Project Objectives:
To disseminate information to producers and ag industry stakeholders on a variety of new and emerging topics including ways to reduce producers' dependency on outside markets for nitrogen, new capacity to expand utilization of different types of biofuels and emerging harvesting techniques to increase productivity and quality.
Project Description:
MB Ag Days is the largest indoor farm show in western Canada which provides an opportunity for the whole farm industry to come together under a single roof. Speakers supported by MRAC will present a number of topics to provide the mostly producer-based audience with information on emerging opportunities.
Performance Story:
Approximately 500 agricultural producers attended several sessions during the 2009 Manitoba Ag Days to learn more about various new and emerging issues facing the industry.
This project funded four speakers, who touched on a variety of subjects that have the potential to bring short and long term benefits to the ag sector in Manitoba.
The presentation on green manure cropping and the use of intercropping will have a long term benefit to the decreased use of conventional fertilizers in organic and conventional rotations.
Information on the production of anhydrous ammonia with the use of wind power could have long term impacts on the countryside from both environmental and economical perspectives.
The energy and costs savings of a diesel engine modified to run on wet ethanol has shown amazing potential for the emerging bio fuel industry.
And the hands on approach to straight cutting canola has been something Manitoba producers have been trying for years.
Attendees were provided with information they can use and bring back to their communities.
