Manitoba Ag Days Wraps Up 2021 Innovation Showcase

Jan 27, 2021

Manitoba Ag Days has announced the winners of the Innovation Showcase.

The Grand Prize Champion was Adaptive Agricultural Solutions out of Saskatchewan for the BinStick. Binstick is an electronic and mobile ready, rigid, modular, expandable and portable grain bin probe that contains temperature and humidity sensors for improved grain bin monitoring and grain drying. The company is taking home over $17,000 in cash and prizes.

Bar C Innovations out of Kansas won the Farmer’s Choice Grand Prize for the Quick Pin Hitch Pin. The Quick-Pin is a new, innovative and redesigned hitch pin making for faster, easier unhooking of implements. It can be used with balers (or other implements) in case of fire, gravity wagons, anhydrous tanks, and unhooking with one man operations. The company is taking home over $12,000 in cash and prizes.

There were 44 entries this year in the 7 categories of the Innovation Showcase.

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Video: What Happens When Pigs Adapt to High Soybean Meal Diets? - Gustavo Lima

In this special rerun episode of The Swine Nutrition Blackbelt Podcast, Gustavo Lima, PhD candidate in Animal Science at Iowa State University, discusses how grow-finish pigs respond to high soybean meal diets. He explains the initial drop in feed intake, changes in backfat, later adaptation, energy efficiency, amino acid utilization, and the rise in nitrogen excretion at higher inclusion levels. Listen now on all major platforms!

Click here to read the full research article: https://academic.oup.com/jas/article/...

“Once they got adapted to the diet, they can handle higher levels of inclusion of soybean meal.”

Meet the guest: Gustavo Lima / gustavo-lima-a9867127 is a PhD candidate in Animal Science at Iowa State University whose work focuses on swine nutrition, ingredient characterization, energy metabolism, caloric efficiency, and applied data analysis. With more than 15 years of experience in swine production across Latin America, Gustavo also brings expertise in environmental control, performance evaluation, barn ventilation, and grow-finish housing. Learn more from Gustavo Lima on The Swine Nutrition Blackbelt Podcast, available on all major platforms.