The farming community in Manitoba quickly focussed its efforts on growing products for national and international markets for foodstuffs. Facing competition and the need for profitablility, the francophone farmers of Manitoba embraced successive waves of modernization in agriculture. That process has been richly documented; visual images record the change from light hand tools to mechanized implements, the introduction of motor engines and, finally, the automation of many of the necessary tasks performed in growing cereal crops and raising cattle.

These important technical advances punctuate the history of agriculture in the 20th century, and directly influence the changes in the size, the products and the productivity of Manitoba farms.



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