County and hamlet residents, there are three ways to earn an entry in our spring draw for $500 in Flagstaff Bucks! In fact, it’s as easy as ABC!
Whose Responsibility is it?
Many landowners in Alberta are facing challenges with abandoned oil leases that no one seems to know whose responsibility they are. What once put dollars in landowners’ pockets is now adding to their financial burden and potentially placing our environment at risk.
2024 Business Plan now available
Under the Alberta Municipal Government Act, Flagstaff County is mandated to adopt a three-year operating budget and a five-year capital budget in anticipation of future revenues and expenditures across the organization.
RALP applications open
Applications for Year 2 of the Resilient Agricultural Landscape Program (RALP) are now being accepted. The RALP objective is to increase the environmental resiliency of agricultural landscapes by accelerating adoption of beneficial management practices (BMPs) that maximize provision of …
Precision Livestock
The world has been evolving with technology for many years and the agricultural industry has changed to adopt these new technologies in many accelerated ways. With crop production, our equipment has evolved to include the latest technology at our fingertips.
2023 Year-End Review
This year the Ag Services department faced many challenges along with producers in Flagstaff County to achieve its successes within our programs and services. The Ag Services department consists of 11 seasonal employees, myself the Agricultural Fieldman, and Matthew Pfeffer the Agricultural Foreman.
CAO earns prestigious award
Flagstaff County is pleased to announce that CAO Shelly Armstrong has been awarded the 2023 R.W. Hay Award as outstanding rural CAO at the recent Rural Municipalities of Alberta (RMA) convention in Edmonton.
Fall Fertilization
Now that harvest 2023 is behind us it’s time to start planning for the next growing season. For some that means servicing equipment and placing it back in the shed and for others, it means bringing machinery out of the shed to go back to work.
Maintaining Pasture Lands
According to the 2006 Agricultural Profile, in Flagstaff County there are more than 1,000,000 acres of farmland, 250,000 acres of them are pasture or hay land. Of that 250,000 pasture acres, it is estimated that 100,000 acres are tame or seeded, and 150,000 acres are natural.
Harvest in Full Swing
It is that time of year when we start to see more machinery going down the road and I ask all of you to share the roadway accordingly.