UFV was front and center at the 26th annual Pacific Agricultural Show, held last week at the TRADEX in Abbotsford. The trade show brought together people from every area of the agriculture industry, providing networking opportunities for UFV students and faculty. The university had a booth showcasing the work and educational offerings of the Agriculture Technology Department.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is the big agriculture event for the valley, and really the province,\u201d said Renee Prasad<\/strong>, UFV Agriculture Technology department head. \u201cIt brings together all aspects of the industry and provides an opportunity for our students to see all the different career paths that are available to them. For Agriculture Technology faculty, we bring back to our classrooms some of the new things that are happening in our subject areas.\u201d<\/p>\n This year\u2019s show included a new addition with two UFV connections. Lenore Newman<\/strong>, director of the university\u2019s Food and Agriculture Institute (FAI), was a judge for Farmer\u2019s Den, a pitch competition inspired by Dragons\u2019 Den but tailored specifically to entrepreneurs in the agribusiness sector, especially agritech. UFV student Mwenda Dyck competed in the \u201cseedlings\u201d category \u2014 for students or recent graduates with emerging agricultural companies or ideas for an agri-business. The winner received $10,000.<\/p>\n READ MORE ><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" UFV was front and center at the 26th annual Pacific Agricultural Show, held last week at the TRADEX in Abbotsford. The trade show brought together people from every area of the agriculture industry, providing networking opportunities for UFV students and faculty. The university had a booth showcasing the work and educational offerings of the Agriculture … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":150,"featured_media":12302,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[444,58],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-12301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-agriculture","category-news","tag-agriculture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/150"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12301"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12303,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12301\/revisions\/12303"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}