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Program to provide free ag training for Indigenous students
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Program to provide free ag training for Indigenous students

The ACC program aims to give opportunities to students without the barrier of cost, and to help fill workforce gaps

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Assiniboine Community College (ACC) will provide a tuition-free program to train Indigenous students for jobs on farm it announced January 6. The Agriculture Equipment Operator program is a partnership with the Congress of Aboriginal Peoples (CAP). “Removing the cost of training, a significant obstacle to employment, allows students to gain the skills and knowledge required
“The momentum’s building and the support, not only in the region, but province-wide, is really starting to bear fruit.” – Tim Hore, ACC.
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ACC ag education hub $500,000 closer to breaking ground

Manitoba’s post-secondary ag training capacity is set to grow once ACC’s Prairie Innovation Centre for Sustainable Agriculture breaks ground

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The Prairie Innovation Centre for Sustainable Agriculture, touted by Assiniboine Community College (ACC) as its future hub for ag programs and applied research, is a half-million dollars closer to breaking ground. On Dec. 16, the Brandon-based college announced a $500,000 joint donation for the project, divided between the Brandon Area Community Foundation and Gord and
Poonam Singh is a faculty researcher at Assiniboine Community College.
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Researcher digging up sustainable growing medium for bedding plants

Peat is extracted from sensitive ecosystems that sequester a lot of carbon, so replacing it could have a big impact

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A Manitoba researcher is studying how to use local waste materials to make flower beds more environmentally friendly. How? By replacing peat — the fluffy, brown “dirt” in which petunias and marigolds are planted at the greenhouse. “It’s extracted from sensitive ecosystems that sequester considerable amounts of carbon and store excess precipitation,” said researcher Poonam Singh in
The Prairie Innovation Centre is expected to repurpose the Valleyview Building on ACC's North Hill campus.
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Crop Alliance commits $100,000 to Prairie Innovation Centre

ACC says centre is latest step in drive to become a national leader in a griculture education

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The Manitoba Crop Alliance (MCA) has committed $100,000 to the Collaboration Zone within Assiniboine Community College’s Prairie Innovation Centre for Sustainable Agriculture. The Collaboration Zone is touted as a spot where education and industry will meet. MCA represents five key commodities in the province: spring and winter wheat, sunflowers, corn, barley and flax. “The birth
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MCGA contributes $100,000 to Prairie Innovation Centre

The money will support an industry-education ‘Collaboration Zone’

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The Manitoba Canola Growers Association (MCGA) has committed $100,000 to sponsor an industry collaboration area, the Collaboration Zone, within Assiniboine Community College’s Prairie Innovation Centre for Sustainable Agriculture. “Working with industry is an integral piece of the vision for the centre,” said Tim Hore, dean of the School of Agriculture and Environment, in a media
Assiniboine Community College snags digital ag donation
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Assiniboine Community College snags digital ag donation

Farm Credit Canada says need for digital support for farms is growing

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Assiniboine Community College has received a $15,000 donation from Farm Credit Canada (FCC) to enhance its digital agriculture offerings. “As the agriculture industry evolves toward an increased focus on technology and precision agriculture, so comes an increased demand for digital agriculture knowledge and training,” Chris Budiwski, ACC’s chair of agriculture and environment said in a
Assiniboine Community College staff and supporters stand outside the college’s Valleyview Building, the future home of the Prairie Innovation Centre for Sustainable Agriculture.
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Agricultural programming on growth trend at Assiniboine Community College

The college hopes to open the doors on its Prairie Innovation Centre for Sustainable Agriculture by 2024

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The province will soon have a new post-secondary hub for sustainable ag, if Brandon’s Assiniboine Community College (ACC) gets its way. The college will be significantly expanding its agricultural offerings, ACC has said, a promise centred around the incoming Prairie Innovation Centre for Sustainable Agriculture, to take root on the college’s North Hill Campus. Why it matters: The Prairie Innovation
Sylvia Mitchell has been a fixture in Manitoba’s 
agriculture industry since the late 1950s.
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Sylvia Mitchell to receive honorary diploma from ACC

She moved to the farm in ’59 with no rural experience

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Assiniboine Community College will be presenting Sylvia Mitchell with an honorary diploma in agribusiness at this year’s graduation ceremony in Brandon to be held in late October. Sylvia was born and raised in Brandon, living there for 27 years before marrying Donn Mitchell. Settling on Donn’s grandparents’ homesteaded farmland north of Douglas in 1959 was
Blaine Pedersen, minister of agriculture and resource development, with ACC students at the grand opening of a new animal protein-processing training facility.
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Meat-processing training centre opens in Brandon

Food Processing Centre for Animal Proteins has held its grand opening

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Assiniboine Community College’s new Food Processing Centre for Animal Proteins is officially open for business. The facility held a grand opening last week, hosting donors who contributed to its construction. FPCAP will allow the college to provide training and experience to those interested in working in the meat-processing industry, which will help address a labour
Middle school students from across the province will learn about agriculture at Ag Days.
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Full house expected at AITC-M’s Ag Days Adventure

The event attracts Grade 7 and 8 students from throughout the province

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Once again Ag in the Classroom — Manitoba will seize the opportunity to open a few eyes to the interesting world of agriculture at Ag Days. Once again they’ll be hosting the Manitoba Ag Days Adventure for middle school students at the event in the Keystone Centre. This year’s theme, “Think Global — Act Local”

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