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‘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
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Ag Days cancelled for 2022

With no guarantee public health measures will be relaxed, organizers say they made a difficult decision

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Manitoba Ag Days has officially been cancelled for 2022. The event had been scheduled for Jan. 18 to 20, until it was derailed by Manitoba public health orders issued Dec. 27 that would have capped attendance at 250. In a Dec. 28 announcement organizers postponed the event until an undetermined later date. Now organizers say
A past crowd at Manitoba Ag Days inside the Keystone Centre in Brandon, Man. Photo: Sandy Black/Manitoba Co-operator

Manitoba Ag Days postponed on COVID protocols

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The 2022 edition of Manitoba Ag Days will not proceed next month as originally planned. Ag Days’ management team and directors have postponed the event – now to be determined at a later date – originally scheduled for January 18-20, 2022, in Brandon, Man., based on new COVID-19 public health orders issued by the Manitoba
A scene from the show floor at Ag Days 2020.
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Manitoba Ag Days to charge admission

The previously free show will now have a ticket cost to get in the door

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Anyone wanting to get into Manitoba Ag Days 2022 will have to pay for the privilege. Canada’s largest indoor farm show will be charging visitors admission for the first time, the organization confirmed on Twitter Nov. 11. Advance tickets are set at $15 per day, while visitors at the door can expect a $20 charge.
Students at the Keystone Centre doing the “Ag Hunt” portion of the Manitoba Ag Days Adventure in January 2020.
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Ag in the Classroom to pilot virtual Ag Days Adventure

Virtual game, videos and other e-learning activities supplement cancelled in-person event

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Agriculture in the Classroom’s new virtual learning program will allow more students to learn about food production around the world and their place in it, the organization says. The organization will pilot the virtual Manitoba Ag Days Adventure, which will replace this year’s cancelled, in-person event. “It’s not only going to be schools that are
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Editor’s Take: The winter of our discontent

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Ordinarily at this time of year my colleagues and I would be headed west to Brandon, for the annual Manitoba Ag Days at the Keystone Centre. The first time I ever attended — being a transplanted Saskatchewanian — was more than 20 years ago, as a young reporter under the tutelage of my editors and

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