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Part of the programming in the new digital agriculture technology program will focus on data collection using drones.
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ACC program looks to bridge digital gap in agriculture

New ACC program to add tech savvy aggies to the workforce targets

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A new program at Assiniboine Community College aims to fill high-tech labour gaps in the agricultural sector. The two-year advanced diploma program in digital agriculture technology will be launched this fall at the college’s Russ Edwards School of Agriculture and Environment. “This program is about equipping students with practical skills that will be invaluable in the rapidly evolving field
Assiniboine Community College staff and supporters stand outside the college’s Valleyview Building, the future home of the Prairie Innovation Centre for Sustainable Agriculture in 2020.
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ACC enters hopeful home stretch

Funding gives college a big boost towards ag expansion

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Assiniboine Community College is holding out for federal funds that would top off what it needs to start construction on its Prairie Innovation Centre for Sustainable Agriculture. The provincial government has committed around $90 million, college president Mark Frison said, and as of the third week of January, the private fundraising campaign had met its
Russ Edwards, founder of WGI Westman Group, now has ACC’s ag school as a namesake -- which was more recently given a new logo to match.
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ACC ag school brand gets revamped

The school, which was renamed last year, now has a new logo to match

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Assiniboine Community College’s agriculture school has a new look. On Sept. 26, the college unveiled the new brand for its Russ Edwards School of Agriculture and Environment. ACC renamed the school last fall in honour of Edwards, the founder of WGI Westman Group. Companies under that corporate umbrella include grain handling and storage equipment firm
A concept of the promised Prairie Innovation Centre for Sustainable Agriculture.
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College’s sustainable ag centre draws campaign commitments

ACC's planned ag programming hub a topic at pre-election debate

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Assiniboine Community College’s new hub for agricultural programming has been years in the making but, in a rare show of political common ground, all three of Manitoba’s major parties now say they’d like to help see the project done. The college’s promised Prairie Innovation Centre for Sustainable Agriculture came up Tuesday during a leaders’ debate
ACC’s incoming mechatronics course will target labour needs of an increasingly technical agribusiness sector, the college says.
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New ACC course to target advanced technical know-how

Two courses, mechatronics and horticulture (new to the college’s Parkland campus), have been slated for launch next year

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A course set to open in Brandon’s Assiniboine Community College campus next fall will prepare workers to run, troubleshoot and fix equipment in increasingly automated agri-food processing facilities. “It’s the future. Everything’s going digital,” said Chris Budiwski, chair of the college’s agriculture and environment school. On Aug. 2, ACC announced that, as of September 2024, it will
Charley Sprenger of PAMI has been settling in at Brandon’s Assiniboine Community College.
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PAMI, Assiniboine Community College join forces

The research and development group has added its presence to the Brandon college

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The Prairie Agricultural Machinery Institute closed its doors in Portage la Prairie last year, but the ready source of agricultural research, innovation and equipment development hasn’t left Manitoba. Brandon’s Assiniboine Community College, now in the midst of a major expansion of ag and ag-related programming, has brought PAMI to its main campus. Charley Sprenger, a
A concept drawing of ACC’s Prairie Innovation Centre for Sustainable Agriculture.
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ACC Prairie Innovation Centre sees $50K bump

Insurance provider Johnston Group is the latest to give money to the Brandon project

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A Winnipeg-based insurance provider has added its name to the companies supporting Assiniboine Community College’s (ACC’S) Prairie Innovation Centre for Sustainable Agriculture. The incoming hub for ag and ag-adjacent programming at ACC received $50,000 from Johnston Group to add to its pool of private fundraising. “As a proud Manitoba company, Johnston Group supports initiatives that make
ACC student Carter Baranyk is putting the bison sector in the spotlight.
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ACC project to spread the word on bison

The final products will highlight the ruminants’ ecological role, history and production in Manitoba

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Carter Baranyk has always been fascinated by bison, so when the time came to choose a capstone project for his land and water management diploma at Assiniboine Community College, he knew his topic. “I thought they were really cool animals,” he said, recalling childhood trips to the Manitoba Museum (formerly the Manitoba Museum of Man
A new grant promises to connect academic knowledge with commercial application.
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Grant gives innovation at ACC a leg up

Assiniboine Community College provides funds to spur new directions in agriculture

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Assiniboine Community College is leveraging a $50,000 National Research Council grant to spur agricultural innovation in small-to-medium-sized enterprises, or SMEs. The college is divvying up the funds among various Canadian businesses to provide short-term scientific or technical assistance. “We want to try and get about 10 SMEs to come and work on small research projects,” said Chris
A handful of soil health projects have secured funding for the next five years in the hope of kick-starting soil health practices in the field.
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College’s net positive network reels in funding

The project will receive almost $1.7 million over the next five years

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A new project pushing soil management hopes to throw like-minded farmers a collective lifeline. Assiniboine Community College (ACC) — along with Farm Management Canada, the Manitoba Association of Watersheds, Manitoba Forage and Grassland Association, Manitoba Pulse and Soybean Growers, and Minto-area Rourke Farms — will spend the next five years building a peer-to-peer network with an eye to improving

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