Community Improvement – Safety and Emergency Services
RM of Whitehead Fire Department $5000
Pictured L to R: David Laudin (Manitoba Ag Days) Kelly Crowson (R.M Of Whitehead Fire Department) Brad Crammond (Manitoba Ag Days)
2019
Community Improvement – Ag and Heritage
Cypress River Agricultural Society Inc. $1000
Community Improvement – Ag and Heritage
Rapid City Museum Inc. $4000
2019 Inventor’s Showcase Awards
The annual Investor’s Showcase features NEW INVENTIONS and NEW PRODUCTS that will assist in farm operations. This year’s showcase features 14 new inventions and 19 new products. “We encourage everyone to take time to stop by Barn 4 and see some of the amazing new products revolutionizing the agriculture industry. The advancements in technology are certainly going to impact our farming operations in the future, it is an exciting time in agriculture.” Said Brad Crammond, Co-Chair Manitoba Ag Days.
Manitoba Ag Day’s strives to be at the forefront of new technology and innovations. We would like to thank all of the participants in the Investor’s Showcase and New Products. Feature for their efforts in bringing these new products to the industry.
1st Place Amazone / Mid -Implements Ltd.
Amazone – Mid Plains Implements Ltd. for their SmartService 4.0 which uses the possibilities of the digital VR (virtual reality) and AR (augmented reality) technologies and digital media to for the end customer, and the customer service the learning, training and Repair processes to expand further in the area of technical customer service and to support the end customers and service technicians for maintenance and repair work. They received a banner and a cheque for $1000 from Manitoba Ag Days and an advertising package from the Manitoba Co-operator
2nd PLACE: Dave’s Welding Shop
“The Bullet” is a simple towable machine that pulls a large steel “Bullet” to depths as deep as 5′ to create underground drainage tunnels providing underground drainage in farmers’ fields. The idea is similar to tile drainage but without the use of expensive tile pipe henceforth much lower costs with much higher travel speeds. *It works in all field conditions *G.P.S |R.T.K |L.I.D.A.R| compatible
2018 Best New Products
1st Place: Copperhead Ag
The Copperhead Concave System utilizes notched bars for restricted flow. This allows more material in the concave area, increasing grain on grain threshing. As grain moves along the system, the concaves are progressively open, leading to increased unloading of grain as it’s threshed. With the Copperhead Concave System, you can thresh in any crop in any condition, have cleaner samples, decrease field time (resulting in less fuel cost), and stop rotor loss.
Farm Safety Feature
Farm Safety is of upmost importance to Manitoba Ag Days and would like to thank all of the participants in this feature for their commitments to making our farms safer.
1st Place: Northern Strands
Grain Bins are one of the most common accident locations on a farm. In 2015, there were 1,633 injuries in Saskatchewan alone from workplace falls. This is only the reported WCB number of falls, one can only imagine how high the real number of falls is…The Northern Strands Bin Safe System is a truly unique system in that there is nothing else available that has been engineered and pull tested in order to protect farmers, farm workers, and family members from a potentially life-threatening fall off of a grain bin.
This year we brought back THE BEST IN SHOW AWARD! This award is presented to an exhibitor who really showcases agriculture at the show. They must be 100% PURE FARM, have a well thought out booth plan, work with our committee and exemplify exhibitor excellence. This year the award was presented to CASE IH for their 2019 layout. They received a banner and bragging rights for the next year. Congrats!
Thursday, January 24th, 2019 brings the 3rd and final day of the Manitoba Ag Days 2019 show. The program will kick off at 9:00 am in the FCC Theatre with “Strategies for managing herbicide resistant weeds” with the Weed Specialist for Manitoba Agriculture, Tammy Jones. At 9:45 am Dennis Lange, Provincial Pulse Specialist with Manitoba Agriculture and John Buch, Americas Raw Material Manager with Roquette will review the “Past, present and future” of Manitoba field peas. At 10:15 am, David Mielke, Senior Analyst, with Oil World, will give us a presentation on “Global supply, demand and price outlook and impacts for Canada”. To wrap up the morning sessions in the FCC Theatre at 11:15 am, Lorne Grieger, Agricultural Engineer with PAMI, will speak on how to “Cut your losses at the front end”.
The MNP Theatre will get started at 9:30 am with Farm Management Specialist with Manitoba Agriculture, Roy Arnott with an update on “Organic crop production costs for 2019”. Directly following Roy at 10:00 am, an organic producer panel consisting of Stuart McMillan, producer, Legend Organic Farms, Travis Heide, producer, One Organic Farms and Jason Peters, Agronomist, Kroeker Farms will address the question “Can organic agriculture maintain its strong production values as farms get bigger?” Closing out the morning at 11:30 am, “The growing market for organic foods, trends and opportunities for producers” will be presented by Organic Specialist with Manitoba Agriculture, Dr. Laura Telford.
Thursday afternoon in the FCC Theatre will begin at 1:00 pm with Bruce Burnett, Director of Markets and Weather, MarketsFarm-Glacier Farm Media speaking on “Mother nature, the silent storm in the markets”. Directly following Bruce, Rob Paola, Meteorologist, with Rob’s Obs will speak on “What’s ahead weather wise for 2019” at 1:45 pm. At 2:30 pm, Soil Fertility Extension Specialist with Manitoba Agriculture, John Heard, will speak on “Matching soil moisture and fertilization strategies”. At 3:15 to close out the afternoon sessions in the FCC Theatre, Jeff Schoenau, Professor with the Department of Soil Science with the University of Saskatchewan will give his presentation on “To Micro or not to micro?”
At 1:00 pm in the MNP Theatre, Edith Frison, Business Advisor, Business Advisor with MNP LLP will be presenting on “How will the new tax on split income rules affect your farming operation?” At 1:30 pm, Brian Harper, Circle H Farms will speak on “How we use livestock as a tool to heal degraded land”. At 2:15 pm, “It’s all about learning and growing through networks” with Ryan Boyd, producer, South Glanton Farms Inc, Lydia Carpenter, producer, Luna Field Farm, Brooks White, producer, Borderland Agriculture and Amber McNish, student, Borderland Agriculture. To close out the show in the MNP Theatre, Steve Frey, Scientist, MFGA Aquanty Project, will speak on “How your farm management influences your community resiliency”.
That concludes the program for #agdays19. The wide range of outstanding speakers are an integral part of the success of our show. Stay tuned to see what the program committee has in store for #agdays20 program!
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Second Prize Inventor’s Showcase – The 2nd Place Winner of the Inventors Showcase was: Dave’s Welding Shop with their simple towable machine that pulls a large steel “Bullet” to depths as deep as 5′ to create underground drainage tunnels providing underground drainage in farmers’ fields. The idea is similar to Tile Drainage but without the use of expensive tile pipe henceforth much lower costs with much higher travel speeds. *It works in all field conditions *G.P.S |R.T.K |L.I.D.A.R| compatible. They received a banner and a cheque for $500 from Manitoba Ag Days and an advertising package from the Manitoba Co-operator.
L to R: Gord Gilmour (Manitoba Cooperator) Dave Hunt (Dave’s Welding) Hugh Hunt (Dave’s Welding) Brad Crammond (Manitoba Ag Days)
