Manitoba Beef Producers 43rd AGM Going Virtual This Thursday

Feb 08, 2022

Manitoba Beef Producers is hosting its 43rd Annual General Meeting online on Thursday, February 10.

General Manager Carson Callum gave a rundown of the day.

"The plan will be mid-morning, start with some knowledge sessions. This one will be focusing on Business Risk Management tools that are available, both provincially and federally. There will be a market update, and then we'll probably have some information on some of the AgriRecovery changes announced and then in the afternoon, we'll get into our usual business component, the updates from myself, President's, financial report, go over the resolutions that we have in, as well as some by-law changes. To round out the day, we're going to be hearing an update from the National Cattle Feeders Association."

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Video: Learning to Wrench From Dad the Hard Way

Harvest is a week out and the farm picked this week to fall apart. The truck needs a battery, the barn curtain's got a problem, and the corn and beans are telling us we're out of time to get it all fixed.

So it's a full day of wrenching. Tork supervises while I get the truck back running, then we're out at the hog barn where one rusted up part has the whole curtain system hung up. Ladder work, cable work, and a little dad-and-son disagreement about the right way to do it. We close it out walking the fields, shelling beans and checking corn, because whether everything's fixed or not, harvest starts when harvest starts.

Chapters: 00:00 Everything breaks the week before harvest 01:00 Tork supervises while I fix the truck 12:30 Out to the barn to find the curtain problem 14:30 One rusty part hung up the whole curtain 20:00 Running the curtain cable from the ladder 24:00 Walking the beans and corn before harvest 26:30 Wrapping up

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