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VIDEO: Soaring Eagle wins first place in Inventors’ Showcase at Ag Days
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VIDEO: Soaring Eagle wins first place in Inventors’ Showcase at Ag Days

AgriLite Conveyor Trailers awarded 2nd place win for its fertilizer and seed tender trailer

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Soaring Eagle Grain Equipment took first place in the Inventors’ Showcase on Jan. 17, 2018 at Manitoba Ag Days for its swinging drive-over that hooks up to a grain auger or conveyor. The device allows farmers to easily move from one hopper to the next for unloading in order to save time. AgriLite Conveyor Trailers
Allan Preston is the chair of the Assiniboine River Basin Initiative (ARBI).
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Good water management, like good fences, makes good neighbours

ARBI was formed in 2014 to bring diverse stakeholders together for better watershed management planning across the Assiniboine Basin

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Water is a critical resource, yet all too often viewed as a nuisance or an impediment to production — and a problem to pass off to the neighbours. “There can be lots of fights about water,” said Ag Days speaker Allan Preston, chair of the Assiniboine River Basin Initiative (ARBI) who began his Jan. 17
Darren Bond, farm management specialist with Manitoba Agriculture, runs the audience through 2017 commodity markets during Ag Days Jan. 16-18, 2018.
Crops, Local news

Forget cost per acre — what’s it cost to grow a bushel?

Cost is often expressed as dollars per acre, but farm management specialist Darren Bond says it makes more sense to think of cost in terms of product produced

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Darren Bond wants farmers to stop thinking in dollars per acre. The farm management specialist with Manitoba Agriculture says cost per bushel sold is a more valuable number when farmers go to develop a marketing plan. Farmers sell their product per bushel, making it easier to track and predict profitability if cost uses the same
Dr. Rigas Karamanos explains the basic factors of maximum yield, one of several seminars held during Ag Days 2018.
Crops, Local news

Drought bullet dodged, but what’s next?

Crops drew heavily on water reserves last year, something that might be a problem with Manitoba’s meager snow cover

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Manitoba managed to thrive last year despite scant rainfall, but skimpy snow cover might mean trouble when it comes to maximum yield next year. Water was one of four things that Rigas Karamanos says will impact yield potential, along with genetic potential of the variety, solar radiation and fertility. The senior agronomist from Koch Fertilizer
Ardyn Williams of Souris tries her hand at the wheel of a virtual combine Jan. 16, one of over 800 booths at Ag Days 2018.
Local news

PHOTOS: Ag Days holds the course on exhibitor numbers

This year’s Ag Days attendance and participation lines up with previous years

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The weather is clear, the crowds have arrived and the exhibitor list is as big as ever as Manitoba Ag Days kicks off. Exhibitors met the bar set last year during the 40th anniversary event. The show expanded both its footage and exhibitor list after opening up the over 19,000-square-foot Brandon Curling Club for booths.
Speaking at at Ag Days in Brandon Jan. 16 Agriculture Minister Ralph Eichler announced an average seven per cent drop in crop insurance premiums for the 2018 crop. Some other important changes to crop insurance were announced in a news release, including ending the pre-harvest deductible for corn and soybeans.
Crops, Local news

Lower crop insurance premiums, in 2018

The pre-harvest deductible on corn and soybeans is ending and CHNR wheat gets its own category

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A host of changes, including lower premiums, are coming to crop insurance for the coming season. Speaking at Ag Days on Jan. 16 Ralph Eichler, the provincial agriculture minister told farmers they can expect to pay less, to no longer have pre-harvest deductibles for corn and soybeans, and to see changes in soybean coverage and
Birch Hills, Sask., farmer Florian Hagmann’s canola average averaged 70 bushels on 5,000 acres in 2017. Speaking at Ag Days Tuesday Hagmann said the “little things matter” when fgoing for top yields.
Crops, Local news

How to grow 70 bushel canola

Manitoba Ag Days speaker has a tip for growers looking to get the most out of their canola yields.

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It’s not the pots and pans that count in baking, it’s the ingredients, Birch Hills, Sask., farmer Florian Hagmann told the opening day of Ag Days here Tuesday. Last year on 5,000 acres Hagmann’s canola averaged 70 bushels an acre. When it comes to maximizing yields its the little things that count, Hagmann said. It
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada researcher, Sijo Joseph, goes over the finer points of a recently installed model stomach.
Local news, Other

Model stomach arrives at U of M

Stomach simulation to assist scientists with digestion evaluation

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Can you stomach it? Researchers with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada sure hope so, but just to be sure, they’re going to put it to the test. An artificial stomach has been installed at the Richardson Centre for Functional Foods and Nutraceuticals at the University of Manitoba. “It’s a system that’s based on the physiology of
Rachel Isaak and Dustin Peltier are taking over production of the traditional Trappist cheese made at the Holland monastery. The couple, who operates a catering company in Winnipeg, now possesses the last four wheels of cheese to be made there.
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Monastery passes on cheese-making method

A Winnipeg couple has been entrusted with a rare Trappist cheese recipe set for extinction

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Dustin Peltier and Rachel Isaak had no idea they’d one day carry on a centuries-old cheese-making method when they paid their first visit to the Trappist Monastery at Holland. That was two years ago, when the Winnipeg chefs and life partners went out to meet the monk there making a delicious cheese they’d served to

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