WINNIPEG – Whether you’re a producer, food processor or supplier, understanding category management is crucial to the value chain process. Learn the ins and outs of this retailing concept at a Value Chain Manitoba Initiative (VCMI) workshop on Feb. 18 from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. ...
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WINNIPEG - Kristin Yaworski-Lowdon returns to the Manitoba Rural Adaptation Council (MRAC) as a part-time program coordinator after a one-year maternity leave. Prior to going on maternity leave, Yaworski-Lowdon was the MRAC value chain coordinator. Eugene Warwaruk remains in that position....
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The 2009 Ag in the City event, held from March 20 to 22, included a video which ran continuously on a big screen TV at the Forks Market in Winnipeg. MRAC was asked to feature one of our successful projects in the video.
This video has been posted on the Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (...
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The agriculture industry is constantly changing and innovators are needed to seek solutions and move the sector forward. Join us at our 2010 AGM as we explore how MRAC can develop pathways to the future.
Keynote Speaker: John Oliver
John Oliver is president of Maple Leaf Bio-Concepts and Lojon...
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BrettYoung Seeds Ltd. is building better crops with its new biological agriculture products. Research and development on the BioBoost line of seed inoculants began eight years ago, however it was only in 2007 that the Canadian company applied to the Manitoba Rural Adaptation Council (MRAC) for...
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A Pinawa, Man. company is hoping its new optical technology will have a significant impact on the wheat industry’s fight against fusarium.
Spectrum Scientific began researching the plant-infecting fungal disease approximately eight years ago and in 2007 applied to the Manitoba Rural...
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Derek Brewin has come full circle. As he sat around the table at the inaugural Manitoba Rural Adaptation Council meeting in 1996, Brewin had no idea that 12 years later he would join the MRAC board of directors.
“I knew about MRAC as a new way to deliver programs and I thought it was a good...
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The VCMI team had a busy fall with numerous presentations made, workshops organized and delivered, and events attended.
Here is a list of activities: presented at a meeting of Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives (MAFRI) Extension Coordinators (Oct. 6), organized and delivered...
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The Manitoba Rural Adaptation Council's website has received a much needed facelift. MRAC recently launched its new website, which can be found at the same web address, www.mrac.ca.
Learn more about MRAC’s strategic priorities, discover who's on the MRAC board of directors, search the MRAC news...
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Manitoba Rural Adaptation Council executive director Ted Eastley has been awarded the Canadian Society of Association Executives (CSAE) 2009 National Conference Scholarship, sponsored by Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide Inc. Eastley will be recognized at the CSAE National Conference in Toronto...
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