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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

Posted at 11:57h in News

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

Posted at 08:51h in News, Uncategorized

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

Posted at 09:00h in News

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...

10 Dec Ministers visit AgriWatershed Partnership Land Management Demonstration Project

Posted at 09:00h in News

Recently, the Minister of Agriculture and Land, the Hon. Bloyce Thompson and the Minister of Environment Water & Climate Change, the Hon. Natalie Jameson, toured one of the AgriWatershed Partnership’s land management demonstration sites at Uigg and heard first hand from both the watershed coordinator...

25 Nov AgriWatershed Partnership Supports 2 Land Management Demonstration Projects

Posted at 09:00h in News

One of the Agri-Watershed Partnership's projects for 2020 was to work with watershed group(s) and landowners to identify areas where agricultural runoff had impacted surface waters and to facilitate the use of the best management practices (BMPs) to address the problem. Financial support to complete...