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Brandon, MB – Monday January 20, 2020
Manitoba Ag Days Seminar Highlights: Tuesday
It has been a year in the making and the seminar program committee has done another extraordinary job organizing the 2020 Manitoba Ag Days Program. You will want to visit www.agdays.com ahead of time to review the program agenda. Over 60 speakers will touch on an assortment of important topics for today’s farming operations throughout the three days of the show. The seminars will take place in both the MNP and FCC theatres conveniently located inside the Brandon Keystone Centre.
The FCC theatre will be conveniently located at the south end of the Westoba Place Arena. We will kick off Tuesday morning’s Manitoba Canola Growers Association Program with Agronomy Specialists with Canola Council of Canada, Angela Brackenreed and Warren Ward. Their presentation titled “Breaking YOUR Yield Barrier, Considerations for an Ambitious Yield Target” begins at 9:00 am. At 10:00 am, Justine Cornelsen and Dan Orchard, Agronomy Specialists with Canola Council of Canada, will speak about “Clubroot – The Silver Bullet….A Shotgun”. Closing out the morning program in the FCC theatre, Drew Lerner, Senior Agricultural Meteorologist with World Weather Inc. will present on the 2020 Weather: Is Drought in the Prairies Over?”
Ag Days Gives Back Award presentations will kick off the afternoon in the FCC Theater at 12:30 pm. Directly following, we will hear from Manitoba Dignitaries, The Honourable Brian Pallister, Premier of Manitoba, The Honourable Blaine Pedersen, Minister of Agriculture and Resource Development and His Worship Rick Chrest, Mayor of City of Brandon at 12:45 pm. At 2:00 pm we will have three youth speakers, Joyrn Buchanan of Crystal City, Hanna Popp of Erickson and Laruen McKee of Brookdale giving their presentation titled “Agriculture; More that Cows, Sows and Plows”. Directly following, Craig Klemmer, Principal Agricultural Economist with FCC will speak on “Trade, Dollar, and Interest Rates: What does it all mean?” At 3:00 pm, hear about “Innovative Hiring: The Value of Your Work Force” from Managing Partner of Hebert Grain Ventures, Kistjan Hebert. Closing out the afternoon, at 4:00 pm, B. Douglas Tait, Lawyer with TDS Law will deliver his presentation on “Cyber Security and Data Protection”.
The MNP theatre is located in the amphitheater next to MNP Hall across from Westoba Place Arena. Tuesday morning’s program will focus on Technology and Innovation. Starting things off at 9:00 am is Teresa Vallotton, Co-President of FarmFemmes with a presentation titled “AI in Ag is More Than What it Used to Mean”. At 9:45 am, Melissa Silvernagle, Precision Agronomy Technical Lead with AgraCity Crop & Nutrition Ltd. will speak about “Digital Scouting in Agriculture: The Future is Now”. Directly follow, Kristjan Hebert, Managing Partner of Hebert Grain Ventures will speak at 10:30 am about a “Return on Investment (How Technology has Changed our Farm and our Bottom Line)”. Closing out the morning sessions in the MNP theatre at 11:30 am learn answers to the question “We’ve Got the Data, Now What?” from our producer panel with Adam Gurr and Mark Keating.
The Tuesday afternoon’s program kicks off at 1:00 pm with a panel discussion with Tere Stykalo, Regional Ag Leader with MNP about “The 5 Key Components of Your Succession Plan”. At 1:40 join, Jason Wilner, with DOT Technology Corp, and “SeeDotRun: The Evolution to Autonomous Farming”. Directly following, at 2:40 pm, Ryan Hutchison, Crop Intelligence Business Development Lead with South Country Equipment, will present on “Trusting the Data:; Proactive use of Soil Moisture Information. At 3:30 pm, Spencer Myers, Machinery Reporter with Glacier FarmMedia & The Manitoba Co-operator will give a presentation titled “Reinventing the Wheel: Machinery – Past, Present and Future”. Wrapping up the afternoon sessions at 4:15 pm, Lionel Kaskiw, Farm Production Advisor with Manitoba Agriculture and Resource Development and Angela Brackenreed, Agronomy Specialist with Canola Council of Canada will give a summary of how “Tough Harvests Teach us Lessons”.
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