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17 stories exploring agriculture across the city.
From co-operative grain elevators to high-speed fiber, Brandon and the Westman region have reinvented commerce through local ingenuity, research partnerships, and community finance—reshaping livelihoods and preparing towns for a changing economy.
Across Brandon and the Westman region, farmers, researchers and startups are adopting precision tools, regenerative practices and community-led trials, reshaping production and livelihoods to endure climate variability while sustaining rural identity.
A century of rail lines, grain elevators, and university classrooms reshaped Westman. This retrospective traces Brandon's evolution from railway outpost to regional centre, highlighting human stories, Indigenous history, economic shifts, and a forward-looking sustainability agenda.
In Westman, farmers are combining sensors, cover crops and community data to boost yields, repair soil and keep young people rooted. This story traces the practices, personalities, and pragmatic optimism reshaping agriculture near Brandon.
A community-led agtech initiative near Brandon is marrying tradition and technology—sensors, cover-crop trials, and youth apprenticeships—to improve soil health, lower costs, and keep young people working on the land.
A historical look at how innovation in Westman agriculture — from research stations to farmer-led practices — transformed Brandon's landscape, economy and community life, and what it means for a changing climate.
At the Brandon Innovation Field Day, sensors, drones and community grit converged. Farmers and students showed how precision tools reshape work, yield, and relationships—offering practical responses to climate, markets and rural decline.
Across Westman, farmers are pairing soil sensors, cover crops and cooperative equipment models to confront climate stress, labour shifts and the rising cost of doing business—all while keeping community at the centre.
In Westman, grassroots experiments—from regenerative fields to community energy projects—reveal practical strategies and stubborn barriers. This investigation traces people transforming policy, soil, and riverbanks, and what their efforts mean for the region's future resilience.
At the recent Westman Ag Innovation Days, rural residents and researchers explored technologies and practices—from drone scouting to soil carbon accounting—that are changing how families steward land and imagine farming’s future in Manitoba.
In Brandon, a modest manufacturing co-op has transformed shelled barley and brewer’s grain into sustainable goods and steady employment, reshaping local supply chains while reconnecting producers, makers, and consumers across Westman’s rural towns.
A retrospective tracing Westman's agricultural innovations from seed-breeding labs in Brandon to GPS-equipped combines, showing how research, local farmers and community institutions reshaped economies and stewardship in a changing climate.
In the shadow of Brandon's grain elevators, a farmer-led innovation hub blends low-cost tech, seed-saving and youth apprenticeships to bolster soil health, diversify incomes and stitch rural knowledge into climate resilience across Westman.