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One of many speakers at Manitoba Ag Days is Graham Sherman, co-owner of the Toolshed Brewing Company, who will speak about overcoming challenges.
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Ag Days programming ensures entertainment and education

From geopolitics to your new favourite brew, it’s going to be a busy three days

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The first event of Ag Days is a textbook example of showcasing the Prairie region’s products. It’s beer tasting at the dome building on the Keystone Centre Grounds. The Monday evening event will feature numerous craft brewers who will tap kegs and provide samples of products made with the malt barley grown by farmers. “This
Manitoba Ag Days organizers say the opportunity to network is one of the biggest benefits of the show for farmers.
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Ag Days to shine spotlight on Prairies

Food, ingredients, equipment, livestock, grain and technology just a few areas in which the region excels, say show organizers

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Manitoba Ag Days is celebrating the Prairies, and specifically the products produced here, during the 2024 event slated for Brandon’s Keystone Centre Jan. 16-18. The 47th edition of the event that began as a one-day weed fair will showcase the products and technology that result from the ingenuity and industry of the agriculture sector and
Manitoba Ag Days says the decision to support safety at the Keystone Centre was an easy one to make.
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Ag Days funds safety equipment upgrade at Keystone Centre

Automatic external defibrillator replacements will enhance patron safety

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Manitoba Ag Days is providing funds for a public health upgrade at its home facility. It is buying five new automated external defibrillators (AEDs) for the Keystone Centre in Brandon, by way of the Ag Days Gives Back program. Keystone Centre management described the devices at an “absolute necessity,” in a media release announcing the
(Left to right) Rick Langille, William Aitken and Scott Hyndman of Harvest Today pose in their
Ag Days booth in January.
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VIDEO: Growing upwards

Company touts their approach for sustainable, efficient indoor food production

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Outside the walls of the Manitoba Ag Days Innovation Showcase, it was still the depths of winter. Gardens were still buried under a thick covering of snow. Planting season was still months away; the first produce of 2023 was even further. Inside the re-purposed barn in Brandon’s Keystone Centre, however, leafy greens were thriving. The
Amy Nikkel, who owns Adagio Acres with her family, speaks at Manitoba Ag Days in Brandon on Jan. 18.
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The good, bad and ugly of value-added

Farmer and miller Amy Nikkel shares considerations for on-farm food processing

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Amy Nikkel and her family took up farming, food-processing and grain milling “kind of all together,” she said. The first year, they grew a crop of gluten-free organic oats, cleaned them and tested products. The next year a flood kept them from planting oats on their Interlake farm. The third year, they grew another crop,
Organizers say the full parking lots at the Keystone Centre last week were proof the show was back with a bang.
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Organizers celebrate successful Ag Days

This year’s 50/50, which benefits local projects, saw a record pot total

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Manitoba Ag Days 2023 was a hub of positive energy, say organizers. “We are thrilled with the success of the 2023 show,” said Ag Days general manager Kristen Phillips in a Jan. 19 news release. The event ran Jan. 17-19 at Brandon’s Keystone Centre. “Agriculture is a business of handshakes and we try to create
Manitoba Agriculture staff run Ag Days attendees through the newly launched fertilizer efficiency calculator.
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VIDEO: Manitoba Agriculture launches fertilizer efficiency calculator

Field by field, how well are you optimizing fertilizer?

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Manitoba Agriculture says its new fertilizer efficiency tool will help farmers determine how much of a nutrient is doing its job and how much is wasted. Speaking at Ag Days in Brandon, Manitoba Agriculture Minister Derek Johnson said the digital tool will help producers identify places where fertilizer efficiency could be improved and money could
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

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