Glacier FarmMedia – In early 2021, John Deere introduced its See and Spray Select system on sprayers. It enabled sprayers to spot spray weeds in a fallow field, offering considerable savings on herbicide use. However, that kind of green-on-brown technology has limited use in no-till cropping systems. When the feature was launched, the brand made […] Read more
Deere launches See and Spray Ultimate
Green-on-green sprayer system now available for some crops
Scouting robot seeks validation
Every day the robot lurks in fields, watching, seeing all and recording every event, searching for anomalies
Glacier FarmMedia – Another agricultural robot is roaming Canadian fields. Brazilian-based Solinftec uses artificial intelligence to guide its robot’s motion in fields, and to analyze the images of crops it captures as it travels autonomously along crop rows. Leo Carvalho of Solinftec said the Solix Ag robot scans for crop health and nutrition, disease, insects […] Read more
Lactanet looking at new inbreeding tool
Company developing list of “diversity sires” for Compass management software
Inbreeding was once perceived as a significant threat to long-term stability of Canada’s dairy industry, and the dairy genetics sector worked to successfully tackle the challenge in the first decade of the 2000s. The advent of genomics over the next decade shifted the sector’s focus but at Lactanet Canada’s most recent Open Industry Session shows […] Read more
Why is cybersecurity not a selling point?
Expert believes ag and automotive sector’s cybersecurity focus is lacking, despite immensity of threat
The importance of cybersecurity can’t be understated so why don’t equipment companies market top-notch digital security capabilities as a feature in their products? For that matter, why are even passing mentions of cybersecurity rare? These questions are posed by David Masson, a long-time digital security professional and director of enterprise security for the globe-spanning AI […] Read more
Focused on the future
New Palmerston-area hog finishing barn focuses on biosecurity and operator ease
The Hercules Arm deadstock remover was a significant point of interest during the Copper Creek Pork open house near Palmerston on June 17. The ride-on solo operator deadstock mover provides a tiltable, telescopic boom and 2500 lbs winch capacity. “We’re both getting older, and often it’s just me in the barn alone. (The Hercules) is […] Read more
Carbon tax rebates not equal to costs
Government bill to reimburse carbon taxes to farmers see some get more, some less than what they paid
Glacier FarmMedia – The average rebate farmers can expect on the carbon tax they paid to dry grain is $820 per farm, according to a federal finance official. Bill C-8, the federal government’s answer to calls for natural gas and propane used to dry grain to be exempt from carbon pricing, passed last month. Why […] Read more
Climate-focused group preps for new policy framework
Farmers for Climate Solutions releases new report ahead of agriculture ministers meeting
With federal, provincial and territorial ministers set to gather this month for the final time before the expiration of the current Agricultural Policy Framework (APF), a national coalition of farm organizations hopes its newly published climate ‘task force report’ will win the attention of policymakers. “We’re not sure if we’ll be allowed to attend (the […] Read more
Mid-year farm-gate milk price increase set
The need to soften inflation’s impact on the farm outweighs other public image factors, says FCC
Anyone expressing surprise or dismay at the recently announced plan to increase the farm-gate milk price in Canada on Sept. 1 is ignoring financial realities, says the chief economist at agricultural lender Farm Credit Canada (FCC). “I definitely saw it coming,” J.P. Gervais told Farmtario in a recent interview, referring to a June 21 Canadian […] Read more
U.S. Midwest forecast is bad news for corn, soybeans
Weather patterns strongly indicate a prolonged hot, dry spell in the Midwest
Glacier FarmMedia – A summer forecast calling for hot and dry weather in the United States Midwest will keep the corn and soybean bulls running if it comes to fruition, says an analyst. “It’s hard to rule out some kind of crazy prices this summer,” said DTN lead analyst Todd Hultman. A U.S. drought would […] Read more
Vertical farming startup Vision Greens raises $7M
Ontario-based and Canadian-founded Vision Greens officially launched its lineup of Foodland Ontario certified non-GMO, pesticide-free leafy greens. The company grows lettuce varieties in a vertical farm using proprietary growing technology. It recently raised $7 million from what the company said are “investors that are purpose-driven business leaders, including members of the Canadian grocery segment focused […] Read more
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