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Tiffany Wood, a Scottish physicist is CEO of Dyneval, a company with new semen analyzing technology. Photo: John Greig

At Ag in Motion: New tester monitors bull fertility

By GFM Network News, John Greig July 22, 2023

Glacier FarmMedia – Slow-swimming bull sperm will have no place to hide. A Scottish company, Dyneval, has created a new semen analyzer that measures a wider range of concentrations of semen than previous testing methods. This will allow veterinarians, beef and dairy producers to have more control over semen quality. The Dynescanl analyzer is also

Regan Ferguson tells of her experience using data on the farm near Melfort at Ag In Motion. (Jeff Melchior photo)

Crops

At Ag in Motion: Find a purpose, then buy tech, Prairie grower says

No matter how cutting-edge, digital ag needs to be a fit on your farm

By GFM Network News, Jeff Melchior July 18, 2023

Investing in digital agriculture can be a daunting experience. A producer’s best bet, one northeastern Saskatchewan farmer says, is to do your homework and find a purpose for it on your farm. “You have got to have the root purpose of why you got that technology. Either that or you talk to others to help

The FeedFlo sensor in a hog barn setting.

Hogs, News

Funding heats things up for Manitoba ag-tech startup

Company targets precision feeding in hog barns

By Don Norman July 17, 2023

A Manitoba agricultural tech startup hopes its product will raise the bar for feed monitoring systems in hog barns. “Our sensor goes right on the feed line within the barns, as opposed to general load cells, which go on the bins, or laser systems that are at the top of the bin telling you how

Charley Sprenger of PAMI has been settling in at Brandon’s Assiniboine Community College.

News

PAMI, Assiniboine Community College join forces

The research and development group has added its presence to the Brandon college

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff July 14, 2023

The Prairie Agricultural Machinery Institute closed its doors in Portage la Prairie last year, but the ready source of agricultural research, innovation and equipment development hasn’t left Manitoba. Brandon’s Assiniboine Community College, now in the midst of a major expansion of ag and ag-related programming, has brought PAMI to its main campus. Charley Sprenger, a

Comment, Op/Ed

Comment: Beware of flash instead of substance

Self-drilling e-seeds sound exciting, but ecosystem restoration needs practical solutions

By Jorge Castro Gutiérrez, Kingsley Dixon, Simone Pedrini May 16, 2023

A drone drops a small projectile with three wooden tails, tightly twisted into a spiral, and a seed mounted on the tip. It lands on the bare ground and sits there, exposed to the elements, until it rains. Then, the moisture penetrates the wood fibres and the tails start twisting, slowly pushing the seed into

Too often, governments reach for the regulatory stick rather than providing incentives for positive action, even though the incentive-based path will lead to greater success.

Comment, Op/Ed

Comment: Go for the carrot, not the stick

Regulations not the best move for real ecological progress

By Cam Dahl May 3, 2023

There are two ways to get a horse to carry a heavy load. You can hit it with a big stick, or you can provide a reward for work well done. Think of agriculture as the horse and government sustainability goals as the load that farmers are being asked to carry. Too often, governments reach

Dr. Danny Mann speaking at a seminar on automated tractors in February at the University of Manitoba.

Equipment, Farmit Manitoba

The autonomous age will require human interface

Surprisingly ergonomics is going to be important as machinery automates

By Don Norman February 27, 2023

The era of the autonomous tractor is upon us, says Danny Mann, head of Biosystems Engineering at the University of Manitoba. However, there will be limitations. Mann says liability concerns mean that for the foreseeable future, there will have to be some level of human involvement in the technology. Mann was speaking to an audience at a University of

News

Assiniboine Community College, EMILI join forces to improve digital skills

The partnership is designed to spark high-tech skills for the future ag sector

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff February 13, 2023

Assinboine Community College and the Enterprise Machine Intelligence Learning Initiative (EMILI) are looking to boost digital skills in the ag work force. The college and industry-led non-profit will spend the next five years collaborating on projects “to advance the adoption of intelligent technologies and provide Manitobans with in-demand digital agriculture skills,” a Jan. 26 release

Farmit Manitoba

Five dollar lettuce a boon to hydroponics start-up

Manitoba inventor takes pandemic project to market

By Don Norman January 25, 2023

A Manitoba inventor has developed a homegrown solution to five-dollar lettuce. Neil Evenson is the founder of Radical Growing Company, which produces self-contained, do-it-yourself, single-plant hydroponic kits. Evenson is a design engineer by trade but he loves to tinker in his spare time, and every now and again, those tinkerings turn into a viable product

Farmit Manitoba

Rural electric vehicles: brilliant or balderdash?

Off the grid: A meme sends a Co-operator reporter on a quest to find the ‘T’ on EVs – and to get behind the wheel

By Geralyn Wichers January 23, 2023

I’ve come across multiple iterations of this Facebook meme. Several cars sit half-buried as a snowstorm rages around them. The caption reads something like, “Can you imagine an electric vehicle stuck here for hours, the battery dying, the saps inside freezing their patooties off? Pry my gas-powered vehicle from my cold, dead hands!” For everyone

Daily Network News

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures gain, hogs fall back

U.S. grains: Chicago grains and oilseeds rise on recent dollar weakness, biofuel optimism

Western Canadian resentment not exceptional — or highest in country — pollster says

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