First farmers of Manitoba honoured in new exhibit

First farmers of Manitoba honoured in new exhibit

Teaching about Indigenous agriculture, trade networks and agronomic practices thousands of years before European settlement

Display at Threshermen’s Reunion and Stampede taught about Indigenous agriculture, trade networks and agronomic practices thousands of years before European settlement.

Terry Lerat at Indigenous Producers Panel, AIM 2024. Photo: Ed White

First Nations should demand at-market lease rates: Lerat

First Nations need to stop leasing out their land to non-Indigenous farmers for below-market prices, says farmer and band councillor Terry Lerat of Cowessess First Nation in south-central Saskatchewan. Instead, bands should be getting every penny they can for the farmland they own and using that money to get themselves back into farming.