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Expanded speaking slate announced for Ag Days

71 speakers and a gamut of industry topics to take the stage at Ag Days 2023

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How do you come back from a last-minute cancellation that sidelined 31 speakers in 2022? If you ask Manitoba Ag Days program chair Stephanie Cruickshanks, you do it by exceeding that roster in 2023. Why it matters: Ag Days speakers range from geopolitical analysts and an in-depth look at fertilizer market to social media and
‘Ag Days Gives Back’ funding the future
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‘Ag Days Gives Back’ funding the future

Health, wellness and safety will be the theme of this year’s Ag Days Gives Back community grants

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Manitoba’s Ag Days is back and in person at Brandon’s Keystone Centre, and so is the show’s premiere initiative to pay back the community. Ag Days Gives Back has been an integral part of the annual Ag Days celebration and, over the last decade, has awarded thousands of dollars to programs and community groups throughout
Attendees gather and visit on the arena floor at a past Ag Days event. “I think this year is going to be a real celebration because of the two years we haven’t been able to host the show in person.” – Brad Crammond.
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Ag Days Innovation Showcase highlights bright ideas

From farm tinkerers to high-tech A.I. drones, it’s all at the show this year

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Brad Crammond lights up when he talks about the annual showcase that runs during Manitoba Ag Days at the Keystone Centre. As Ag Innovations Committee chair, he knows the showcase is a favourite attraction at Canada’s largest indoor farm show. This year it features 32 entries that can all be seen in person. “I think
From physical safety to mental health, it’s all part of farmer health and wellness, the theme of this year’s Manitoba Ag Days.
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Health and wellness front and centre at Manitoba Ag Days 2023

Organizers are focusing on encouraging farmers to care for themselves and others

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The last two years have been strange ones, as the pandemic played havoc with people’s health and tested the world’s economy. Production of goods and commodities slowed and stopped, supply chains were strained and farmers now find that inputs are scarce and expensive. Given the strain of living in strange times, the overarching theme for this year’s Ag Days Agricultural show is farmer health and wellness. “We’ve had some challenging
Welcome back – again – to Manitoba Ag Days
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Welcome back – again – to Manitoba Ag Days

Just as the show was set to go last year, COVID quashed it

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It was full steam ahead for Ag Days last January, and after a year of COVID hiatus, the board was eager to throw open the Keystone Centre doors for a huge “welcome back” celebration. But then another wave of pandemic hit, with its own set of crippling restrictions, and the show was closed for another
Undated image of a participant at the fall ag fair at Rocklyn, Ont., about 40 km southeast of Owen Sound. (Ontario Visited video screengrab via YouTube)

Ontario trims minimum memberships for ag, hort societies

Eligibility thresholds for provincial operating grants lowered

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Rules taking effect with the new year are expected to make it easier for Ontario agricultural and horticultural societies to qualify for provincial grants in the face of a membership crunch. The province on Friday confirmed amendments to regulation 16, attached to its Agricultural and Horticultural Organizations Act, kick in effective Sunday (Jan. 1, 2023).
(Stephen Ausmus photo courtesy ARS/USDA)
Livestock

Bird flu pressure bears down on B.C. farms

High-path flu hits 13 commercial farms in Fraser Valley within past week

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Commercial poultry farmers in British Columbia’s Fraser Valley have come out the worst so far this month in Canada’s year-long fight with highly pathogenic avian influenza. Since Wednesday last week, that region alone has seen outbreaks on 13 commercial poultry farms: nine at Abbotsford, three at Chillwack and one in the District of Kent. That’s
Manitoba Ag Days is once again giving back to students and communities.
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Manitoba Ag Days Gives Back deadline approaching

ACC students and community fire departments have until Nov. 15 to apply

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Manitoba Ag Days is reminding Assiniboine Community College (ACC) agribusiness students and community fire departments of the looming deadline to apply for the Ag Days Gives Back program. Those interested have until Nov. 15 to apply for grants and scholarships. Over the last 10 years, the farm show has given more than $347,500 for rural
File photo of a CFIA vehicle. (Dave Bedard photo)
Livestock

Avian flu circles back to Quebec

Saskatchewan's bird mingling ban held over

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Outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian flu have returned to Quebec’s poultry sector after a lull of just over two months, while more Canadian cases continue to pile up at points west. Canada’s fall migratory season for wild birds appears to have led to the return of outbreaks in both commercial and backyard poultry flocks and
Screengrab of turkeys on display at Canadian Western Agribition in Regina, from a 2017 promotional video. (CWA video screengrab via YouTube)
Livestock

Saskatchewan, Ontario ban birds at events

Bans back on as fall migratory season underway, avian flu cases stack up

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At least two provinces now have bans in place on birds being brought to fall ag fairs and other such events, as cases of highly pathogenic avian influenza pick up again in Canada’s domestic birds. Ontario — which had such a ban in place this spring — reinstated it effective Sept. 23 through to Oct.

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