Editor’s Take: Coming together

Editor’s Take: Coming together

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.”

Things to know when visiting Ag Days

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

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.

Expanded speaking slate announced for Ag Days

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

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

‘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

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.

Ag Days Innovation Showcase highlights bright ideas

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

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.

Health and wellness front and centre at Manitoba Ag Days 2023

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

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

Welcome back – again – to Manitoba Ag Days

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

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.

Manitoba Ag Days Gives Back deadline approaching

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

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)

Saskatchewan, Ontario ban birds at events

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

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.

Visitors walk the grounds at Ag in Motion on July 19, 2022 after taking cover from a rain shower. (Liam O’Connor photo)

Glacier FarmMedia acquires Ag in Motion property

Show site's investors honoured as 2022 event begins

The investors who helped secure the land that now hosts the annual Ag in Motion outdoor farm show have been given a gift that keeps on giving. At a presentation on Tuesday, the first day of the show’s 2022 in-person edition, Glacier FarmMedia — which owns the event along with this website and other farm