On September 25th, we invite you to an in-person seminar/field day on forage

On September 25, the association “Farmers' Saeima” in cooperation with the LBTU LPTF Institute of Agriculture invites you to a seminar and field day “Good grassland – good forage. Which mixtures to choose?! News from the LBTU Institute of Agriculture.”

Seminar venue: Skrīveri Food Plant, Daugavas Street 2, Klidziņa, Skrīveri Parish, Aizkraukle Municipality

AGENDA OF WORK

09:30 – 10:00 Arrival, check-in

10:00 – 10:10 Opening of the seminar by Iveta Grudovska, crop production expert of the association “Zemnieku Saeima”

10:10 – 10:20 A brief insight into the history and current operations of the Skrīveri Food Plant – Baiba Lūse, SIA “Skrīveri Food Plant”

10:20 – 11:40 Demonstration of perennial herbaceous and leguminous varieties selected and widely grown in Latvia (Lot 7, No. 22-00-A00102-000014, 10.2.1-20/22/P24, ID No. ZM/2022/11_ELFLA) – Sarmīte Rancāne, Leading Researcher at LBTU LPTF

11.40 – 12:00 Yield and quality of herbaceous mixtures depending on species proportion and seeding rate, quality comparison – Iveta Gūtmane, SIA “Latvijas Šķirnes sējas”, Dr. agronomist

12.00 – 12:20 What do silage analysis results tell us? Ieva Krakopa, catering specialist at IK “IK konsultācijas”

12:20 – 12:40 Silage making mistakes of 2023, challenges that were taken into account in 2024 to avoid repeating them – Peteris Dambergs, Manager of SIA “A Teams Solutions”

12:40 -13:15 The effectiveness of wood ash for regulating soil pH levels for field crops and comparison with other liming materials (Lot 8, No. 22-00-A00102-000015, 10.2.1-20/22/P23, ID No. ZM/2022/11_ELFLA) – Agrita Švarta, leading researcher at LBTU LPTF; Anda Rūtenberga, head of the Plant Variety Innovation Center at LBTU LPTF

13:15 – 14:00 Lunch break

14:00 – 16:00 Country Day – Agricultural Institute's experimental demonstrations for animal feed production

Registration for the seminar and field day is open until September 23rd.: https://forms.gle/iodViJq2hiTCQGeG8

The event was organized within the framework of the Central Baltic Sea Region Cross-Border Cooperation Programme project “Sustainable Silage” No. CB0100103

Photographs/filming will be taken during the event, and these materials may be used for publicity purposes.