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NEWS RELEASE -For Immediate Release

Brandon, MB Wednesday October 16, 2019

Manitoba Ag Days Gives Back Deadline Approaching

Manitoba Ag Days would like to help your community project become a reality. The deadline for non- profit charitable organizations and Assiniboine Community College Agri Business students to submit applications is November 15th with grants awarded at the 2020 show in January. “The goal of the fund is to be able to share some of the show’s success with the rural communities where our patrons and exhibitors call home. We have had an excellent response over the past years and are always eager to help out everyone we can.” stated Kristen Phillips, Manitoba Ag Days General Manager. To date Manitoba Ag Days has given back over $26,000 annually to a total well over $260,000 to community organization throughout Manitoba and Saskatchewan.

If your community, hospital, emergency services or museum has a project that is looking for capital funding please apply. There are four different categories that include local community infrastructure upgrades and improvements, agriculture and heritage, safety and emergency services and agriculture youth education. For more information please visit https://www.agdays.com/community-giving-program/

The recipients of the 2019 Show include the following:

Community Improvement – Local Community Infrastructure Upgrades and Improvements

Central Community Club Inc. (Rosser, MB) $5000

Community Improvement – Agriculture and Heritage

Rapid City Museum Inc. $4000

Cypress River Agricultural Society Inc. $1000

Community Improvement – Safety and Emergency Services

RM of Whitehead Fire Department $5000

Education and Leadership – Agricultural Youth Education

Agriculture in the Classroom -Manitoba $8000

ACC Diploma Scholarship – Amber McNish $1000

U of M’s Diploma Scholarship –Megan Major $1000

U of M’s Degree Scholarship – Annabelle Calcott $1000

Manitoba Ag Days show is an annual three-day exposition of agriculture production expertise, technology and equipment that attracts exhibitors and visitors from across Canada and the United States of America held at the Keystone Centre in Brandon Manitoba January 21, 22, 23 2020.

For more information or the latest updates please visit https://www.agdays.com/ or follow us on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram @mbagdays.

For all media inquiries please contact:

Andrea Guthrie, Manitoba Ag Days Media Coordinator at (204)851-7229 media@agdays.com

Kristen Phillips, Manitoba Ag Days General Manager at (204)728-4137 coordinator@agdays.com

Please log into your exhbitor accounts to see your placements for the 2020 show!

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Manitoba Ag Days launches their NEW INNOVATON SHOWCASE!

David Laudin, Co-chairmen for Manitoba Ag Days, is proud to announce that we are making some changes for the 2020 show to better promote and enhance our industry. David explains, “We want to give all of our exhibitors’ equal opportunity to highlight their innovations and technology enhancements at our show. The Inventors’ Showcase has been a long standing feature of our show but we felt it limited our existing exhibitors to launch products at our show. So, to level the playing field we decided to eliminate the Inventors’ Showcase, New Products Feature and Farm Safety Feature categories at our show and rebrand this the Innovation Showcase.” Current, Existing and New Exhibitors will each have the opportunity to apply to enter the Innovation Showcase if they so choose and now they can pick one of 7 categories to enter. Brad Crammond, Co-chairmen for Manitoba Ag Days stated, “Innovation and Technology is at the forefront in everything that we do now a days and the Ag Industry is not legging behind. Our theme for the 2020 show is Technology and Innovation in Agriculture. We want to help launch your vision so our hashtag for this years’ show is #2020vision.”

There will be 7 categories in the Innovation Showcase with the goal of “Advancing the Field”. Manitoba Ag Days will be awarding prize money to 1st and 2nd place in each category and Glacier FarmMedia will be rewarding an advertising packages to the 1^st and 2^nd place winner in each category. *

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Agronomics Awarded to the company that has developed a new technology that improves crop production including innovation in genetics, pesticide application (non-mechanical), and the process of producing a crop.

Animal and Livestock Awarded to the company that has a new technology that assists in the health and well-being of livestock animals.

Agriculture Equipment Awarded to the company that has developed a new equipment concept or technology that assists farmers and agriculture professionals with farming application.

Agribusiness Services Awarded to the company that has developed a new technology that assists farmers and agriculture professionals with the management of their farm business and clients.

Ag Tech Awarded to the company that has developed a new concept or technology that assists farmers and agriculture professionals with farming applications.

Farm Safety Awarded to the company that has developed a new product that assists farmers and agriculture professionals with safety being of the utmost importance.

Farmer Problems Solved Awarded to the exhibitor that has developed a concept or technology that assists farmers and agriculture professionals with farming applications. We are looking for the grassroot inventions in this category. If you like to tinker in your shop, garage or yard and have created something useful and progressive, we want you to be a feature of our show.

