Manitoba Ag Days has named 15 winners of its Innovation Showcase at the 2025 version of the event.
CropScanAg Canada won the ag technology category for its CropScan on-combine near-infrared sensing system. It generates real-time quality data for factors like moisture, protein, and oil and starch content in grain.
Runner up in the category was FrontLink’s Farm Droid. It’s a fully automatic seeding and weeding robot. Using high-precision GPS seeding, it knows the exact position of each plant, making between-the-row and even inside-the-row weeding possible.
Antara Agronomy Services won the agribusiness services category with its Antara Insights 2.0 platform. The agronomy benchmarking platform gives insights that help turn data into decisions by incorporating inputs such as field specific weather, input cost analysis and planter report cards.
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Runner up in that category was Modern Farmers, with it’s Farm Record Organizing app. It is designed to keep track of field records, equipment maintenance, grain inventory, and grain contracts all in one place on the farmer’s phone.
Case IH won the farm equipment category for its AF-11 Axial Flow combine. The machine was redesigned from the ground up from farmer input, and features industry-leading capacity, throughput and technology.
There were two runner ups in this category. Elmer’s Haulmaster bills its Haulmaster 2500 and 3000 graincarts as “…the largest grain cart North America (probably the world).” They say this massive capacity maximizes the farmer’s harvest window, and they also claim superior stability and traction’.
The second runner up was Morris Equipment for its 10 Series air car. It maximizes the number of acres a farmer can sow each day and has new features like weigh scales to ensure both the right rate and precision placement.
In the animal and livestock category the winner was MyLivestock.ca. The service manages digital manifests and opt-in programs like CCIA and PigTRACE automaged reporting, humane transport records, transfer of care documents and other documents. It includes real time notifications of livestock movement to be compliant with upcoming federal regulations.
The TestiGrip was the runner up. This tool is designed to secure testes during elastrator castration. It reduces the risk of retained testes that can lead to market losses. The Canadian-made tool is easy to use, even for a beginner.
In the farm-built solutions category, the winner was 240 Fabricating for its pipe drain. It’s a service tool used to drain oil out of the idlers and midrollers of track tractors in one easy shot, making the process more clean and versatile.
The runner up was SAIRS and its Stone Sight. This farm-built AI solution for stone mapping uses an imaging system attached to the back of an implement such as a drill tank. Image date is uploaded to the cloud for AI processing, and a navigable stone map is returned for the picker operator.
In the farm safety competition, the winner was Tri-Side Ag for its underdrill light kit. This is a magnetic package that attaches to the bottom side of the toolbar and fits any width of drill or cultivator. A seven-in connector attaches it to the tractor, and when the tractor lights turn on, so do the drill lights.
The runner up was wYconn Technologies, for its remote-controlled solar powered gate. It can be operated by a key fob from the tractor or truck cab, and can be either stationary or portable. It can be used to protect property, separate cattle and as an in-out cattle gate.
