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Thanks to tweets, blog posts, online product listings, factory-to-market retail, etc., we are seeing a direct line of communication to users and customers.

Comment: The fourth industrial revolution

Farmers can benefit more than most from the rapid technological advancements that are all around us

By Ryan Amberg June 4, 2019

Who is a farmer? My answer: a professional, a person of integrity and honesty, an expert in his or her field, a steward of the land, a champion of the working class, an employer, a hard worker and an entrepreneur. All these things are true and define most of the people driving today’s farm. It’s

High-tech systems can make managing information during the busy seeding season easier and more informative.

Crops, Equipment

Crop planning the digital way

It may be time to ditch the old notebook in favour of a new way of doing business in the spring

By Lawrence Lannoo April 17, 2019

Producers of the past relied on written records, the Farmer’s Almanac and a good pair of workboots to check their fields as they planned their spring planting operations. Today’s producers can reach for the smartphone or tablet in their tractors to access a digital platform with all the information they need to make crop decisions

Crops, News, Other

Are farmers drowning in data?

Precision farming data can help identify problems, target treatments and boost productivity, but how do farmers turn it into something useful?

By Alexis Stockford March 29, 2019

Sean Stanford doesn’t have a degree in computer science. He isn’t set up with the latest precision agriculture equipment. In a world where some look at individual rates for each spray nozzle, Stanford still seeds and sprays at a uniform rate. He is not set up for any variable-rate application and sees little value in

News, Other

Crop Portal gives a free taste of using farm data

Demonstration tool shows how data can be put to use on the farm

By Alexis Stockford March 29, 2019

Sarah Lepp has another tool in the tool box for agronomists and farmers who want to analyze farm data. The senior research associate with Niagara College Research and Innovation leads a team developing Crop Portal, a free tool which allows users to upload yield and input data, elevation mapping, soil tests and weather information. The

Harbans Bariana, of the Sydney Institute of Agriculture, with wheat plants in a greenhouse.

Did you know?, News

Harvesting wild genes boosts resistance

A new method promises to make finding and using these genes much easier and faster

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff February 20, 2019

A global alliance of researchers has pioneered a new method to rapidly recruit disease-resistance genes from wild plants for transfer into domestic crops. The technique promises to revolutionize the development of disease-resistant varieties. The technique called AgRenSeq was developed by scientists at the John Innes Centre in Britain working with colleagues in Australia and the

Crops, Local news

VIDEO: Free online tool promises farm data analysis

News from Ag Days 2019: Farmers looking for data analysis without breaking the bank can look to a free, web-based software program offered by Niagara College

By Alexis Stockford January 25, 2019

Niagara College has a new, free, option for farmers to turn their farm data into something usable for farm decisions. Sarah Lepp, senior research associate with Niagara College Research and Innovation, demonstrated their Crop Portal to this year’s Ag Days audience, using real farm data. The program processes and visualizes data ranging from yield to

Geospatial analyst Chigo Ibeh reviews a land-cover map of Baltimore at the office of the Chesapeake Conservancy in Annapolis, Maryland.

International news, News, Other

Can artificial intelligence aid conservation mapping?

Microsoft is betting it can speed up this labour-intensive process with modern tools

By Gregory Scruggs January 16, 2019

Thomson Reuters Foundation – In December 2016, environmental group Chesapeake Conservancy unveiled one of the largest, high-resolution land-cover maps made in the United States. It analyzed every square metre of satellite data in the 207 cities and counties that touch the watershed of the Chesapeake Bay on the U.S. eastern seaboard. The bay, North America’s

A new funding competition aims to jump-start high-technology agri-food projects.

News, Other

Feds open agriculture tech competition

The federal government is offering up to $50 million in funding for agri-food automation and digital technology projects

By Alex Binkley January 14, 2019

If you’ve got a bright idea for bringing artificial intelligence and advanced digital technology to the agri-food sector, you could find a lot of federal funding support. Jean-Claude Poissant, parliamentary secretary for agri-food, recently announced a funding competition for national-scale initiatives in automation and digital technology applications in the agri-food sector with between $10 million

Telecommunication tower with beautiful sky background

Comment, Other

Comment: CRTC scales back internet ambitions for remote areas

Being realistic about rural internet speeds is acceptable but the danger is ‘for now’ will become ‘forever’

November 5, 2018

When it comes to internet service, regardless how it is delivered, the one thing that matters most is speed – or so most Kitsilano condo dwellers would tell you. Because if you live in, say, Lunenberg County or Stony Rapids or Cambridge Bay, the thing that matters most about internet service is that you have

Opinion, Other

Opinion: Technology over time

By Marie Veersteeg August 21, 2018

Using technology successfully on the farm is about attitude, not age. That’s the message the Christian Farmers Federation of Ontario heard this summer from tech expert Peter Gredig. Gredig, a cash cropper and partner at AgNition Inc., was our guest speaker. Gredig, who describes himself as “mobile biased,” argues that every farmer can use new

Daily Network News

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures lower on falling beef prices, selling

Feed Grains Weekly: Quieter demand pulls prices down

Canada, Philippines make African swine fever zoning agreement

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