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Living Lab - Atlantic Project Overview

Scott Anderson Site Coordinator

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What is a Living Laboratory?

Co-design Exploration/Experimentation Adoption

Validate and refine the cycle of innovation (priorities, outcomes, etc) Identify the needs/outcomes – anticipate possible impediments Acquire new data, conduct experiments, develop new knowledge Take stock of the experiments and the cycle of innovation

Evaluation

Evaluate new practice or technology, and adjust based on producer input

(Adapted from L’Acadie Lab)

A Living Laboratory is an integrated approach to agricultural innovation that bring farmers, scientists and other partners together to co- develop, test and monitor BMPs and new technologies in a real life context. The result will be more practical technologies and sustainable farming practices adopted more quickly by Canadian farmers.

Planning/Targeting

Traditional Innovation Approach

Research Development Knowledge Transfer

Evolution of KTT

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RDT Relationships & Collaboration Knowledge Transfer / Extension Adoption / Practice Change Relationships & Collaboration

Something was still missing…..

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A New Approach for KTT

• Living Labs

– co-develop the project – co-collect the measurements – co-create the science information and conclusions – End-goal: earlier adoption of BMPs and demonstrated success by producers to their peers

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Steen and van Bueren, 2017

User Centred Approach

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Co-Development: Key Points

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❑ It is a regular and required process in an

• ngoing cycle of innovation.

❑ It includes organized events where all participants are focused specifically on evaluating practices or technologies and contributing ideas toward their improvement. ❑ It is user-centred, but is also collaborative: users and partners from various disciplines and backgrounds all contribute their unique perspectives toward a common goal.

Co-Development

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❑ It complements informal or unplanned moments of reflection and conversation about potential solutions. ❑ It must be captured in a way that will enable decisions to be made.

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PEI Living Lab

• The Team

– 70 participants – AAFC, DFO, ECCC, CFIA, PMC, PEI Depts of Agriculture and Environment, academia (Dal, UNB, St. FX, 9 Ph.D. or M.Sc.), NGOs (including watershed groups), producer groups – STB Living Labs management team

• 2 Living Labs sites in 2019 (PEI, MB)
• Additional sites in 2020 and 2021

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1a 1a Identification of significant carbon sinks 1b 1b Spatial targeting

• f conservation at

the field scale 1c 1c Enhancing habitat capacity / minimizing risks 1d 1d Hydrology and water quality of non-grain plantings 2a 2a On farm soil health and fertility indicators and downstream implications 2b 2b Slow release fertilizers 3a 3a When and how to construct surface water storage 3b 3b Tile drainage management practices 3c 3c Informed drainage and wetland restoration 4a 4a Farm level economic analysis of BMPS 4b 4b Understanding BMP adoption 4c 4c Estimate of GHG reduction with BMPS C1 C1 Living Lab Clubs C2 C2 Regenerative Agriculture* C3 C3 Perennial Crops & Plants* C4 C4 Water Quality & Quantity* C5 C5 Pollinator Habitat C6 C6 Spatial Targeting for max benefit C7 C7 Understanding BMP uptake C8 C8 BMP policy evaluation and

• pportunities

C9 C9 Integration and Project management

PEI Living Lab

• Primary Objectives

– test and demonstrate BMPs to enhance soil health and crop productivity

• Cover crops, tillage, supplemental irrigation, soil mapping

– test and demonstrate BMPs to reduce nutrients, and pesticides loadings

• Modelling, precision agriculture, GHG, N decision support tool

– perform socio-economic assessment of BMPs

• Farm level economics and barriers/incentives to adoption

– transfer knowledge and technology of BMP

• On farm demonstrations

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BMP1: Use of Fall Seeded Cover Crops following Primary Tillage

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2019-20 Update

Atlantic Living Laboratories Semi-Annual Meeting November 19, 2019

BMP 1: Cover Crops Before Potatoes

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Selection of fields (up to 8) and treatments Soil sampling for soil chemical, soil N supply, Verticillium/nematodes, soil health characteristics, compaction Record percentage ground cover Measure erosion potential (pins, splash pans) Measure impact on yield/quality of potatoes

• Show the benefits of fall cover crop following tillage for erosion control, soil

health, soil organic matter, and yield in potatoes the following year

BMP2: Use of Fall Seeded Cover Crops following Potato Production

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2019-20 Update

Atlantic Living Laboratories Semi-Annual Meeting November 19, 2019

BMP 2: Cover Crops after Potatoes

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Selection of fields (up to 8) and treatments Soil sampling for soil chemical, soil N supply, soil health characteristics, soil nitrate at 3 depths Record percentage ground cover Measure erosion potential (pins, splash pans)

• Show the benefits of fall cover crop following potato harvest to reduce soil

erosion, intercept soil nitrates, improve soil health.

• Supporting Activity #2

BMP3: Use of Full-Season Soil-Building Rotation Crops for Building Soil OM

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2019-20 Update

Atlantic Living Laboratories Semi-Annual Meeting November 19, 2019

BMP 3: Soil-Building Crops

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Selection of fields (up to 10) and treatments Soil sampling for soil chemical, soil N supply, soil health characteristics, Verticillium/nematodes, compaction Recording above ground biomass Yield/quality of potatoes the following year

• Show the benefits of full-season, non-harvested rotation crops at improving soil
• rganic matter, soil structure, and disease/pest pressure
• Supporting Activity #2

BMP 4- Nurse Cropping Demonstration Trials within Potato and Corn Production Systems

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2019-20 Update

Atlantic Living Laboratories Semi-Annual Meeting November 19, 2019

BMP-5 Demonstrating Potato Productivity and Nitrogen use efficiency as affected by Supplemental Irrigation

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2019-20 Update

Atlantic Living Laboratories Semi-Annual Meeting November 19, 2019

BMP#6 - Effect of irrigation on yield, quality and economic value of existing and emerging processing potato varieties

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2019-20 Update

Atlantic Living Laboratories Semi-Annual Meeting November 19, 2019

BMP#7 - Reducing nitrogen loss through use of slow release fertilizer products

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2019-20 Update

Atlantic Living Laboratories Semi-Annual Meeting November 19, 2019

Using constructed wetland and vegetated drain ditches* to improve water quality (External BMP 8)

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2019-20 Update

Atlantic Living Laboratories Semi-Annual Meeting November 19, 2019

Assessment of the impact of land use and management practices on nitrate loading in intensive agricultural watershed

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2019-20 Update

Atlantic Living Laboratories Semi-Annual Meeting January 27, 2020

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Questions???