GrainsWest Tech 2020

Tech 2020 Grains West 24 BY LEE HART PHOTOS BY ZOLTAN VARADI ARCHIVAL IMAGES COURTESY OF GLENBOW ARCHIVES’, UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY LIBRARIES AND CULTURAL RESOURCES DIGITAL COLLECTION AN AG TECH PIONEER Alberta farmer Charles Noble created better tools for soil conservation ver seven-plus decades, Alberta farmer Charles Sherwood Noble developed and promoted new farming practices and technical innovations. Of these, the Noble blade cultivator was used around the world as a low soil disturbance weed control tool. For his work, he was named a Member of the Order of the British Empire in 1943. Noble was among a number of Alberta farmers who set out to improve soil conservation at the turn of the 20th century. Fearless in his pursuit of agronomic innovation and the prevention of soil erosion, he earned a central place in the history book of western Canadian agriculture. O Pictured here in the 1920s, Charles Noble was inspired by drought conditions to pursue improved cultivation practices. A wheat crop at harvest time on the Noble farm in 1911. FEATURE