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Certified Crop Advisor Credits Available at Ag Days 2024

January 5, 2024

We are proud to announce that we have been approved for 32.5 CEU credits for the sessions offered at
Ag Days 2024. Over the course of the three day show, credits will be offered in five streams:
Nutrient Management: 5.0 CEU
Soil and Water Management: 2.5 CEU
Integrated Pest Management: 5.5 CEU
Crop Management: 5.0 CEU
Professional Development: 14.5 CEU
Tuesday FCC Theatre
9:30 AM Chris Manchur and Courtney Ross – Manitoba’s Most Wanted
Integrated Pest Management 0.5 CEU
10:15 AM Dr. Amy Delaquis and Chris Holzapfel – Seeding Canola: Getting it Right
Nutrient Management 1.0 CEU
11:20 AM Dave Carey Your Farm Voice in Ottawa
Professional Development 0.5 CEU
1:00 PM Keith Brownell – Removing Emotions in Grain Marketing
Professional Development 0.5 CEU
1:45 PM David Frum – Geopolitics in Uncertain Times
Professional Development 1.0 CEU
2:50 PM Tim Hore – One of a Kind Canadian College: ACC Prairie Innovation Centre
Professional Development 0.5 CEU
3:20 PM Gerhard Greyling and Edward Brochinski – Grain markets: Today & Tomorrow
Professional Development 1.0 CEU
Tuesday MNP Theatre
9:15 AM Panel – Crop Talk – Another Year and More Questions to Answer
Integrated Pest Management 1.5 CEU
10:45 AM Dr. Breanne Tidemann – Start Strong to Stay Out of the Weeds
Integrated Pest Management 0.5 CEU
11:30 AM Anita Renwick – Reducing Your Fertilizer Footprint
Nutrient Management 0.5 CEU
2:00 PM Edith Frison and Ashley Andrews – How does Bill C-208 benefit farming operations?
Professional Development 0.5 CEU
2:30 PM Alfred Henry Lea – The Story of Tomahawk Chips
Professional Development 0.5 CEU
3:00 PM Graham Sherman – Going After the Thing You Want in Life
Professional Development 1.0 CEU
Wednesday FCC Theatre
9:30 AM Noah Bishop – Global Fertilizer Market Outlook
Professional Development 1.0 CEU
10:25 AM Dr. Derek Brewin – Grain Rail Transport: Are we on the Right Track?
Professional Development 1.0 CEU
11:20 AM David Whetter – When does Tile make Cents?
Soil and Water Management 0.5 CEU
1:00 PM Matt Yanick – Precision Farming Machinery: From Classic to Cutting-Edge
Crop Management 1.0 CEU
1:50 PM Amber Knaggs and Trevor Friesen – Refining PrecisionAgronomy
Nutrient Management 0.5 CEU
2:30 PM Matthew Johnson – Drones in Ag
Integrated Pest Management 1.0 CEU
3:30 PM Jim Carroll – AI in Ag: Transforming the World’s Oldest Profession
Professional Development 1.0 CEU
Wednesday MNP Theatre
9:30 AM Darcy Herauf – On the Farm or in the Cloud?
Professional Development 0.5 CEU
10:00 AM Drew Lerner, – Weather 2024: More Extremes Or Back To “Normal”
Crop Management 1.0 CEU
11:00 AM Panel – Social: The Ag Connection
Professional Development 1.0 CEU
1:00 PM Ben Hamm – Is There Money in Beef?
Professional Development 0.5 CEU
1:30 PM Tere Stykalo – What’s Your Succession Plan?
Professional Development 0.5 CEU
2:15 PM Duane Thompson – Bucking the Trend
Professional Development 1.0 CEU
3:15 PM Dr. Grayson Ross – A Vet’s Perspective:Calving Season Tips & Tricks
Professional Development 1.0 CEU
Thursday FCC Theatre
9:30 AM Edgar Hammersmeister – To Maximize or To Optimize
Nutrient Management 0.5 CEU
10:15 AM Dr. Don Flaten – Optimizing P Fertilizer and P Fertility Management on Your Farm
Nutrient Management 1.0 CEU
11:15 AM Tim Lang – Looking at Your Advisory Team
Professional Development 1.0 CEU
1:00 PM Panel – Does Variable Rate Technology Fit on Your Farm?
Nutrient Management 1.5 CEU
2:30 PM Scott Fairburn – A Customer-Driven Approach to Equipment
Crop Management 1.5 CEU
Thursday MNP Theatre
9:15 AM Dr. Yvonne Lawley – Crop Rotation Under the Microscope
Integrated Pest Management 1.0 CEU
10:15 AM Dr. Syama Chatterton – A Complex Tale: Root Rot of Pulses
Integrated Pest Management 1.0 CEU
11:15 AM Stephen Crittenden, Matthew Bakker and Charley Sprenger – Soil is a Busy Place. What’s Going
on Down There?
Soil and Water Management 1.0 CEU
1:00 PM Steve MacLean and Jon Temple – Leveraging Technology to Boost Your Farming Operation
Professional Development 0.5 CEU
1:30 PM Marla Riekman – The Science of Soil Salinity
Soil and Water Management 0.5 CEU
2:00 PM Aaron Hargreaves – Salinity, is Tile the Answer?
Soil and Water Management 0.5 CEU
2:30 PM Kurt Shmon – #Plant24 #Harvest25
Crop Management 0.5 CEU
3:00 PM Dr. Douglas Cattani – Forages for Salinity use, Maybe not What you Think.
Crop Management 1.0 CEU

What a speaking line up! To learn more about the program head to www.agdays.com/schedule
The 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. The speaking program will take place
throughout the three-day event in the FCC and MNP theatres. The 2024 show dates are Tuesday,
January 16 – Thursday, January 18.
For more show information and the latest updates please visit https://www.agdays.com/ or follow us on
Facebook, X, Instagram or TikTok @mbagdays.
For all media inquiries please contact:
Teresa Hildebrand – Media Coordinator at (204) 526-0574 media@agdays.com
OR
Kristen Phillips, Manitoba Ag Days General Manager at (204) 728-4137 coordinator@agdays.com

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