Manitoba Ag Days Wraps Up 2021 Innovation Showcase

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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