The province of Alberta has been in cyclical droughts since the mid 1980’s.  In the last 5 years almost every corner of Alberta has experienced diminished surface water levels, leading to ranchers and farmers needing to diversity their stock water options.  Providing water delivered through a shallow buried pasture pipeline is not a new innovation, but it is new to many operators.  Pasture pipeline is simple a method of moving water from one place to another.  Although the water source is often a well with line power (such as a home site) it can also be natural surface water, a stream, or dugout and be moved via solar power or sometimes gravity for remote applications.  This webinar will discuss pipeline advantages and different types and sizes of pipe that can be used for pasture pipelines and provide some practical tips for creating a successful pipeline water system.

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Barry Irving is a retired manager of the University of Alberta research ranches (25,000 acres on 2 ranches and 1800 brood cows).  He installed his first pasture pipeline at the Roy Berg Kinsella Research Ranch in 2002 when surface water sources in east-central Alberta dried up and withered away.  Barry and Judy now operate a small company, Pasture Pipeline, and sell and install shallow buried pipe for watering livestock on rangeland.  To date they have installed or sold over 900,000 feet of pasture pipeline.  For more details feel free to check out www.pasturepipeline.com or search for “pasture pipeline” and our website will pop up.