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What is LiDAR?

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

By Gord Leathers December 21, 2021

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

By Ron Friesen December 14, 2021

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

By Dave Bedard, GFM Network News October 2, 2021

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

By Matt McIntosh May 27, 2021

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

By Matt McIntosh May 18, 2021

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

Farmit Manitoba

The great disruptor

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

By Gord Gilmour January 26, 2021

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

You need to look closely but this still from a Blue River Technology video shows “robotic nozzles” drenching a weed with a herbicide while leaving the adjacent cotton plants untouched.

Equipment, Farmit Manitoba

Farm automation just over the horizon

The earliest models are already here and the future is closer than you think

By Jennifer Blair December 2, 2020

Glacier FarmMedia – Just picture it: You’ve been watching your crop get rained on all week from your kitchen window, and it’s about time to do some crop scouting to see if you need to spray. But your farm is way ahead of you. Soil sensors have been monitoring moisture levels, and they’ve already called

Data can help farmers make better decisions, but collecting that data has to be part of a plan.

News

Making the most of ag data collection

Planning ahead and knowing what you’re trying to capture will set the stage for next season

By Don Norman November 6, 2020

Analyzing the kind of growing season they’ve had has always been an important way for farmers to continually improve their operations. This could be as simple as documenting yield data and for many farmers, that may still be all they are doing. But as we move into a more precision-based agriculture, the more data points

Farms collect a large volume of data these days and this data
is expected to grow exponentially in the near future.

Equipment, Farmit Manitoba, News, Other

Artificial intelligence plays critical role in precision agriculture

Greater adoption means creating new technology alongside farmers

By Rozita Dara November 3, 2020

Artificial intelligence (AI) applications in agriculture continue to grow, driven by the increased demands of precision farming. This growth is due to increasing demand for agriculture produce, real-time livestock monitoring, and the need for enhanced decision-making to optimize farm management. Other factors contributing to the rising interest in precision farming solutions are growing food demand and government assistance to farmers. India, for

Climate Corp. has launched a new tool within its web-based field management system.

News

FieldView getting into the zone on crop protection

Climate FieldView has expanded its scope of zone-based variable-rate mapping from seed and fertilizer to crop protection products

By Alexis Stockford September 22, 2020

Climate Corporation argues that every spray droplet should land where it’s going to do the farmer the most good, and it says new features of its Climate FieldView management system are letting producers do exactly that. The company has launched a new tool within the web-based field management system; one that allows the producer to create customized variable-rate

Daily Network News

U.S. livestock: Cattle fall back, hogs continue slide

U.S. grains: Soybeans retreat after rally, wheat holds at three-month high

Klassen: Feeder market drops sharply

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