Today is your last chance to check out Canada’s largest indoor farm show.
MLA Brad Michaleski says one of the highlights for him at Manitoba Ag Days is seeing the new farm equipment, seeing what’s out there for new seed varieties and chemical varieties.
MP Robert Sopuck was at the show on Tuesday and says it’s apparent that agriculture is alive and well in Manitoba. “It’s mid-winter, it’s been a cold spell, it’s a great chance to see old friends, make new friends, see the latest trends in farm machinery. As the Premier said this is Disney World for farmers. It’s just a great mid-January break for all of us.”
MLA Rick Wowchuk shares why Ag Days shouldn’t be missed. “The displays, the technology, and the fellowship that you see here is overwhelming. Our agricultural industry puts so much into our province. It’s really kind of awesome to see all the people here.”
The three-day show ends at 5 pm this afternoon at the Keystone Centre in Brandon.
Awards were given out yesterday
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.
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.
The winner of the 2018 Best New Products is 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 winner is Northern Strands. Northern StrandsGrain 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.
