Built On Agriculture

We know that we will not grow more farmland so we need to find ways to increase our productivity to feed the hungry world by getting more produce from current farms, which is coming to us. [Drum, guitar, and melodica play in bright rhythm] [Woman credited] And ... Lord Selkirk's members pose a great threat to the clan of the Highlands in the Red River area. Through determination and agricultural studies, the Settlers were able to succeed beyond their expectations. But as time has changed, so have the challenges, now that farmers are facing many obstacles to continue feeding the world.

For more than 3 years, agriculture has been fundamental to the development of colonization in Manitoba. On the arrival of the Selkirk settlements, he established the first agricultural settlement in Manitoba by the Europeans. And since that time, this province has flourished. It is an important part of our history and an important part of our future development as a province. People are migrating from farms, to cities and to cities, and the world's population has now crossed the threshold where most of the world's population is now.

There are fewer and fewer people in the fields, more and more people are eating in the city, and I think this trend is likely to continue. In my opinion, the big driver of the agricultural sector is now behind the billion people on the planet and we are on the billion. They are estimated to be around 20950. Some experts believe that the world supply-demand curve will remain strong for the foreseeable future.

Higher space rates will be a challenge for the next generation of farmers. If I were to start a farm today, I would usually start with a relative. In a sense, you are trading a lack of money for sweat equity. And that's how I started with my dad. I didn't even have a penny, it was my dad's money that we stuck to this farm. The cost of space has increased very quickly. We often see it as a slight increase in grain prices. There are some young people who may find that they have discovered cropland and have slowly made their way and enter it, but it is a big challenge now. As we see more and more young people migrating to the city for jobs, parents and other families are demanding more profits and more produce than ever before.

The future is endless. These businesses are highly sought after by skilled people and by a large scale, enthusiasm for product farming, who feel comfortable in such an environment, and increasingly sophisticated customers. But this is a global business. On the other hand, it is all about global production agriculture and human food consumption. In just over a decade, agricultural engineers have invented new and innovative methods of farming. With this advancement of technology, farmers have seen the size of their equipment and the field grow beyond what they believe is possible.

Now that the devices have computer technology and wireless telecommunications, satellite technology, we have now started providing services where we are now remotely monitoring the devices. In some cases, we know when a piece of equipment will break down before the farm manager knows it. People I know, my friends, who are heavy farmers in this part of Manitoba, don't let that machine dry, they are on their iPads and their cell phones, and they investigate what is going on in the crop-related world, and their application technology is phenomenal, and they do it. How it applies to their agricultural work.

Technology has really started to take off as we expand. We're discovering new things, especially with new mobile phones. It's really helping us to keep recording and doing things on our field, which is really a multiplier.

I keep track of everything going on in the phone. Here we have a program called Farm at Hand. One of the technologies developed with the size of a large technology is precision farming, which gives farmers the opportunity to calculate different rates of fertilizer in different areas of the field and look at different rates of pesticides applied. Different areas of the field for measuring crop growth. Some of these precision agricultural technologies have enabled large-scale farming to still be done on a site-specific basis. Everything we do on the farm, from the inputs to the farm, removes everything, the income, the container we are keeping, the humidity, everything must be kept in mind by a farmer.We began to look at integrated work activities last year, and as we extract that data, how operators' performance has changed or how they differ in the same field and why. GPS is the biggest win in the agricultural sector. Most of them we use in our fields are for guidance. And if we have a tractor without GPS, I don't know if I have an operator for it.

If you count everything, you now have good knowledge, and so what you need to do is make sure you max out every piece of equipment in the field. It's showing our humidity here, our average humidity, instant bushels per acre, so we'll get to about 70. Sometimes you get to the point where you program the piece of equipment. Doing a task in the field and it will get the job done and work itself. If you start to move to more autonomous equipment, where you don't need an operator in that piece of equipment, you can run away with smaller equipment, but if many of them are in the field? I could see it coming in the future.

 Meteorologists around the world have found that farmers have encountered environmental problems that can cause serious problems for the future of agriculture. You get the weather for a short period of time. The weather is what you expect it to be for the long haul. So climate change suggests that what you expect is changing. Climate change is one thing that is affecting us more and more and I know that in my younger years I have seen a lot of change in our seasons and weather conditions. If this persists, we do not know whether it will be a continuous high water problem, meaning we will have a permanent flood or water shortage. Risk is my first concern for prairie.

