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Attendees get a close look at some goat kids at a past show.
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Manitoba farm family nominees sought for Winter Fair

Six farm families will be honoured at Royal Manitoba Winter Fair

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The Provincial Exhibition of Manitoba and BMO are once again on the hunt for six farm families to shine the spotlight on during this year’s Royal Manitoba Winter Fair. Nominations are open for the 2023 BMO Manitoba Farm Family Awards. It will be the fifth round for the annual awards. Each year, the financial institution
Editor’s Take: Coming together
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Editor’s Take: Coming together

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It’s been an interesting few years. Since March of 2020, it seems in some ways like decades have passed. Perhaps that’s the way it goes when you’re forced to spend too much time alone at home, in your own company. But every now and then a milestone passes, and I realize the whole experience of
This year’s theme is “Farmer Health, Safety and Wellness.”
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Things to know when visiting Ag Days

The show is a paid, ticketed event though kids’ tickets are free

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Manitoba Ag Days returns to Brandon’s Keystone Centre on Tuesday, Jan. 17 after a two-year hiatus. The show is a paid, ticketed event and tickets can be purchased at www.agdays.com/tickets. Early bird tickets are $15 per day or $20 at the door. Child tickets (17 and under) are free, but still required. Three-day passes are available for
Left to right: Jon Montogomery, Mady Adamson, Ryan Boyd.
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Expanded speaking slate announced for Ag Days

71 speakers and a gamut of industry topics to take the stage at Ag Days 2023

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How do you come back from a last-minute cancellation that sidelined 31 speakers in 2022? If you ask Manitoba Ag Days program chair Stephanie Cruickshanks, you do it by exceeding that roster in 2023. Why it matters: Ag Days speakers range from geopolitical analysts and an in-depth look at fertilizer market to social media and
‘Ag Days Gives Back’ funding the future
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‘Ag Days Gives Back’ funding the future

Health, wellness and safety will be the theme of this year’s Ag Days Gives Back community grants

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Manitoba’s Ag Days is back and in person at Brandon’s Keystone Centre, and so is the show’s premiere initiative to pay back the community. Ag Days Gives Back has been an integral part of the annual Ag Days celebration and, over the last decade, has awarded thousands of dollars to programs and community groups throughout
Attendees gather and visit on the arena floor at a past Ag Days event. “I think this year is going to be a real celebration because of the two years we haven’t been able to host the show in person.” – Brad Crammond.
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Ag Days Innovation Showcase highlights bright ideas

From farm tinkerers to high-tech A.I. drones, it’s all at the show this year

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Brad Crammond lights up when he talks about the annual showcase that runs during Manitoba Ag Days at the Keystone Centre. As Ag Innovations Committee chair, he knows the showcase is a favourite attraction at Canada’s largest indoor farm show. This year it features 32 entries that can all be seen in person. “I think
From physical safety to mental health, it’s all part of farmer health and wellness, the theme of this year’s Manitoba Ag Days.
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Health and wellness front and centre at Manitoba Ag Days 2023

Organizers are focusing on encouraging farmers to care for themselves and others

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The last two years have been strange ones, as the pandemic played havoc with people’s health and tested the world’s economy. Production of goods and commodities slowed and stopped, supply chains were strained and farmers now find that inputs are scarce and expensive. Given the strain of living in strange times, the overarching theme for this year’s Ag Days Agricultural show is farmer health and wellness. “We’ve had some challenging
Welcome back – again – to Manitoba Ag Days
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Welcome back – again – to Manitoba Ag Days

Just as the show was set to go last year, COVID quashed it

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It was full steam ahead for Ag Days last January, and after a year of COVID hiatus, the board was eager to throw open the Keystone Centre doors for a huge “welcome back” celebration. But then another wave of pandemic hit, with its own set of crippling restrictions, and the show was closed for another
Manitoba Ag Days is once again giving back to students and communities.
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Manitoba Ag Days Gives Back deadline approaching

ACC students and community fire departments have until Nov. 15 to apply

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Manitoba Ag Days is reminding Assiniboine Community College (ACC) agribusiness students and community fire departments of the looming deadline to apply for the Ag Days Gives Back program. Those interested have until Nov. 15 to apply for grants and scholarships. Over the last 10 years, the farm show has given more than $347,500 for rural
Screengrab of turkeys on display at Canadian Western Agribition in Regina, from a 2017 promotional video. (CWA video screengrab via YouTube)
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Saskatchewan, Ontario ban birds at events

Bans back on as fall migratory season underway, avian flu cases stack up

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At least two provinces now have bans in place on birds being brought to fall ag fairs and other such events, as cases of highly pathogenic avian influenza pick up again in Canada’s domestic birds. Ontario — which had such a ban in place this spring — reinstated it effective Sept. 23 through to Oct.

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