Nonprofit AgriARM site located in Melfort, SK doing small plot trials. We have been serving the agricultural community in Northeast Saskatchewan since 1997 through research and demonstration of agronomic practices and techniques. Find us at www.neag.cahttps://bsky.app/profile/narf-melfort.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/narf-melfort.bsky.social/post/3mtsh67amtc2oOn the 150th anniversary of Treaty 6 today, we are thankful that we get to farm, live, and work on productive & diverse Treaty 6 land 🌱 ⤵️ throwback to when kids from Kinistin Saulteaux Nation toured our farm & we attended their Treaty Day. Here's to our sustained partnership!24 Aug 2026 04:18 +0000at://did:plc:3bvahdgrkdk2moxb2umge7vb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtsh67amtc2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/narf-melfort.bsky.social/post/3mpmfesvn4k2sHappy birthday, Canada! 🍁🫎 It's rainy and wet out today so our summer students did some patriotic arts and crafts and let their creativity shine on this special day!🎨❤️01 Jul 2026 20:49 +0000at://did:plc:3bvahdgrkdk2moxb2umge7vb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpmfesvn4k2shttps://bsky.app/profile/narf-melfort.bsky.social/post/3mpgxfvkoqk2aLast week NARF hosted Grade 11 students from Melfort high school (MUCC) for an hour. It was wet in the field thanks to the rains we've been getting, so we couldn't visit fields but we made the most of our indoor learning time by showing different seeds, fertilizers, & equipment!29 Jun 2026 16:56 +0000at://did:plc:3bvahdgrkdk2moxb2umge7vb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpgxfvkoqk2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/narf-melfort.bsky.social/post/3mp2rb57k7k2wOur Field Days are 3 weeks away! Mark your calendars for July 15 and 16. It's completely free, with free lunch included 🍔🥧! For registration, more info, and speaker lineup, visit: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/melfort-research-farm-plot-tour-tickets-199201657921224 Jun 2026 20:34 +0000at://did:plc:3bvahdgrkdk2moxb2umge7vb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mp2rb57k7k2whttps://bsky.app/profile/narf-melfort.bsky.social/post/3mp2difzk5k2pFall-seeded crops are such a delight to see at this time of the year, with flowers blooming and bumble bees a-buzz! 😊🐝 This is winter camelina blooming with a bumble bee buzzing in it! (1/3)24 Jun 2026 16:28 +0000at://did:plc:3bvahdgrkdk2moxb2umge7vb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mp2difzk5k2phttps://bsky.app/profile/narf-melfort.bsky.social/post/3mm45nma5yc2nWe seeded our first trials last week on May 13th! Ultra-early wheat ✅ Seeded (finally) Early seeded chickpeas ✅ Seeded. We flagged a whole bunch of trials too. And then it snowed 2 days later and over the weekend 🥲18 May 2026 05:33 +0000at://did:plc:3bvahdgrkdk2moxb2umge7vb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mm45nma5yc2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/narf-melfort.bsky.social/post/3mkuzj3jd4k2fYesterday (May 1st) was the first day of our summer students at NARF. We are waiting for the snow in the fields to melt so we can get out and get started on flagging and soil sampling!02 May 2026 16:05 +0000at://did:plc:3bvahdgrkdk2moxb2umge7vb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkuzj3jd4k2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/narf-melfort.bsky.social/post/3m7ne2ckowk2uSK Agriculture's Tisdale branch is hosting the Northeast Growing Connections event on Tue, December 16th in the Salopian room at the Recplex in Tisdale from 1:30-4pm. It is for ag professionals to build connections and grow your network. We'll be there, hope to see you!10 Dec 2025 15:15 +0000at://did:plc:3bvahdgrkdk2moxb2umge7vb/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7ne2ckowk2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/narf-melfort.bsky.social/post/3m3gccutvek2yThese pictures are from a couple of weeks ago but WE CAN SWATH OUR PLOTS NOW! This is the Zürn multi-tool carrier and we tried swathing flax, chickpea, and canola with it. It will also be very useful for some of our intercropping trials next year like hairy vetch - fall rye. Video in the next post.17 Oct 2025 22:15 +0000at://did:plc:3bvahdgrkdk2moxb2umge7vb/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3gccutvek2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/narf-melfort.bsky.social/post/3m3gc5vqjk22yToday