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VIDEO: Pulses offer recipe for excitement at Special Crops Convention

Convention took place in Toronto on July 6

By Allan Dawson
Reporter

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Published: July 18, 2016
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There was record attendance at this year’s Pulse and Special Crops Convention in Toronto July 6-8 with more than 500 attendees from more than 24 countries. Manitoba Co-operator reporter Allan Dawson was there and interviewed Gordon Bacon, President of Pulse Canada and CEO the Canadian Special Crops Association, about the event and the excitement around pulses.

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Allan Dawson

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Allan Dawson is a reporter with the Manitoba Co-operator based near Miami, Man. Covering agriculture since 1980, Dawson has spent most of his career with the Co-operator except for several years with Farmers’ Independent Weekly and before that a Morden-Winkler area radio station.

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