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2021 Pembina Valley Watershed District Conservation Award

 
The Pembina Valley Watershed District (PVWD) in partnership with Manitoba Department of Agriculture and Resource Development is honouring McDonald Farms with the 2021 Conservation Award. 

 The Conservation Award, in memory of the late Mike Cabernel, is presented each year to recognize an individual, organization, family or business who actively promotes wise farm management and conservation practices. 

Wayne McDonald along with his wife Maria, own and operate the McDonald Farm. They are a 4th generation family farm near Cartwright. Wayne’s great-grandfather, Alexander, came over from Scotland and started raising purebred Hereford cattle as well as grain farming. Throughout the rest of the 20th century they continued in this vein with his grandfather Norman and his father Jim running the farm. In 1992,