The high cost of managing the material is given as reason for banning it from this year’s Manitoba Royal Winter Fair
Anyone who beds animals at the Royal Manitoba Winter Fair this year won’t be doing it with straw. The Provincial Exhibition of Manitoba, which holds the major agro-tourism event in Brandon each year, says straw animal bedding will no longer be used at its events due to the cost of dealing with the used material. […] Read moreTag Archives Dallas Johnston
Manure management big focus at farm show
Moving all that waste out of the barns at Manitoba Ag Ex takes a lot of time and money, but it’s a job that must be done
BRANDON — Tens of thousands of times last week, cows plopped, splatted and splashed patties in the barns, hallways and rings of the Keystone Centre in Brandon. And thousands of times cattle producers, especially young ones with little family rank, shoveled and forked up the brown pies, carrying them to manure carts that would be emptied […] Read more!["[Manure is] our biggest expense, by far," Dallas Johnston, the Ag Ex show boss and long-time cattle producer from Brookdale, said in an interview in the show office. | Ed White photo](https://static.producer.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/26182810/EJW-MB-Ag-Ex-cattle-660x420.jpg)
Manure has major role at Manitoba Ag Ex
BRANDON — Tens of thousands of times this week cows will plop, splat and splash patties in the barns, hallways and rings of the Keystone Centre. And thousands of times cattle producers, especially young ones with little family rank, will shovel and fork up the brown pies, carrying them to manure carts that will be […] Read more
