Organizers of this year's Manitoba Farm Women's Conference in Brandon are encouraged by the response they received from delegates.
The conference wrapped up on Tuesday and Committee Member Angela Lovell said they were able to attract over 130 delegates.
Lovell said an increasing number of younger farm and rural women are attending the conference which is a reflection of the family farm transitioning to those next generations.
"We've had a really good cross section of age groups here," stated Lovell. "I really feel the farm women's conference is entering a new era. We have new ways to communicate, we have social media, the radio stations have been wonderful this year in helping us promote. I do think there is a great future for the conference and I think it is needed more than ever."
Lovell added the committee received some very positive feedback on the information that was presented on taking a business approach to transitioning the family farm to the next generation.
Meanwhile, she said she feels the conference continues to put together a program that keeps up with the changing times on the family farm.
"We are definitely going through the big transition phase right now and that has probably been on our agenda now for the past four or five years. I see it being on the agenda for a while. There is that transition happening with family farms and I think that definitely that is something the ladies ask us to address every year."
Lovell noted it was practicle information that delegates could take home with them and use.