Sustainability: Stewarding the Land for Future Generations
Lamb Farms has done its very best to be as sustainable as possible through the use of practices such as no-till farming, stripper headers, thoughtful fertility and pesticide application, management-intensive grazing, and cover cropping. We always strive to use latest technology available.
We have teamed up with organizations such as Ducks Unlimited, Foothills Forage & Grazing Association, Farming Smarter, and the Lethbridge Research Center. We are constantly improving our farming practices through research, collaboration and on farm research.
We keep extensive records and can provide planting maps, application maps (with accurate weather data) and yield maps collected at harvest. These records provide us with the data we need to help determine what we are doing right, constantly improve, and to help us recognize our mistakes.
These methods in conjunction with our collaborative management model make sure we treat the land - both yours and ours - in the most sustainable manner that we can. We cannot promise that we will do everything right 100% of the time but we can promise that we will always try 100% of the time to be the best we can be.
Agronomy: The Science (and Art) of Field Crops and Soil Management
To say that we farm in a unique manner would be an understatement. Anyone who has driven by many of our fields in the Claresholm area will notice that our fields have taller stubble than the rest of the fields in the area.
This is because we use a unique harvesting tool called a stripper header. A machine composed of a rotor with specialized fingers on it that picks the grain off the plant without pulling the standing straw into the combine creating many unique agronomic advantages.
Due to the increased length of our stubble (also known as residue) and our desire to do the best job possible at seeding time; we also use disc drills to seed our crops. The ultra low disturbance seeding job done by a disc drill, sometimes makes it hard to tell if we have seeded until the crop emerges.
We are firm believers in the power of crop rotations and believe many of the agronomic problems affecting agriculture on the Canadian prairies are a result of poor crop rotations. Long term rotations have been the key to our success and will continue to be vital to our operation in the future.
Using cover crops and incorporating cattle into our annual crop land is something we have been doing in the past, by using more cover crops and new methods to seed them we hope to be able to increase bio-diversity and reduce our reliance on synthetic inputs.