* If a category does not have any applicants on any given year then there will be no prize money awarded to that particular category in that year.

Kristen Phillips, Manitoba Ag Days General Manager stated, “We will only be accepting a maximum of 32 entries into the Innovation Program in 2020. To participate exhibitors will need to register between Sept 3^rd and 20^th, 2019 for the 2020 show at www.agdays.com Technology is all around us and I think that farmers are the bravest, most entrepreneurial business men in the world, I am so excited to see where this program takes our industry. As Les Brown once said “Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars”.

For more information please go to our website at: https://www.agdays.com/for-exhibitors-inventors/innovation-showcase/

Manitoba Producer in Final Preps for Global Livestock Study:

Ryan Boyd ready to criss-cross world for Nuffield Scholarship on Grazing Ruminants
Brandon, Man (March 5, 2019) – Ryan Boyd is about to set out on the educational experience of a
lifetime later this week when he starts the first leg of his two-year Nuffield Scholarship study.
Along with wife Sarah and parents Jim and Joanne, Boyd runs a 3,500 acre mixed farm just north of
Forrest, Manitoba. Boyd’s globe-trotting learning journey starts Friday in Iowa, finishing up eight weeks
later in New Zealand with stops in Washington D.C., Florida, Mexico, Brazil and The Netherlands in
between as he studies Grazing Ruminants: A resilient solution to long term agriculture profitability,
productivity and climate change.
“I am a firm believer that as farmers we need to remain at the cutting edge of new techniques and
technology in the world of rapid change that we live in,” says Boyd, a well-known advocate for
Regenerative Agriculture and a MFGA board member. “We have always embraced change with open
arms on our farm and this study will allow the professional development that will be required to lead
our farm and Canadian agriculture into an exciting future. Every environment has its unique challenges,
but this will be an opportunity to learn what others are doing worldwide and bring new perspective and
new ideas home to the prairies.
The only Canadian among the group of seven scholars travelling together on the Brazil Global Focus
Program organized by Nuffield International, Boyd will be exposed to a broad spectrum of agriculture
industry before delving into the specifics of his chosen topic, Grazing Ruminants and their many benefits
to the agroecosystem including better nutrient cycling, promoting soil microbial life, enhancing the soils
ability to sequester and store carbon and use water more effectively. All of these benefits can directly
and indirectly improve farm profitability and create societal value as the natural resources that the farm
relies on become enhanced.
Boyd admits leaving the farm for first leg’s two months will be tough. He and Sarah have two young
children and as every producer knows, the farm works every day, especially with cattle. Boyd points to
the incredible support of his family and the help of others in his pursuit of becoming a Nuffield Scholar.
On that front, Boyd says, support for his study has been incredibly humbling, especially with the
program’s onus on the individual scholar to foot half the bill.
“My Nuffield Scholarship is sponsored by the Western Grains Research Foundation and that is
tremendous,” says Boyd. “The support I have received to help offset the costs of my journey from
family, friends and groups interested in my research has been overwhelming. MFGA, Manitoba Beef
Producers, Ducks Unlimited Canada, Manitoba Ag Days, Manitoba Habitat Heritage Corporation,
Northstar Seeds, The Green Spot, Shur-gro Farm Services, Wheat City Seeds, SGB Agronomics and
several other family members and friends have generously stepped up to support and a few more
potential sponsors have expressed interest I simply can’t thank everyone enough.”
One way Boyd plans to help family, friends and supporters (a full listing of Boyd’s corporate supporters
is below) keep tabs on him is to be active on social media when and where WiFi coverage allows and
time presents. Boyd will blog regularly at www.southglantonfarms.com and will post Tweets and
Instagram photos at @glantonboyd. MFGA will monitor Boyd’s travels and blogs, helping to share his
experiences across MFGA’s communications channels including MFGA Facebook, Twitter and soon-tobe-
launched revamped website.
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For More Information: Ryan Boyd, cell: (204) 724 7019, email: rboydy@yahoo.ca
Ryan Boyd 2019 Nuffield Scholarship Corporate Sponsors
Western Grains Research Foundation
Manitoba Forage and Grasslands Association
Manitoba Beef Producers
Ducks Unlimited Canada
Manitoba Ag Days
Manitoba Habitat Heritage Corporation
Shur-Gro Farm Services
The Green Spot
Northstar Seeds
Wheat City Seeds
SGB Agronomics – Steve Beaumont

A huge shout out to the kind folks up at Roblin Forest Products for their donation of the wood mulch for our 2019 Bull Congress at the Manitoba Ag Days Show. Our Bull exhibitors were very grateful for clean knees and less stressed animals. We appreciate your support.

Kristen Phillips

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