When we look at what climate models are saying about the coming decades, our number 1 concern is water, not much water, but not enough water. Droughts and wet periods, or floods, are a normal part of our climate, and they always will be, but for me, the climate model suggests that if it is dry, summer just won't get hot. Summer calls me a drought. It is almost inevitable that, no matter where we travel in the developing world, when we talk to farmers, they will say something like this for their father, for hundreds and hundreds of years, and for grandparents and grandparents, they always knew that it was a rain. The deadline has arrived, and now they say the rain will no longer come.

Water scarcity is our number 1 limited source, and getting double the crop per drop is what they say we need to do worldwide to give the world a better future. What we are going to do is use research and technology to help increase productivity and profitability for farmers. I am surveying and installing tile drainage. From that we are hoping to store the water coming from the field, see what happens to phosphorus. We will multiply it and then hope to replenish the water in our fields with phosphorus through irrigation and nitrates. But is a properly installed tile going to help with dry or wet years? We don't really remove moisture that will get too dry in the field, we are just taking out the water that will really damage the development of crops. So having all this water can be a tremendous asset. In North America, 20% of the pure water usually flows through Manitoba. So this is a real masterpiece in the hole.

If we can capitalize some of our water storage at the wrong time and then use it during the growing season, we can be a really powerful player in the world's food production. The growing season is about a month longer than the 0000 season, and that's a good change. The data clearly shows that this will continue, so that maybe 40 years or more you have another month to add to that cold season.

 The agronomist will tell you that one consequence of this is that you have been allowed to cultivate your crop in the past, but it also means that the maturity dates of your crops are also changing and may not necessarily be in line with the patterns of rainfall we have come to. Researchers have discovered that foods yield more per acre, even under extreme conditions, through genetic changes. When it comes to genetically-modified foods, it's a double-edged sword. On the one hand, there is a changing climate, almost undoubtedly now, either due to drought, but also with temperature differences, which means that it is difficult for producers, farmers, to get continuous production. By modifying the genetics around the plantThey made them stronger, more rigorous, but of course, there are other shortcomings in the process and one has to be very careful. When we begin to look at the types of hazards associated with this technology, they are often dropped into two enclosures. There is a science-based risk, there is a risk in the field, but there is also a social, cultural, and economic risk that we are not talking about when it comes to risk assessment of these technologies. Do the same plants in the field work like regular plants? And often they do, they look alike, they work like plants, but the trick with this is that they are genetically different. And we've only recently begun to understand the full complexity of what a genome can do, and so when you insert a gene into a new genetic context, we don't really understand its full impact.

In my opinion history has proved that GM crops are now grown in North America and it has been 17 years and no adverse effect. So this technology is safe, so if people are worried about it, I think we've got a really good track record and a strong regulatory system to make sure those products are safe before they even come on the market. We grow GM crops have helped us to get more produce, they have helped us cope with some diseases and they have helped us cultivate these crops and succeed as a small business. If we had not improved nature and agriculture 50 to 100 years ago, we would not have been on the prairie too, so everything is improved somewhat.

Genetic modification is the practical application of science on agriculture. We accept science and we accept innovation and we accept biotechnology in every aspect of our lives, why should we not accept it in agriculture, and why can't we give it the same benefits to farmers and food products? Good food I think this technology is very interesting. I think its proper promise has been used for the future of society, that if we are compromising the genetic structure of life, the greater public sector can offer. It cannot be for profit.

If you do this, it can help people with health problems, thus increasing their food intake, allowing you to get away from some of the environmental issues you may be facing. These are complimentary reasons for using technology. Technology is neither good nor bad, this is how to use it. I'm afraid that will not give consumers the freedom to be able to access those tools, and the innovative things that can change them. Right? So I would argue that farmers need more choices, more options, yes, they need to be regulated, yes they need to prove to be safe, but we need innovation to make progress. There are people who think that our grandparents should go back to how to farm. This is a good approach, but it will not feed 9 billion people.

 The advancement of food science has led to the production of more food on less land. Researchers are now exploring ways to make food more nutritious. According to the scientific study of personal diets, these scientists have discovered useful ingredients for personal nutrition. I think we all know that food is lacking, we really have to worry about it in the future and we want this food to be nutritious, nutrient intensive, and think about how it will affect people around the world. We have a significant investment in the kind of food that people want to eat, are now a major replacement for healthy foods, and one of the best research organizations in the world.

 Appear to be moving towards higher yields and higher health benefits. We are seeing this stuff from groups. They really want to see the benefits to human health. Nutraceuticals and functional substances are, in fact, down the road, the subject of further evolution, and taking these substances and putting them into food, and protecting against age and some of the ailments and consequences that we can get down the road. , We can do a great service for consumers, for health, for governments.

