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Pre-drought planning and actions to increase your level of readiness are important strategic plans. These web pages can assist you in preparing for drought by:
FAQs
Frequently asked questions about weather elements and livestock feeds are available to quickly provide some of the information you need.
Management Information
Drought management checklist
Useful tips are provided in a series of checklists that are available for fall, winter, spring, and summer planning.
Business management information
This page contains a range of articles addressing the current moisture situation, business management options, and cow herd, forage, and grazing budgets to meet many circumstances.
Crop management information
Drought provides a different set of stresses, and options, for cereal and oilseed crops. This page offers information and approaches to dealing with a number of crop-related management issues.
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Livestock and forage management information
| Maintaining herd health and productivity during stressful periods is often challenging. This section provides a number of bulletins on beef feeding and production management, applicable to drought situations. |
Livestock water requirements
This calculator helps you determine the average daily and annual water requirement numbers for beef, poultry, swine, sheep/goats, dairy and diversified livestock.
Water Resource Information Links
Dugout/lagoon volume calculator
This calculator will give you the capacity of a dugout and its contents in cubic feet, cubic yards, cubic meters, litres, Imperial and US gallons. This is useful in determining the size of dugout necessary, estimating construction costs, and volumes remaining in the dugout.
Alberta Environment water information
This page includes a variety of information on water-related issues, including precipitation maps, groundwater information, and information on approvals, licences, registrations, and permits issued under the Water Act and Environmental Protection and Enhancement Act.
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada PFRA groundwater assessment reports
This page provides information on groundwater and potential aquifers in individual municipalities.
Water Wells That Last
Use this page to access information on developing and maintaining a water source.
The Canada-Alberta Farm Water Program is offered to individual producers planning on-farm water projects such as dugouts, wells, and pasture pipelines. |
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