we dug up polymer-coated urea that had been buried for 1 week! No combining this week thanks to the snow and rain we got last weekend - The field is too wet to get in with equipment. Also the chickpeas have gone down (lodged) so they won't be fun to pick up🥲17 Oct 2025 22:12 +0000at://did:plc:3bvahdgrkdk2moxb2umge7vb/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3gc5vqjk22yhttps://bsky.app/profile/narf-melfort.bsky.social/post/3m2uun2bemc2vToday we also banded different enhanced efficiency fertilizers for a trial, combined soybeans, and combined our faba bean-wheat intercrop trial. Thoughts from the combine operator Brianne: "The wheat threshed better than I expected!" We are now 90% done harvest! 🥳 And we found unidentified larvae 🤔10 Oct 2025 23:55 +0000at://did:plc:3bvahdgrkdk2moxb2umge7vb/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2uun2bemc2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/narf-melfort.bsky.social/post/3m2uujj2jx22bWe buried organza bags with polymer-coated urea and biodegradable polymer-coated urea today. The idea is to dig out one bag per week and weigh the prills to assess product loss over time. This project is led by CLC in Prince Albert with expert input from @lecowell.bsky.social10 Oct 2025 23:53 +0000at://did:plc:3bvahdgrkdk2moxb2umge7vb/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2uujj2jx22bhttps://bsky.app/profile/narf-melfort.bsky.social/post/3m2oxn4s4dk2jAnd "that's a wrap" on the flax! (credit to Brianne for the pun!) We finished flax (brown and yellow) and red clover harvest yesterday. Flax went mostly well (wrapped just a couple of times) but clover plugged the combine in pretty much every plot.08 Oct 2025 15:32 +0000at://did:plc:3bvahdgrkdk2moxb2umge7vb/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2oxn4s4dk2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/narf-melfort.bsky.social/post/3m266d222rc2lWe got funding from @natureunitedcanada.bsky.social for a project to see if leaving oat volunteers to grow as cover crops (instead of terminating them via fall burnoff) has beneficial effects on the soil & the following canola crop. It's both small-plot as well as field-scale. (Thanks NU!) (1/3)01 Oct 2025 23:17 +0000at://did:plc:3bvahdgrkdk2moxb2umge7vb/app.bsky.feed.post/3m266d222rc2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/narf-melfort.bsky.social/post/3m22spzhmcs2eTwo weeks ago we seeded intercrops of fall rye-hairy vetch, and winter camelina-hairy vetch for a demonstration of fall-seeded intercrops. Yesterday we did plant counts on them. They've come up nicely! This trial is being conducted here at NARF, Melfort (NE Sask) and at SERF, Redvers (SE Sask).30 Sep 2025 15:11 +0000at://did:plc:3bvahdgrkdk2moxb2umge7vb/app.bsky.feed.post/3m22spzhmcs2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/narf-melfort.bsky.social/post/3lzmsc244r22yWe are >50% done harvest today! 🥳 Here is our little (combine) trooper. Dust is in the air, weather has been amazingly cooperative for harvest, and it seems like everybody is tired, overworked & itchy😪😅 Happy and safe harvest, everyone! We all got this! ✊25 Sep 2025 01:26 +0000at://did:plc:3bvahdgrkdk2moxb2umge7vb/app.bsky.feed.post/3lzmsc244r22yhttps://bsky.app/profile/narf-melfort.bsky.social/post/3lzjkvvpguc2hA cat had kittens in one of the old sheds at the farm! Video in the next post!23 Sep 2025 18:36 +0000at://did:plc:3bvahdgrkdk2moxb2umge7vb/app.bsky.feed.post/3lzjkvvpguc2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/narf-melfort.bsky.social/post/3lxv75jcs2k2aSome more fun moments with students this year: 1) Seeding chickling vetch with single-row seeder 2) Lauriche with her (dead) grasshopper she found while cleaning seed, named "Jiminy no hop" 3) Picking haskaps at @info_at_CLC field day 4) Apple-picking in the AAFC orchard on the students' last day02 Sep 2025 22:47 +0000at://did:plc:3bvahdgrkdk2moxb2umge7vb/app.bsky.feed.post/3lxv75jcs2k2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/narf-melfort.bsky.social/post/3lxv3oblc3k22We had an incredible group of summer students this year and last week we said goodbye to them as they headed back to university. It feels quiet around here without them, so here are some pictures from some fun occasions: Melfort parade, field tours, UTVing in the field, and the last morning meeting.02 Sep 2025 