News | PEI AgriWatershed Partnership

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...

The Richmond Bay Watershed Association is one of several watershed groups assisting with spore trap collection. Here Richmond Bay Watershed association coordinator, Cathy Gallant and her field crew get ready for the first spore trap collection.

11 Jul PEI AgriWatershed Partnership continues its support for blight spore monitoring for 2024 with the help of local watershed groups and the EPAA

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The PEI AgriWatershed Partnership is supporting the Blight Spore Monitoring Program again for 2024. Local Watershed Groups and the East Prince Agri-Environmental Association continue to participate with spore trap collection. 2024 marks the second year the PEI AgriWatershed Partnership is cooperating with the PEI Potato...

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

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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...

12 Jan 2022 AWP Beneficial Management Practices Support Program now accepting applications.

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The 2022 PEI AgriWatershed Partnership Beneficial Management Practices Support Program is accepting application through to February 28, 2022. Landowners/farmers , do you have an agricultural site near a watercourse or wetland you would like to do runoff control work on? Watershed groups - do you have...

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...

31 Aug Update on 2021 AWP BMP Projects

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At an AgriWatershed Partnership project on the Montague River, the South East Environmental Association are cooperating with local farmers - GWR Farms Ltd. on a project aimed at reducing runoff into the Montague River. When completed, the project will feature a grassed waterway in the...