Reading Time: 5 minutes As Canadian farmers embrace automation, cybersecurity is the new front line. Here's how to protect your on-farm data from digital threats.
When hackers hit the barn
Automation brings efficiency, but also new vulnerabilities. Here’s how Canadian farmers can protect their operations from cyberattacks
Are farmers ready for the digital ag revolution?
Staying competitive and reducing costs in today’s economy are major drivers for farms adopting digital technology
Reading Time: 9 minutes How farmers are using technology to remain competitive, find opportunities and meet challenges.
Where convention and innovation meet
Just outside the booming metropolis of Toronto, three generations on this farm family are melding traditions of the past with the latest in ag technology
Reading Time: 5 minutes How one Ontario farm is integrating technology into their beef operation.
Artificial intelligence reaps what you sow
Are you worried your farm is missing the AI bandwagon? You might actually be further ahead than you think
Reading Time: 8 minutes If you think you’re missing out on the ag tech revolution, the good news is you’re already using AI.
Knowledge lost and gained
Over the past few decades, technology has progressed exponentially, providing access to vast amounts of information. Ironically, this influx is contributing to a loss of important knowledge as well
Reading Time: 7 minutes How does a young animal learn to hunt? By observing the older generation. Humans are much the same. As a social species, we learn by mimicking, otherwise known as social learning. Social learning is the process through which we acquire knowledge and behaviours, by watching and imitating others. Like much of human social learning, transferring […] Read more
The pros and cons of new technologies
New tech and equipment can be fun and often helpful, but experts caution against “new and shiny” syndrome
Reading Time: 3 minutes New farm technology hitting the marketplace can be awfully enticing, and it’s not been unheard of in years gone by to cause a frenzied “must-buy” reaction from those wowed by a demonstration. But just because the latest whiz-bang creation can, for the sake of argument, combine, check the markets, and cook an egg, all while […] Read more
Get more shots on goal with AI
The Global Institute for Food Security in Saskatoon is planning to lead the world into a future where computers can re-design and improve natural compounds and where science will make bigger strides than ever before
Reading Time: 5 minutes Ben Scott builds proteins. You got that? He is not looking for proteins. He creates them, from scratch. Scott is an engineering biology expert at the Global Institute for Food Security (GIFS) at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon. He is helping GIFS build an engineering biology foundry to design, build and test new enzyme […] Read more
Moo to Do streamlines on-farm tasks for staff
Newest product from CATTLEytics wins innovation award at Canada's Outdoor Farm Show
Reading Time: < 1 minute Glacier FarmMedia – Improving workflow for employees is the focus of a new product from agriculture technology company CATTLEytics. The Moo to Do system is a staff scheduling module for dairy operations. The system is meant to streamline on-farm tasks like scheduling and management. Built-in software provides data-driven insights to help the efficiency of dairy […] Read more
Summer Series: Drone spraying
[Change Management] Farmers really don’t care who is to blame for the delays. They just want the regulations changed yesterday so they can spray tomorrow
Reading Time: 8 minutes The off-label application of pesticides in Canada is going to increase exponentially over the next few years. This is what I believe and expect, and I expect too that it will pit farmers, government regulators, pesticide companies, equipment manufacturers and environmentalists against one another. In fact, the blame game has already started. At issue is […] Read more
Entrepreneurs tout products at Ag in Motion event
Reading Time: 3 minutes Entrepreneurs pitched their products at Ag in Motion’s AgTech Breakfast today.
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