 There is plenty of snake oil, the biggest problem of this industry is that there are many products that claim health benefits and there is no hard scientific evidence to back it up. So much scientific data is now available, depending on how you get to the supermarket, which can actually affect your body's metabolic state and, therefore, the risk of certain malignant illnesses. As a research scientist, I, as Canadians, always worry about consumers, the pressures on our health systems, the need to reach all the people who need to benefit from all this science. The advantage of this field researcherWe have a really good grip on how the various ingredients found in these products, ranging from farm to crop, can make us healthy and improve the well-being of Canadians overall.

 The Canadian International Grain Institute, otherwise known as CIGI, is teaching farmers about what they use for crops all over the world. By promoting this knowledge, farmers can continue to provide high quality food to the country. Eh? Today we are doing our event here with 25 beautiful senior farmers from all over western Canada, helping them understand how the grain they produce is used by their customers around the world. So this is our pasta and extrusion plant and our main focus here is durum wheat.

 CIGI has a key role to play in enhancing the global market knowledge we receive, ensuring that our customers or potential customers for Canadian farm crops understand that we are growing some of the best, safest. , The healthiest food in the world. These provincial food development centers are critical for marketing innovative goods.

As the world's population grows, the distribution of food will become important. I don't want to be the one, the one who decides who wants to eat and who can't eat. It's a very difficult concept for North Americans to understand because you have never been hungry. This is not always the case for other people. Foodgrains Bank started in the mid-70s. It started because there was a famine and food shortages in Asia and Africa, but there was food balance here in North America, especially in Canada. You really need to think seriously about what is good for what you do not have and what you want, but also for those who have the same access and luxury as you. The Canadian government is the most stable and generous fundraiser for food assistance in the world. Every year, the government has shown a commitment to ensure that money is available to help humanity, to ensure that people around the world get food.

 We must always be anxious to feed the world. The population is over 7 billion and still growing. Although there has been a huge increase in crop productivity and expansion around the world, explaining climate change, it is worrying what they can do to benefit the world's population. So we are trying to find out how you can produce more food on the same land or less land to meet the demands of the growing world. And honestly, we don't suffer from food shortages here, but if you look at the developing world with the fastest-growing area of ​​biotech crop production, the difference between life and death and your family's nurturing or being able to send your child to school. We, of course, want to see that everyone in the world has enough food to eat, and we want everyone in the world to have access to all the food we need to live a healthy and active life.

 Lord Selkirk would be proud to justify his agricultural experiment on the northern Great Plains. Assisted by education and technology, today's farmers face the challenge of providing for us and the world. They were told that this is a land of ice and snow, this is a fur country and you cannot do farming here, it is not possible.

 The land you own and that alone can be yours and yours and it's free and it's free to you. If you work hard, no one will take it from you.

 Thomas Earl, Earl of Selkirk, was an idealist and philanthropist, and his legacy was enormous, and this fate forced the Red River settlement to use charter ships, which sailed early Winnipeg. There were huge, huge challenges ahead and they would have starved without the support of Chief Peguis and his people. Respect for land and property was really important to the Selkirk settlement in terms of ownership, and why is he so determined to deal with all these difficulties?

The CPR building, by any number, started settlement in any continent. Sir John A. McDonald's goal was to keep the country together. It is said that if men were leaders, women would become settlers. That's where they built a house, and they used to do this all the time while caring for their children and building them. Winnipeg was the gateway to western Canada, and was the headquarters of agribusiness in western Canada, especially grain trade.About 90% of the grain in Canada is provided to cooperatives. No more colleagues today. In my personal opinion, the wheat board was a perfect tool. I didn't have to wake up in the morning and say, hey, where's the market today? I hate the idea that a farmer can't sell his property.

There is an old saying of risk management that if you do not manage your risk, they can better manage you. The climate is the biggest factor in how well the field is produced and I cannot control it. If you can't control the biggest influencer, it's a tough game.

 I love agriculture. This is something that I wake up thinking about daily, which is something I spend my time researching, to cultivate seeds or to make sure they are growing. And look at what we did at the beginning of the year and finally see how its output grows and we are there every step of the way. Can't always count on the financial rewards you have to carry, so sometimes you need passion, you just need a simple grit to go through some difficult times. If we have a tractor without GPS, I don't know if I have an operator for it.

 There are people who think that our grandparents should go back to how to farm. This is a good approach, but it will not feed 9 billion people.

 Food is the basic form of food, which means you have what you need so you can pursue the life you dream of, or you can hope for your children.