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Health Canada had previously decided that gene edited crops are safe, so, in most cases they will be treated the same as crops developed through traditional plant breeding methods. Photo: File

CFIA declares gene editing safe for livestock feed

By Robert Arnason May 3, 2024

Reading Time: 3 minutes Glacier FarmMedia – Leaders in Canada’s grain industry are praising the Canadian Food Inspection Agency for confirming gene edited crops are safe to use as livestock feed. Today, the Canola Council of Canada, the Canada Grains Council and Cereals Canada “applauded” the CFIA for its new guidance on gene editing. “This is a ground-breaking day […] Read more

A DOT (now OmniPower) autonomous unit at work on the Olds College Smart Farm. (Olds College video screengrab via YouTube)

General, Machinery

Smart farm competition encourages farmers to adopt technology

Competition will serve as opportunity to create and develop smart farm networks

By Jonah Grignon December 13, 2023

Reading Time: 2 minutes The Canadian Agri-Food Automation and Intelligence Network (CAAIN) is seeking applications for a competition geared toward creating or developing new smart farm networks. Funding under this initiative will support collaborative on-farm tech innovations in hopes encouraging farmers to adopt emergent agriculture technology. CAAIN receives funding from Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada to address challenges […] Read more

Farmers Edge’ made its initial public offering in March of 2021. The event included a congratulatory note from TMX Group, owner of the TSX. (Farmers Edge video screengrab)

General

Farmers Edge considering privatization

The tech firm is evaluating a pennies on the dollar share buyback from its majority holder

By GFM Network News November 27, 2023

Reading Time: < 1 minute Fewer than three years after going public, Manitoba-based tech firm Farmers Edge is considering a privatization proposal.

Darren Wolchyn (at right), founder and CEO of Smart Paddock, receives the Innovation Award from Kevin Chung, director of innovation investments and programs at Innovation Saskatchewan, at the Canadian Animal Ag Tech Awards. (Lisa Guenther photo)

Livestock, Machinery

At Agribition: Livestock tech companies earn new spotlight

Canadian Animal Ag Tech Awards presented

By Lisa Guenther November 24, 2023

Reading Time: 2 minutes Three companies were crowned winners at the first annual Canadian Animal Ag Tech Awards on Thursday during Canadian Western Agribition in Regina. The event spotlighted companies creating technology for the livestock industry, with products ranging from water sensors to artificial intelligence-powered monitoring systems. Australia’s Smart Paddock received the Innovation Award. The company’s GPS ear tags […] Read more

Felippe Karp is a a PhD candidate from McGill University doing fieldwork at Olds College of Agriculture & Technology. Through a McGill, Telus and Olds College joint project, Karp is studying how to bring together multiple layers of farm data to support agricultural decision making.

Equipment, Features

AI for data analysis

[AI for the Farm] Farms are building giant heaps of data. Somewhere in them is something valuable, call it a star of hope. But how do you pick out the useful stuff? It looks like artificial intelligence will help

By Jay Whetter November 17, 2023

Reading Time: 6 minutes Your conversation starts with a text on your device: FARMER: “Farmbot, please make me a prescription map.” BOT REPLIES TO FARMER VIA TEXT: Would you like to do variable rate seeding on field 10?FARMER: Seed costs are higher, so yes.BOT: Would you like me to produce a rate map for you?FARMER: Yes.The Bot provides the map […] Read more

“What we will be in three, four, five years will be unrecognizable,” says APH’s Nelson Gibson.

Features, Guide Business

If you really want it

Can Canada’s farmers launch better business ventures by following Nelson Gibson’s lead at APH?

By Tom Button November 6, 2023

Reading Time: 6 minutes Two minutes into the conversation, you begin to see the parallels between Nelson Gibson’s job and the job that more Canadian farmers see ahead for themselves. On the farm, that job is ahead partly because of how the land market is curtailing farm expansion plans, and partly too because of the new levels of equity […] Read more

Stephen Vajdik and Adam Gurr run an Agrifac sprayer, made in the Netherlands, mounted with a Bilberry optical system. The sprayer has industry-leading features they wanted, including a recirculating boom, individually controlled nozzles and stable suspension.

Equipment, Features

How optical sprayers do a whole lot more

[Better Advice] Optical spraying systems can pay off if used only for pre-seed burnoffs, but with a little pushing of boundaries, these farmers are finding they can also use the technology to target fungicides and pre-harvest desiccants

By Jay Whetter October 24, 2023

Reading Time: 5 minutes Early adopters are buying optical spraying systems to greatly reduce the amount of herbicide required for pre-season burnoff of weeds. This alone is often enough to justify the cost for larger farms that cover thousands of acres per year. But pre-seed burnoff — seeing green weeds on brown ground and spraying them — is just […] Read more

People visit crop plots at Discovery Farm Woodstock during Canada’s Outdoor Farm Show. Photo: Canada’s Outdoor Farm Show

General

Discovery Farm Woodstock joins Pan-Canadian Smart Farm Network

The research site joins its Saskatchewan counterpart on the initiative’s roster

By GFM Network News August 8, 2023

Reading Time: 2 minutes Glacier FarmMedia’s eastern Discovery Farm has joined the locations that share data and research through Old’s College’s Pan-Canadian Smart Farm Network. The 330-acre Ontario site is the host of various demonstration research projects and Canada’s Outdoor Farm Show. It was established as the permanent home for the show in 2020. “The objective is to provide […] Read more

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

Beef Cattle, Dairy Cattle, Livestock

At Ag in Motion: New tester monitors bull fertility

By John Greig July 22, 2023

Reading Time: 2 minutes 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 […] Read more

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

Crops, Machinery

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 Jeff Melchior July 18, 2023

Reading Time: 2 minutes 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 […] Read more

Daily Network News

Prairie Wheat Weekly: Rising loonie pushes down cash prices

Prairie forecast: Arctic air dominates the forecast

Bayer takes its multi-front battle on pesticide liability to Kansas

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