Ag Transportation Issues Discussed In Winnipeg

Nov 04, 2019

The annual Fields on Wheels Conference was held Friday in Winnipeg.

The event, which focuses on transportation issues in the agriculture industry, has been running for 24 years. It is put on by the University of Manitoba's Transport Institute.

Dr. Barry Prentice is the organizer for the event.

"Twenty-four years ago, nobody was talking very much about processing anything," he said. "We've got a change in focus I think in terms of our agriculture and a change in focus in terms of creating more jobs and tax revenues to pay for everything else...One thing we do see that's constant is, the issues of logistics in transport never go away."

The focus this year was logistics and value-added processing of field crops: the veggie burger revolution.

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Video: A chain harrow is a game changer

Utilizing a rotational grazing method on our farmstead with our sheep helps to let the pasture/paddocks rest. We also just invested in a chain harrow to allow us to drag the paddocks our sheep just left to break up and spread their manure around, dethatch thicker grass areas, and to rough up bare dirt areas to all for a better seed to soil contact if we overseed that paddock. This was our first time really using the chain harrow besides initially testing it out. We are very impressed with the work it did and how and area that was majority dirt, could be roughed up before reseeding.

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