Man. to pick outstanding young farmers Saturday

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Manitoba’s finest young farmers will be selected this weekend in Winnipeg.

Matt and Tanya Plett of Blumenort, Andrew and Jaclyn Platt from Arborg, Mark and Cori Pawluk of Birtle and Andreas and Jamie Zinn of Springstein are competing to become Manitoba’s Outstanding Young Farmers for 2015.

The couples will speak to a panel of judges Saturday, and the winners will be selected later that day at a banquet.

The nominees will represent Manitoba at the national Outstanding Young Farmers competition, held in November in Alberta.

Jill and Myron Krahn of Carman, Man., were recognized as national winners in 2014.

For more information, visit http://www.oyfmanitoba.ca/.

About the author

Robert Arnason is a reporter with The Western Producer and Glacier Farm Media. Since 2008, he has authored nearly 5,000 articles on anything and everything related to Canadian agriculture. He didn’t grow up on a farm, but Robert spent hundreds of days on his uncle’s cattle and grain farm in Manitoba. Robert started his journalism career in Winnipeg as a freelancer, then worked as a reporter and editor at newspapers in Nipawin, Saskatchewan and Fernie, BC. Robert has a degree in civil engineering from the University of Manitoba and a diploma in LSJF – Long Suffering Jets’ Fan.