21:45 +0000at://did:plc:3bvahdgrkdk2moxb2umge7vb/app.bsky.feed.post/3lxv3oblc3k22https://bsky.app/profile/narf-melfort.bsky.social/post/3lswxxaa6qk25You are invited to our field days on July 23 & 24! July 23rd - Focus on main crops in NE Sask July 24th - Special crops, regenerative farming trials Register for July 23: https://eventbrite.ca/e/1431611802439 Register for July 24: https://eventbrite.ca/e/1431996984529 *Free tour with lunch both days*!02 Jul 2025 00:38 +0000at://did:plc:3bvahdgrkdk2moxb2umge7vb/app.bsky.feed.post/3lswxxaa6qk25https://bsky.app/profile/narf-melfort.bsky.social/post/3lseleljjx22zAnd here are some random pics from the field season so far! - Fire extinguisher training by Lars from AAFC - (Happenstance) Bucket Hat Day - Tractor training for summer students - Teaching students to back up the seeder! (They did very good!)24 Jun 2025 17:05 +0000at://did:plc:3bvahdgrkdk2moxb2umge7vb/app.bsky.feed.post/3lseleljjx22zhttps://bsky.app/profile/narf-melfort.bsky.social/post/3lsehwai3vs2z#TakeBackTuesday It's been 2 months since we spring seeded our first trial on April 25! We started with early seeding dates for seed date trials. This year we have seed date trials for canola, pea, faba bean, lentil, chickpea, soybean, and flax. Here's Michael, Brianne, and Gayelene in action! (1/2)24 Jun 2025 16:03 +0000at://did:plc:3bvahdgrkdk2moxb2umge7vb/app.bsky.feed.post/3lsehwai3vs2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/narf-melfort.bsky.social/post/3lqv2cy7r522bWe started out flagging and soil sampling, I think the students must've soil sampled for 5 whole days as some trials required extensive soil sampling by hand. Safe to say all of them are pros now! And while sampling a farmer's field that we're doing a trial in, this sweet dog came to say hi!05 Jun 2025 19:25 +0000at://did:plc:3bvahdgrkdk2moxb2umge7vb/app.bsky.feed.post/3lqv2cy7r522bhttps://bsky.app/profile/narf-melfort.bsky.social/post/3lqshpvdlp22fAn update is long overdue re: ongoings at NARF! Today we seeded our last spring-seeded trial. We have over 15 diff crops this year. Over the next few days I'll post pics and videos of all the things that have happened! First off, we got a Zürn multi-tool carrier! 1/204 Jun 2025 18:46 +0000at://did:plc:3bvahdgrkdk2moxb2umge7vb/app.bsky.feed.post/3lqshpvdlp22fhttps://bsky.app/profile/narf-melfort.bsky.social/post/3lnqf2osquk2kLast week was buzzing with activity at NARF as the weather turned and we could finally get out and work in the field! We've been busy flagging for trials, soil sampling, picking up & distributing seed, and Michael has been getting equipment ready for seeding!26 Apr 2025 18:38 +0000at://did:plc:3bvahdgrkdk2moxb2umge7vb/app.bsky.feed.post/3lnqf2osquk2khttps://bsky.app/profile/narf-melfort.bsky.social/post/3lkpeiebmbc2yWe are presenting at two events next week! First up, on March 26th in Melfort, Ishita will be presenting results from regenerative agriculture focused trials from 2024 and give a teaser of upcoming trials on the same theme (intercropping/ companion cropping & more). Event by Collective Impact 🧵19 Mar 2025 04:39 +0000at://did:plc:3bvahdgrkdk2moxb2umge7vb/app.bsky.feed.post/3lkpeiebmbc2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/narf-melfort.bsky.social/post/3lfukqhmooc24This week we are in Saskatoon participating in Ag shows and forums. Here's Brianne and I at the AgriARM booth at Western Crop Production Show on Tuesday. Today is the last day of CPS so if you are in Saskatoon, stop by and check out all the exhibitors!16 Jan 2025 15:09 +0000at://did:plc:3bvahdgrkdk2moxb2umge7vb/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfukqhmooc24https://bsky.app/profile/narf-melfort.bsky.social/post/3lc7oyktc6c2fWe finished seed cleaning last week, guess this bean wasn't happy - It won't stop screaming! (Pic by Gayelene!)01 Dec 2024 03:43 +0000at://did:plc:3bvahdgrkdk2moxb2umge7vb/app.bsky.feed.post/3lc7oyktc6c2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/narf-melfort.bsky.social/post/3lahk4hcdyr2nWe had a very successful 2024 field season with some of the highest yields in the last few years! (Wheat yielding as high as 106 bu/ac! 🤯) While our super-helper, Gayelene, has been busy cleaning seed, here are some pictures from this year. P.S. Credit for the drone shot to Brianne!08 Nov 2024 19:47 +0000at://did:plc:3bvahdgrkdk2moxb2umge7vb/app.bsky.feed.post/3lahk4hcdyr2n