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Sandra Duchak has volunteered with the Gainsborough 4-H club for 42 years.
Faces of ag, Farmit Manitoba, Other

Portage la Prairie 4-H leader recognized for 42 years’ service

Faces of Ag: Sandra Duchak chipped in to keep her kids’ club afloat. Decades later, she’s still finding joy in helping kids find their voice, confidence

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The adage is the average person is more afraid of public speaking than death. Sandra Duchak was no exception when she started volunteering with the Gainsborough 4-H club 42 years ago. Before long all four of her kids were in the club, and all of them had communications projects to do. She had to up
Gordon and Val Turner pose with their seven grandchildren.
Faces of ag, Farmit Manitoba, Other

A bumper crop of conservation projects

Faces of Ag: Val and Gordon Turner have developed a penchant for sustainable management projects on their land near Treherne

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Gord and Val Turner really put sustainable management practices to work on their Treherne-area farmland. There are small water retention pro­jects. Sloped areas have been stabilized with increased vegetation. Sustainable ag practices are being put to the test in the field and water bodies have been put out of reach of livestock. It is, according
John Towle poses with his CWRA Distinguished Service Award Dec. 7 in Brandon.
Faces of ag, Farmit Manitoba, Other

Watershed association honours water architect with Distinguished Service Award

Faces of Ag: Water management fixture John Towle has joined the list of CWRA Distinguished Service Award recipients

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It took some time for John Towle to get to the door after leaving the stage of the Manitoba Association of Watersheds awards banquet in early December. It seemed like every other person wanted to shake his hand. In his grip, Towle carried an inscribed paddle, the mark of his Distinguished Service Award, just presented
Greg (left) and Brenda (right) Riddell accept the sign marking R4 Ranch as the 2020 Manitoba Charolais Association Commercial Breeder of the Year.
Faces of ag, Livestock

All in the family

Faces of Ag: The Riddell family of Pierson has been named the Manitoba Charolais Association Commercial Breeder of the Year

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Greg Riddell of R4 Ranch near Pierson remembers that his father kept cattle on a small scale. So the decision to ramp up livestock operations was not totally novel after he and his wife, Brenda, took over the family farm in the late 1970s. In the decades since, the fourth-generation farmer has expanded that foothold
Ukko Robotics founders Daniel Badiou and Katrina Jean-Laflamme.
Faces of ag, Farmit Manitoba

Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes couple puts mechanical mettle to regenerative livestock farming

Faces of Ag: Ukko Robotics’ Rova Barn is blazing a trail towards automated pastured poultry and pigs

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One could say the origin story of the robotic Rova Barn begins with a young kid on a dairy farm who wanted to go to the beach, or on a family road trip, or just to Grandma’s for Sunday dinner. But milking needs trumped adventure. “We didn’t go on holidays when I was a kid,”
Alfred Lea with Star Wholesale Ltd. office manager Carey Iuliani.
Faces of ag, Farmit Manitoba

Riverton-based potato chip company owner passing on business acumen

Faces of Ag: Alfred Lea recently signed a deal to distribute Tomahawk Chips Canada-wide but leaves time to help young people close to home

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As his potato chip company takes off across Canada, Alfred Lea is encouraging young people to follow their own dreams and build businesses. “Don’t think they can’t do what they want,” he said. Kids need leadership and encouragement — and he aims to give it to them. Lea owns Native Canadian Chip Corporation, which is
Gord Bacon, former CEO of Pulse Canada and now a Canadian Agricultural Hall of Fame inductee, spent decades devoted to catapulting the sector’s profile to the next level.
Faces of ag, Farmit Manitoba

Bacon a pulse promoter extraordinaire

Faces of Ag: From decades of work elevating the pulse sector to helping make 2016 the UN’s International Year of Pulses, Gord Bacon has had a long, interesting career

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Getting Gordon Bacon to talk about himself isn’t easy. The recently retired longtime CEO of Pulse Canada, who will be inducted into the Canadian Agricultural Hall of Fame Nov. 21, prefers to talk about food, nutrition, health and sustainability. It’s not surprising with his passion for pulses — leguminous edible seeds such as dry peas,
Lourdes Still in her flower and dye workshop on her farm near La Broquerie in southeastern Manitoba.
Faces of ag, Farmit Manitoba

Embracing endless possibilities

Faces of Ag: Manitoba flower farmer finds niche in natural dye and eco-printing

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It’s difficult to believe that the vivid orange, burgundy and yellow floral print wasn’t painted or printed on the soft, crepe scarf in Lourdes Still’s hands. Instead, these scarves are dyed into the fabric straight from marigolds, coreopsis flowers, and even onion skins right there on Masagana Flower Farm near La Broquerie. Still stirred a
Michael Eskin is a professor in the department of food and human nutritional sciences at the University of Manitoba.
Faces of ag, Farmit Manitoba

Pioneer canola researcher awarded the Order of Manitoba

Faces of Ag: He sings, he raps and his scholarship helped make canola what it is today

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Michael Eskin has a career in biochemistry and food science going back more than 50 years, but last time he was in the news it was for something different: music. His song commemorating the centenary of the discovery of insulin, as reported by CBC, got picked up by the American Oil Chemists’ Society, and Eskin
Brian Chorney farms near East Selkirk with his wife Brenda.
Faces of ag, Farmit Manitoba, Other

Manitoba farmer recognized as early voice for biofuels in Canada

Faces of Ag: As a farmer and agricultural engineer, Brian Chorney brought a depth of perspective to the boardroom table

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“Well geez, you should let your name stand,” seems like the common origin of many successful careers in agriculture organizational work. Fellow farmers recognize leadership qualities and exert a little pressure to fill a director’s chair. East Selkirk farmer Brian Chorney is, by all accounts, not one to boast. But in this case, it seems

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