Lakeland College's "Leading, Learning, The Lakeland Campaign," is seeing a significant amount of support for programming and research initiatives focused on agriculture technology. MNP — a national accounting, tax, and business consulting firm for Canadian agriculture — has donated $90,000 to the program, which will help fund equipment for the Agriculture Technology Centre at the... Read More
Category: Technology
It's been a few years since DOT, the autonomous farm robot now owned by Raven Industries, made waves in the ag industry. Now that it's had a chance to run, how does it fare in the field? Daniel Stefner, fourth year Bachelor of Applied Science agribusiness major student at Olds College, recently joined Shaun Haney... Read More
Alison Sunstrum was pushing for interconnectivity of farm data long before the internet was even commonplace. It's that kind of foresight that has pushed Sunstrum to grow not only her own businesses, but also to act as mentor — and sometimes funder and partner — to several other upstarts and innovators in agriculture. In this... Read More
John Deere's new See & Spray Select technology will give farmers the ability to identify weeds, spot spray herbicide, and reduce non-residual, pre-emergent herbicide use by 77 per cent, the company says. Deere officially launched the commercial sale of the technology today during the annual Commodity Classic. It will be available on the company's 400... Read More
Ontario-based digital agriculture service provider Deveron Corp. has acquired Farm Dog, a farm data company based in California that helps farmers and agronomists organize and leverage field information. Founded by Liron Brish in 2015 as an in-field scouting app, Farm Dog has more than 4,000 clients representing over 2 million acres, according to a news... Read More
Need a certain wrench in the middle of a field? Call a drone. Lost a shear pin? Call a drone. Finished your lunch in the cab and it's only 10 am? Call a drone. Or more likely, just open the app or your phone's virtual assistant and order that second lunch. Okay, it may be... Read More
Farmers Edge is preparing to become a publicly-traded company. The Canadian digital agriculture business, which was co-founded by CEO Wade Barnes at Pilot Mound, Man. 16 years ago, has submitted a preliminary prospectus with authorities in each Canadian province and territory, and received a receipt for an initial public offering. In the prospectus, the company... Read More
NEVONEX — a company that enables integration of digital services directly into field machines — has signed an agreement that will see the integration of the AGvisorPRO app inside the NEVONEX system. Powered by Bosch, the NEVONEX platform is a secure framework with End-2-End infrastructure. Robert Saik, founder and CEO of AGvisorPRO, says through their... Read More
On Thursday, Ryan Jespersen featured an hour dedicated to agricultural issues. The panel consisted of Alberta based beef and dairy farmer Jeff Nonay, Brittany Hennig, a MSc Student at the University of Alberta & Research Administration at Alberta Canola, and me. With a primarily urban audience, addressing agricultural issues on a show like this is... Read More
BASF Digital Farming says it will be the first to offer the agriculture industry scalable, daily biomass satellite imagery, unimpeded by cloud cover through a partnership with VanderSat. The partnership will utilize VanderSat's Cloud-free Biomass product and BASF's xarvio Field Manager solution. The technology is expected to be available in North America by the end... Read More