technique called a vegetated mechanically stabilized embankment...

06 Jul Local Watershed Groups Cooperating with PEI Potato Board on 2023 Blight Spore Monitoring Project

Posted at 09:38h in News

For the 2023 growing season, the PEI AgriWatershed Partnership is funding a Late Blight Spore Monitoring Project in cooperation with the PEI Potato Board and a number of local watershed groups. Late Blight is a serious challenge to potato production on PEI. The disease, caused by...

14 Nov Field Tour at AWP BMP Project

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Recently, members of the Steering Committee of the AgriWatershed Partnership and board members from the Southeast Environmental Association attended a field tour of one of the on-farm projects supported by the PEI AgriWatershed Partnership under the 2021 BMP Support Program. The project, undertaken by MacAulay...

05 Jul Work Progressing on AgriWatershed Partnership BMP Support Program Projects.

Posted at 13:22h in News

Fieldwork has begun on the 2021 AWP BMP support program projects. In the Montague River watershed, William Visser from GWR Farms and Jackie Bourgeois from the Southeastern Environmental Association (SEA) along with Tobin Stetson, P.Eng. , Soil & Water Engineer with the PEI Department of...

07 Apr PEI AgriWatershed Partnership Supporting 5 Land Management BMP Projects for 2021

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The PEI AgriWatershed Partnership is supporting 5 land management BMP Projects for the 2021 field season. The projects are distributed across all 3 counties and were selected as the top 5 ranked projects in terms of priority for runoff management by members of the AgriWatershed...

05 Jan AgriWatershed Partnership Launches BMP Support Program for the 2021 Growing Season

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The AgriWatershed Partnership is launching a BMP Support program for the 2021 growing season. The program aims to assist farmers/landowners institute soil conservation best management practices on fields within 200 metres of a designated watercourse or wetland. For approved projects, eligible costs incurred will be rebated...