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Delegates try out the recently released Weedscout app during the Global 4-H Summit in Ottawa July 11-14.
Crops, Local news

Bayer shows off new apps at 4-H summit

Facial recognition technology can capture and identify the faces of weeds as well as humans

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A new app will bring weed identification to the field with the click of a smartphone camera. That’s according to Bayer and its recently released Weedscout app, which compares a photo of a weed with a cumulative database and returns a list of potential matches. “As it’s used more and more, it’s designed to learn
There’s one more year left to run on a farmer-friendly Manitoba Hydro 
solar installation program.
Local news

Manitoba sunshine brightens solar power opportunities

Many hours of sunshine make power generation possible even in the dead of winter

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Justin Phillips doesn’t mince his words: If you’re a Manitoba farmer, the time to invest in solar power is right now. The Winnipeg-based businessman helped pioneer the solar industry in Manitoba and has watched Manitoba Hydro kick-start the industry to unexpected heights via a farmer-friendly pilot program that has one year left on it. That
Local news

U of M receives connectivity boost

The Internet of things is set to make new inroads in agriculture

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The University of Manitoba will receive $500,000 from the newly merged telecom giant Bell MTS to fund a program aimed at developing an “Internet of things” in the agriculture and agri-food sector. Bell Canada CEO George Cole made the announcement in Winnipeg last week, during a Chamber of Commerce luncheon, highlighting the company’s contribution to
Accessing agriculture’s big data
Opinion

Accessing agriculture’s big data

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For several years, farmers have been using technology that is accumulating massive amounts of data on production practices – also referred to as “big data.” But how might big data be managed? What information will be available to whom? Technology, for example, frequently fits the category of “private but available for a price.” The general
female scientist pouring liquid in a tube
News

Keeping agriculture research relevant

The Agriculture Institute of Canada wants to make sure research leaves the lab and enters the real world

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The Agriculture Institute of Canada has released a policy on best practices in agriculture research to make sure that knowledge gained in the lab is shared with others in the field and consumers. AIC’s CEO Serge Buy calls the policy a living document that like research itself will be updated with new information to keep
Australia is finding high-tech solutions are going to take an educated workforce.
News

Australia is a leader in high-tech agriculture

The country seeks to plug its shortage in 
rural labour with technology solutions

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Parts of Australia’s farming industry are rushing to recruit a new generation of tech-savvy graduates as the sector swaps its bucolic past for a future of drones, robots and automated sensors. The push comes as cutting-edge machinery is used to plug a labour shortage on the nation’s remote farms that threatens to derail its ambitions
Rural Landscape in south western Canada and snow capped mountains
Comment

Wiring the farm for the Information Age

The new classification of broadband Internet as a basic telecommunications service 
could significantly narrow the rural-urban digital divide

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Information is power, and without data, it is impossible to operate a business — any business. At the tail end of 2016, Canadian agriculture received the news it had long been waiting for: the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) declared that broadband Internet access in Canada is now considered a basic telecommunications service for
cartoon image of a family seated at a table
The Jacksons

Fun with parents and technology

The Jacksons from the January 12, 2017 issue of the Manitoba Co-operator

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Jennifer Jackson rubbed the sleep out of her eyes as she padded in slipper-clad feet into the kitchen of the apartment she shared with her best friend Kendra. Kendra was already there in the kitchen, sitting at the 1950-era chrome table, a cup of coffee sitting in front of her on the shiny blue formica
Telecommunication tower with beautiful sky background
News

Study says faster Internet speeds not enough

The Rural Development Institute says increasing the culture of use in rural areas 
is equally important to making faster broadband available

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A new study by the Rural Development Institute (RDI) in Brandon says rural residents will need help becoming more Internet savvy as faster broadband services become available. “Everybody treats broadband with a mentality of ‘build it and they will come,’” said RDI research associate Wayne Kelly. “What we’re finding, though, is that there is a
News

CRTC Internet decision draws strong support

The ruling will be a game-changer for Internet service in Canada say supporters

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Rural Canada is in line to be a lot more online, thanks to a pre-Christmas ruling by the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC). The commission concluded that residential and mobile Internet is a basic service required for modern life, as important as the telephone. All Canadians must have access to a basic service with

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