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Reward farmers for digitalization, says Farmers’ Edge CEO

Digital tracking of all aspects of farm production could bring economic opportunities for farms and governments alike

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Governments should incentivize farm digitalization like they incentivize environmental farm plans, Farmers’ Edge CEO Wade Barnes told participants in the Manitoba Protein Summit. “The opportunity that comes out of it is just enormous,” he said. Barnes took part in a panel discussion on digital innovation alongside other experts in farm technology during the virtual summit
A CNH manufacturing plant at Sorocaba, west of Sao Paulo in southeastern Brazil. (Photo courtesy CNH Industrial)
Crops, Markets

CNH sees revenues rising to 2024 on precision agriculture plans

Margin at agricultural unit seen at 14.5 to 15.5 per cent

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Milan | Reuters — Italian-American vehicle maker CNH Industrial on Tuesday gave guidance for a total revenue growth of up to 24 per cent through 2024 as it presented a new business plan after spinning off its truck, bus and engine units. In a bid to focus on its higher-margin agriculture and construction machine businesses,
Ag-tech start-up Easton Robotics founder believes the use of small robots in conjunction with existing equipment is more realistic than larger, autonomous vehicles.
Farmit Manitoba, News

Supplementing – not replacing – large tractors with autonomy

There are opportunities for small robots on small grain farms

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Glacier FarmMedia – There is ample opportunity for robots on small farms — if prices can fit with lower economies of scale. That philosophy is the driving force behind Maryland-based ag-tech startup Easton Robotics. According to founder and chief executive officer Jeff Chandler, however, the idea that small farmers will replace their big tractors with autonomous vehicles, or
A LiDAR image of the Red River in Minnesota, taken by the University of Minnesota. Manitoba is now adopting this technology more broadly.
Farmit Manitoba, News

Getting the lay of the land

Laser-based mapping technology is taking the measure of Manitoba’s topography in minute detail

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We know that life on an old glacial lake bed means periodic — and sometimes spectacular — spring flooding. In future we may also see greater amounts of summer rain as the climate warms and that could mean more frequent, locally destructive floods throughout the growing season. Building local climate resilience means managing more water
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What is LiDAR?

In a way it works like a bat’s sonar range finding, but using light

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It is an abbreviation for Light Detection and Ranging, and it was developed originally right here in Canada. Hank Venema of Strategic Systems Engineering in Winnipeg says it’s a complex thing, but boiled down it involves flying an airplane over a landscape, shooting a laser at that landscape, and then measuring it when it bounces
Crops under electronic observation: The latest sensors and platforms have made digital agriculture easier than ever.
Farmit Manitoba, News

Farmers watch crops develop in real time

Digital agriculture developing enhanced tools for farm decision-making

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Digital agriculture. Precision agriculture. Smart agriculture. E-agriculture. These buzzwords currently circulating in the industry point to a new development in farming: using digital technology to collect, store and analyze data from producers’ fields in order to improve production on their farms. The process isn’t entirely new. For some time, farmers have been using hardware and software systems
A side view of Trimble’s EZ-Pilot Pro guidance system mounted on a tractor’s steering column. (Agriculture.trimble.com)
Crops, Other

Trimble dealer shores up cross-Canada coverage

Vantage Canada picks up Ontario rights

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The company handling sales and service for Trimble precision ag technology across most of Canada has reached a deal to handle the rest of it. Vantage Canada announced Friday it has bought the Trimble dealership rights and assets for Ontario from Premier Equipment, a John Deere dealership chain with nine locations in the province’s southern
Toy or tool? Drones might be cool — but what can you actually do with one on the farm?
Equipment, News

How to get drones into fields, doing useful work

The value of the tech has often been oversold, despite potential for useful applications on farms

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For some ag-tech enthusiasts both here and abroad, realizing the full potential of drones on farms and ranches requires a better overall understanding of the technology’s limitations in agricultural systems, as well as less marketing misdirection. The financial and time commitments required to accrue, process, and act on drone-derived data has been a significant barrier
Satellite imagery is one level of data that most digital crop tools use.
Farmit Manitoba

Picking the right digital tool for your farm

Have specific goals in mind – and be prepared to make new ones

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Glacier FarmMedia – There are a lot of digital farm management tools out there. Which one should you buy into? Why it matters: The number and capability of agronomic and farm business management tools is large and diverse, but they cost money. Knowing which best matches your goals and farm brings a better return on
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Farmit Manitoba

The great disruptor

Wade Barnes is straddling the digital/agriculture divide — and reimagining agronomy

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Wade Barnes says he knows what the agronomy of tomorrow looks like. It’s a proactive system that uses data to model crop development, helping farmers make decisions every step of the way. The power of data analytics will fuel every step, from what variety to plant based on soil moisture, disease and pest pressure and

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