Ag Growth International Inc. is making a minority equity investment of US$15 million in Farmobile, Inc. Farmobile, headquartered in Leawood, Kansas, is an independent agriculture technology company, providing hardware and software services for the real-time collection, organization, analysis, and storage of farm data. The Farmobile device collects and streams real-time, geo-tagged agronomic and machine data... Read More
Category: Crop Production
The Ontario government announced $1.3 million in funding through the Ontario Agri-Food Innovation Alliance, a funding partnership with the University of Guelph. The research projects at the University of Guelph will focus on increasing production and decreasing economic losses caused by crop diseases and pests on Ontario farms, including: Surveillance for blight management decisions in... Read More
With two potential new models for collecting seed royalties on the horizon, farm groups across the Prairies are wanting to hear from producers as to what their preference would be. Currently, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) and the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) have put their consultation process on hold with farmers. This comes after... Read More
BASF has retooled how it moves its products to customers and plans to launch the direct-to-retail model in full for the 2020 growing season. Called RetailConnect, the distribution model for seed and crop protection products will work directly with independent retailers across Western Canada. The full roll-out follows what BASF calls successful piloting of RetailConnect... Read More
This past week ILTA Grain Inc. announced it was granted creditor protection under the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act (CCAA). In a letter to its vendors and suppliers dated July 8th, 2019, CEO Dan Burneski stated the decision to file was not taken lightly, but "a necessary step" to address its financial situation. "The CCAA filing... Read More