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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
Is this scouting platform the future of farming? The R-Tech Rover is just a prototype for now, but the builders say it reveals great possibilities.
Farmit Manitoba

Rover shows future of farming

Manitoba manufacturer launches remote-operated platform with University of Winnipeg researchers

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R-Tech Industries of Homewood makes farm implements and, because its machines are often used by researchers, many of them come in strange shapes and sizes. They’re small, narrow, miniature versions of the big iron you usually see working the fields in production season. The smallest, strangest and narrowest of them all is the R-Tech Rover, a lightweight basic frame perched on
A Manitoba startup says blockchain is the future of the food supply chain.
Farmit Manitoba, News

The blockchain basics

A Manitoba startup is aiming to bring blockchain to the agriculture sector

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Winnipeg tech startup TheoryMesh is using blockchain technology to help agri-food companies share information and build transparency. The word “blockchain” may more readily conjure the image of cryptocurrency than of oats and pulses, but experts say blockchain’s future in food transparency and other ag application is pretty much a given. “I think we’re going to see some form of blockchain
Hackers are a growing headache for the agriculture sector.
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Cybersecurity incident takes down Iowa farm services firm

Biden administration is making these threats a high priority

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Reuters – Iowa-based farm services provider NEW Cooperative Inc. said on Sept. 20 its systems were offline to contain a “cybersecurity” incident just as the U.S. Farm Belt gears up for harvest. The co-operative operates grain storage elevators in the top U.S. corn-producing state, buys crops from farmers, sells fertilizer and other chemicals needed to
Ukko Robotics founders Daniel Badiou and Katrina Jean-Laflamme.
Faces of ag, Farmit Manitoba

Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes couple puts mechanical mettle to regenerative livestock farming

Faces of Ag: Ukko Robotics’ Rova Barn is blazing a trail towards automated pastured poultry and pigs

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One could say the origin story of the robotic Rova Barn begins with a young kid on a dairy farm who wanted to go to the beach, or on a family road trip, or just to Grandma’s for Sunday dinner. But milking needs trumped adventure. “We didn’t go on holidays when I was a kid,”
A recent survey estimated that about 60 per cent of Canadians have used QR codes at a restaurant or in a grocery store in the last month.
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Comment: The rise of the QR code

They’ve been around awhile now, but the pandemic has given them a new prominence

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QR codes have been in our lives for a very long time. Before the pandemic, we used them a few times a year on average, tops. Now, most Canadians will use a QR code almost every week, and in some cases, daily. Implications for the food industry can be significant. Once deemed a clever tool
Future Meat Technologies is already producing test products, including this cultured chicken breast.
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Cellular agriculture makes waves in protein production

Government investment, cellular food policy strategy and regulation are missing so far

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Scalable cell-based meat production is a reality now that the world’s first industrial cultured meat facility has been launched. Israel-based Future Meat Technologies (FMT) opened its plant last month and aims to have products on the market by 2022. The facility marks new market potential to compete against traditional agriculture and aquaculture sectors. Why it

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