A panel of entrepreneurs spoke at Manitoba Ag Days about building businesses in rural Manitoba.
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Businesses connect consumers with local food
A cattle ranch and a flour miller from Manitoba talk about their efforts to make local food more accessible for consumers
Program devised to help entrepreneurs
As an on-farm processor and retailer, Twin Peaks Creamery has worked with both SaskHealth and SaskMilk to establish itself. To long-timers in the dairy industry, it may be surprising that SaskMilk is open to the concept, but Art Pruim believes the organization is growing with the changes rather than challenging them. Related story: Sask. creamery […] Read more
Entrepreneurs tout products at Ag in Motion event
Glacier FarmMedia – Entrepreneurs pitched their products at Ag in Motion‘s AgTech Breakfast. Trevor Scherman, co-founder of Combine Settings, was first up to talk about his website, designed to help farmers reduce harvest losses. “Losses at harvest are astronomical,” he said during the event hosted by Startup TNT. Canola farmers lose an average of 1.3 […] Read more
Producers encouraged to work closely with ag entrepreneurs
I still remember the day my dad walked in the kitchen door carrying an enormous cardboard box, with a smile nearly as wide as the box itself. Inside was our family’s first VCR, an exciting day indeed. For my baby boomer parents, the VCR was a huge leap in technology. I was too young to […] Read more
Couple find satisfaction in getting their hands dirty
BON ACCORD, Alta. — Heather Edwards has thrown thousands of pots, but surprisingly few are collected by the Bon Accord, Alta., potter. The operator of Pottery by Heather uses the seconds not fit for sale in her family home, but doesn’t covet or collect her more ambitious pieces. “We live humbly. We drive old vehicles […] Read more
Soup fundraiser gets kittens spayed
MONTMARTRE, Sask.—Borscht for birth control is the latest business brainchild from the entrepreneurial Chittenden children. These three rural siblings, aged eight to 14, have been coming up with innovative money-making ideas for many years now, financing everything from snowmobile purchases to veterinarian bills. The latest endeavour—initiated by Maria, Grade 6, and her sister Heidi, Grade […] Read more
From zero to 5,400 acres in five years
Darryl Klassen’s fortunes have changed dramatically since he arrived in Kindersley, Sask., in 2012 to drive a semi-truck for an oilfield trucking company. Klassen had been farming with his brother in Austin, Man., but he was uncertain about his future at the farm. “The brother I was farming with, he had two young boys that […] Read more
VIDEO: Farm takes plunge to improve animal health
VIBANK, Sask. — Zeus calmly enters the enclosure that will soon have him belly-deep in room temperature water. The treadmill starts, water begins to flow in and he walks for 25 minutes. At one point, he dips his head for a drink. As his hydrotherapy treatment ends, the water level drops and the tank empties, […] Read more
Al-Katib wins
Murad Al-Katib, head of AGT Food and Ingredients, is this year’s Canadian EY Entrepreneur of the Year. AGT Foods started production in 2003, went public in 2007 and now ships to more than 120 countries around the world. Al-Katib will now compete for Canada for EY’s World Entrepreneur Of The Year award in Monte Carlo, […] Read more
Services ranged from bread to babies
Longtime business owner in Pine River, Man., offers words of wisdom to others seeking success in life and careers
PINE RIVER, Man. — Anthony Semeniuk delivered six babies in his taxi, ran a general store and cut hair. His cab service often became an ambulance for locals in medical distress and sometimes women in labour couldn’t wait to get to the hospital. “The doctor told me what to expect and from then on, I […] Read more
