Prairie Innovation Centre for Sustainable Agriculture

The Prairie Innovation Centre for Sustainable Agriculture is a one-of-a-kind Canadian college project that will bring together collaborative learning space, applied research labs and multipurpose spaces that will serve both the college community and agriculture industry.

The Prairie Innovation Centre is Assiniboine's vision for the future of agriculture training and a Manitoba-made response to labour market gaps in the industry.

The Centre, which aims to expand seats in agriculture-related programming from 300 to more than 800, will repurpose the historic Valleyview Building on the college's North Hill campus.

By creating an enhanced agricultural training capacity, the centre will enable the agriculture sector to reach its full potential as an economic driver in the Canadian and Manitoban economy.

Agriculture belongs at Assiniboine

• Agriculture contributed $122 billion to the Canadian economy in 2018
• That's 6.3% of Canada's gross domestic product

But the labour gap is agriculture is significant and continuing to grow.

• In 2017, there was a gap of 63,000 workers in Canada's ag sector
• This will grow to 123,000 workers by 2029

In Manitoba, the projections follow suit.

• It's projected that 5,300 agriculture jobs—that's one in five— will go unfilled by 2029.

The Prairie Innovation Centre is Assiniboine's made-in-Manitoba solution.

• 92% of grads are working nine months after graduation
• 93 % of graduates stayed in Manitoba

Prairie Innovation Centre Pillars

Ag Belongs Here: Case for Support