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The Winnipeg Free Press is heading beyond the Perimeter in 2020 to look at modern farm life and the province’s next generation of food producers.

Reporter Eva Wasney and photojournalist Mike Deal are following three sets of young farmers through the inevitable ups and downs of this year’s growing season.

Find the stories in the series below.

 

Young producers follow in generational footsteps, but determined to set their own path

MIKE DEAL / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS Graham Tapley, joined in the tractor cab with his son Walker, 2, cuts hay for the cattle.

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Farming is a family business for many Manitoban producers. Opportunities to farm are usually inherited, methods are passed down (and inevitably tweaked) and multiple generations are often found working and living together on a shared slice of land.

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Farm-fresh fears: climate intangibles fertilized with stress of global pandemic

Penner grows canola, wheat, oats, soybeans, corn, ryegrass and alfalfa on 4,000 acres near Elm Creek with his dad and younger brother. (Mike Deal / Winnipeg Free Press)

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Leave Winnipeg in any direction and you’ll quickly find yourself coasting down a flat highway surrounded by a wide expanse of farmer’s fields. It’s hard to grasp the scope from the road, but a quilt of cropland covers nearly all of southern Manitoba with urban centres poking occasional holes in the arable fabric.

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Manitoba farming couples ponder their futures

MIKE DEAL / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS Cows gather for a drink from a water well on one of the pastures. All in a day

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Fields that were lush and green have been reduced to brown stubble and black dirt. Fall is the end of the year for many Manitoba farmers and a season defined by hard work and high yields.

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