Bioenterprise Canada is looking for farmers from across the country to join its new farmer innovation advisory group to help innovators and other stakeholders can get a better understanding of farming challenges and solutions that could help on the farm.
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Wanted: Farmers interested in innovation
Bioenterprise Canada wants farmers to participate in an advisory group to help connect tech innovation to implementation
Federal funding creates national agri-food innovation network
The Sustainable Food Systems for Canada will be headquartered at the Arrell Food Institute
A new national network of post-secondary institutions and other groups to foster innovation in agriculture and food will be led by the University of Guelph.
A national vision for agri-food innovation
Several recent reports have identified key barriers. Will they drive the change that innovations need to succeed?
Despite its resources, strength in primary production, and agricultural research investments, Canada lags when it comes to bringing innovation to market, not even cracking Bloomberg’s global top 20 list.
Investors and farmers are worlds apart
Lack of knowledge, few connections means not enough dollars flow into agriculture, say speakers
The insular nature of Canadian agriculture is one of its biggest innovation challenges, said speakers at a recent agriculture event. Growth will thrive when connections are made, collaborations are struck, and investors are found to put up the dollars needed to take a concept and make it reality, but there’s not enough of any of those things, according to speakers at Bioenterprise’s National Call to Action in Ottawa Nov. 25.
Challenge model a new way to fund, support innovation
Five Ontario companies are among 13 semi-finalists selected in the federal government's Agricultural Methane Reduction Challenge, which is seeking innovative ways to reduce methane emissions from dairy and beef cattle.
Challenge model a new way to fund, support innovation
Federal departments use crowd-sourcing concept to find ways to reduce methane emissions from cattle
Five Ontario companies are among 13 semi-finalists selected in the federal government’s Agricultural Methane Reduction Challenge, which is seeking innovative ways to reduce methane emissions from dairy and beef cattle.
Canada lags in agri-food innovation funding
We will never become a true player on the global innovation stage unless barriers removed
The U.S. takes agri-food innovation much more seriously than Canada does, both by recognizing agriculture as a priority sector with economic growth potential and by making meaningful investments into agri-food entrepreneurs in their regions.
Porcus Optimus scale system promises low-labour pig weighing
Researchers from the University of Manitoba are creating a computer vision system that can weigh pigs without a scale
Porcus Optimus is a new low-labour weighing method for livestock.
New AI-based technologies offer weed control solutions
Canadian and Swiss companies using AI vision tools to target weeds with electricity and minimal chemical use
Some new approaches to weed control include a Canadian ag tech company that is putting a new spark into an old method by using electricity for weeding, and a Swiss company is using high tech visioning equipment to target spray at the weeds instead of all the plants on the field.
New accelerator hub offers support to innovators
Grow Ontario Accelerator Hub provides advisory, mentoring and business services tailored to unique needs of participants
The Grow Ontario Accelerator Hub (GOAH), delivered by Bioenterprise Canada, is a five-year program in which 100 Ontario-based agri-food and agri-tech companies will receive advisory, mentoring and business support services tailored to their needs.
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