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"Embrace the chaos. Volatility is the new normal,” says farm futurist Jim Carroll. “Run with it.”
Guide Business

Open for the future

Futurology: When farmers get told to be flexible, Leeann Minogue responds: “What does that actually mean?” Jim Carroll may know a big part of the answer

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Through this winter, we have asked ag industry experts to tell us about the big changes they see coming to the sector over the next 20 years. Some identified the potential for huge changes to the way we produce food — whether farmers will be gathering reams of data directly from plants and animals, or […] Read more
The autonomous Case IH Trident was on display and demonstrated to journalists at the Arizona event.
Equipment, Machinery

Putting autonomous machinery to the test

Saskatchewan farmers get a chance for a season with an autonomous fertilizer spreader

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Reading Time: 5 minutes Anyone who has operated or worked on repairing machinery has from time to time cursed the engineer who came up with an awkward design, or when fighting with a part that is nearly impossible to remove and replace when it fails. But what if one of the major brands knocked on your door and asked […] Read more
A 100-acre area is devoted to giving startups the space to test and validate their technology.
Crops, Equipment

Building a digital agriculture framework

EMILI looks to train future employees and provide a location for trials and demonstrations

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Reading Time: 4 minutes A Manitoba-based organization is looking to advance digital agriculture by supporting innovative technology integration and creating opportunities for students and entrepreneurs to pursue careers in the field. “In 2022, we led a variety of projects in partnership with industry and academics to provide the digital ag ecosystem with more skills, training and resources,” says Jacqueline […] Read more
Researchers are working towards a closed-loop system and Graham predicts the growing systems will also get more efficient as artificial intelligence, robotics, machine learning and feedback from the data sensors are utilized more effectively.
Fruit/Vegetables, Guide Life

Grow food anywhere

New Canadian startup Growcer already has 50 “vertical farms” in place in Canada. Get ready for a whole lot more

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Reading Time: 5 minutes In Canada’s northern regions, where the growing season is so short it can seem non-existent in any agricultural sort of way, fresh food from California and Mexico is not only expensive due to the transportation costs; all too often, it is no longer fresh. After experiencing first-hand how the high cost of fresh, healthy food […] Read more
Futurology
Guide Business

‘It’s all in your head’

Futurology: It takes brain power to farm. It always has, but nothing like the ‘mental machinery’ that will transform agriculture in the next 20 years

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Reading Time: 3 minutes This is the second in a series of articles about the future of agriculture. The series isn’t an attempt to forecast next month’s canola prices, but a look at what Canadian agriculture might look like in the long term, 20 years from now.  In the first article in the series, we looked at foresight, a […] Read more
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Crops, Machinery, Reuters

China must raise self-reliance in ag tech, Xi says

Seed industry seen as weak link in food chain

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Reading Time: < 1 minute Beijing | Reuters — President Xi Jinping wants China to accelerate efforts to achieve self-reliance in agricultural technology, identifying seed development and core equipment among areas to focus on, state media reported. The central leadership had said in 2020 that the country’s seed industry was a weak link in the food chain and needed to […] Read more
DLG’s test centre also has the ability to test multiple systems on a tractor simultaneously. Here tractor power is being used for PTO and hydraulic systems as well as pulling.
Equipment, Machinery

Virtual testing for real world conditions

Manufacturers turn to computer technology to validate new machine designs

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Reading Time: 6 minutes A few years ago I was interviewing a retired engineer who had worked at Massey Ferguson. We were talking about his involvement in testing prototypes, and he recalled how a group of employees would have to take shifts running newly designed machines over the “bump track” behind the engineering centre. That was a track with […] Read more
Future environmental regulations in developed countries propose limits on chemical inputs.
Guide Business, Machinery

The race toward precision agriculture

AGCO believes new environmental regs will shove farmers to invest more in precision ag

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Reading Time: 6 minutes In mid-July farmers in the Netherlands turned out en masse to block highways, an airport and various food distribution routes. Those acts of civil disobedience were sparked by resistance to the European Union’s “Green New Deal,” which establishes a host of new environmental regulations that Dutch farmers think will significantly affect their production methods. It’s […] Read more
The trick with satellite imagery is to get to the point where there’s an identified value that gets the grower into a field to ground-truth the information.
Crops, Equipment

More satellite imagery options for crops

A rapid increase in resellers is reshaping imagery demand and usability

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Reading Time: 4 minutes There are so many satellites up there these days that astronomers worry that they will block their view. And while some of these satellites can offer a new level of vegetation and crop image analysis, the uptake has been a bit slow so far. Where there has been significant growth — and perhaps a window […] Read more
File photo of greenhouse food production systems in British Columbia. (KarenMassier/iStock/Getty Images)
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B.C. to back Indigenous food system projects

New program taking applications starting Monday

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Reading Time: 2 minutes A new British Columbia program will provide up to $80,000 each for projects in agriculture, food processing or other sectors to improve food security in that province’s Indigenous communities. The province on Wednesday rolled out a new Indigenous Food Systems and Agriculture Partnership Program, which is set up to take applications starting Monday (Sept. 26) […] Read more

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