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Ag in the Classroom Accepting Nominations For Literacy Award

Agriculture in the Classroom Manitoba is now accepting nominations online for its 4th Annual Teacher Driver Award.
 
The award is handed out annually to a teacher who shows leadership in agriculture education by initiating a unique agriculture literacy project.
 
This year's winner will receive an all-expenses paid trip to Kentucky to attend the US Agriculture in the Classroom Conference.
 
The award will be given out at the group's annual general meeting held April 24th in Winnipeg. The nomination deadline is March 31st.
 

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How the corn-soy diet transformed swine nutrition

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At the 2026 ASAS Midwest Section meeting, Dr. Robert Easter, professor emeritus of swine nutrition at the University of Illinois, spoke at the U.S. Soy sponsored Swine Application Symposium, offering a historical perspective on one of the most important developments in modern pig production: the corn-soybean meal diet. What today is considered a foundational feeding strategy was not always obvious or even accepted.