Ag Days: Early birds get high-level briefings

Manitoba Ag Days is where the ag year begins not just for producers, but for the many manufacturers and industry participants who attend the show. For 11 years, the Agri-Marketing Centre has provided them with business services and resources, such as the complementary Internet café, meeting lounge, export planning, sector/market profiles, and informational breakfast forums.

KAP on board with N.D. fertilizer plant project

Keystone Agricultural Producers is joining the North Dakota Corn Growers Association’s bid to build a farmer-owned nitrogen fertilizer plant. With a feasibility study already completed, and sites in eastern North Dakota being examined for the $1.5-billion plant, the project is moving towards the business-planning stages. Following consultations with commodity groups with the organization, KAP has


Agassiz Lamb Co-Op Aims To Boost Shepherds’ Fortunes

Asmall flock of longtime shepherds has hit the road to recruit members for a proposed lamb-marketing co-operative in Manitoba. Proponents of the fledgling Agassiz Lamb Co-op want to get better prices for their lambs and boost the sheep industry’s long-term fortunes in Manitoba. So far, after two of five scheduled meetings in Brandon and Souris,

More Farmers Eye Value Chain Approach

“Definitely there’s interest in various sectors.” – EUGENE WARWARUK, VALUE CHAIN INITIATIVE MANITOBA CO-ORDINATOR Alberta barley growers produce barley for Japanese Sapporo beer and Shochu liquor. The Warburtons Technical Centre in Brandon contracts with farmers to produce identity-preserved (IP) wheat. Each are examples of farmers capturing higher prices and delivering a higher-value product through participation