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An unmanned aerial vehicle is used to check a wheat crop.

Crops

Is a drone right for your farm?

Uses can include evaluating plant stands, crop scouting and locating and counting livestock

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Along with my agribusiness class, I watched, in considerable awe, the beautiful video images of the fields and facilities of a local seed company as they were projected on the classroom screen. The soundless video showed crystal-clear footage taken from an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), also called a drone. Two decades previously, my family received
Cutaway of Plant and Roots in Dirt
Crops, News

Scientists studying how to make poorer soils perform better

The work is in response to a growing problem of the loss of prime farmland to urbanization

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As Canada steadily loses top-quality farmland to urban sprawl, Agriculture Canada scientists are studying ways to make poorer soils perform better in co-operation with foreign researchers. Brian Gray, assistant deputy minister for science and technology, told the Senate agriculture committee the work will help feed an expected global population of 9.5 billion in 2050. “We’re
(John Deere photo)
Crops

Precision ag tech’s link to broadband under study

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Crop growers in southwestern Ontario are being asked how their access to high-speed internet, or lack thereof, has helped or hindered their adoption of precision ag tools. Researchers at the University of Guelph’s Ontario Agricultural College (OAC), as part of the Regional and Rural Broadband (R2B2) project, are studying how “current and future connectivity” influences
Farmers Edge investing millions in sustainable crop production
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Farmers Edge investing millions in sustainable crop production

Sustainable Development Technology Canada is one of the investors

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Farmers Edge, the made-in-Manitoba global precision agriculture company, is investing millions of dollars in a bid to make crop production more sustainable. Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC) announced a $6.1-million investment with Famers Edge Sept. 21. Farmers Edge and a consortium of partners will contribute another $12.2 million. The money will be used to develop
Keep your data backed up in a separate location to protect theft from hackers, says the FBI.
Did you know?, News

Farmers vulnerable to ‘ransomware’

Precision agriculture makes farmers and the industry vulnerable 
to cyberattacks

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You’re all ready to start the planting season, using all your new precision agriculture tools for optimum seed, fertilizer and chemical placement. But all of a sudden all the data scrambles or disappears, and you receive an email demanding payment to get it back. Far fetched? Maybe not, says the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Arthur Bell (seen here in this sunflower field) has been variable-rate seeding corn near Boissevain for the past three seasons.
Cereals, Crops

Variable-rate seeding next step in precision farming

Seeding & Tillage Focus: Southwest corn grower reports higher yield and lower seed costs

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Boissevain-area farmer Arthur Bell recently stepped up his variable-rate game. After accumulating seven years of experience with VR fertilization, three years ago he decided VR seeding would probably work much the same way and give him similar results. The basic strategy is the same — identify the most and least productive spots in each field
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Crops

Deere buys stake in U.S. sprayer maker Hagie

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CORRECTED, March 30, 2016 — Reuters — Deere and Co. said on Tuesday it has acquired a majority stake in Hagie Manufacturing, allowing the farm equipment manufacturer to take a greater position the high-clearance sprayer market. High-clearance sprayers, which allow farmers to spray fertilizers and pesticides in-crop later in the growing season, are “a new market for
Crops, Local news

Farmers Edge partners with The Weather Company

It’s an IBM business and world’s biggest weather company

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Farmers Edge is still on a roll. The Winnipeg-based precision agriculture and data management company is partnering with The Weather Company, an IBM business and world’s largest weather firm. The official announcement was set for March 15. It comes just two months after four prestigious companies — Japanese commodities trading and investment firm Mitsui, Toronto
Leander Campbell, speaking at Crop Connect in Winnipeg.
Crops, Local news

Crop data assists in tracking crops and disease

It’s not a bird and it’s not a plane, those are satellites up 
there and farmers can access the data they produce for free


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Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada is aiming to bring satellite technology down to earth for Prairie producers. “Typically in agriculture you’re thinking biology, maybe chemistry, well this is physics in agriculture,” said Leander Campbell, speaking at the recent Crop Connect in Winnipeg. Campbell, a remote sensing specialist with the earth observation team at Agriculture Canada, said
barley field
Crops, Local news

Big data — a big topic among farmers

Assessing more information has and will lead farmers to better agronomic decisions

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Big data is big business. Two years ago Monsanto paid $1 billion for Climate Corp., a firm that specializes in digitizing and aggregating a long list of data collected from farmers’ fields. The numbers are crunched and sold to farmers so they can make better agronomic decisions and more money. It all started with yield

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