Protein Industries Canada Continues Its Focus On Manitoba

Feb 01, 2021

Protein Industries Canada announced 13 technology projects last year.

"We've had great support from our members in Manitoba," said CEO Bill Greuel. "A significant amount of the investments we've made have been in that province. We've got four projects, total investment of $116 million and it really spans the value chain. We've got work going on in processing and a lot of work going on in the digital ag space too."

The Manitoba-based projects are expected to create 570 new jobs, 18 new products and 10 new patents, while 75 per cent of them will reduce environmental impact.

Greuel says 2021 will see major projects advance including as Merit and Roquette. He says on the digital side they continue to work with Farmers Edge.

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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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