Farmers are increasingly looking at how they can price and buy their inputs online, but there are trust and relationship issues to overcome. Farmers already use digital platforms to buy […] Read more
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Online sales of large volume inputs changing
In 2017, Farmers Business Network made its debut in Canada, and offers many programs with aggregated data
Ontario company launches AI-based system to help automate fruit harvest
Croptracker traces fruit through the production process, but new image collection options can analyze fruit in bins for more efficient marketing and delivery
An Ontario software company is helping fruit and vegetable growers automate more of their labour-intensive harvest processes using artificial intelligence. Croptracker has just unveiled its latest innovation — Harvest Quality […] Read more
Canadian agriculture needs technology to innovate
Next innovators will need to look beyond yield and to what consumers are demanding
Will the next Canadian agricultural technological revolution focus on yield or taste? According to Tyler Whale, president of Ontario Agri-Food Technologies, an organization focused on technological development in food and […] Read more
Whether you trust it or not, precision agriculture is here to stay
Many farmers continue not to use precision agriculture tools because of trust concerns and complexity challenges
Precision agriculture is designed to help growers obtain planting and harvest data, satellite imagery, drone images and soil data and bring that all together in a way that’s easy to […] Read more
New system lets farmers make money off their farm data
Farmers will be able to own and control their data and decide when it can be shared or purchased
Whether we know it or not, data is being gathered with every Facebook visit, link click, or Google map search we make. Smartphones transmit information about our location and activities; […] Read more
Bringing fleet analytics to agriculture
Waterloo startup looks to create app to harvest and analyse farm equipment data
Cole Powers says that farmers should have access to scalable agriculture data technology, with a low barrier to entry. He and three fellow fourth-year University of Waterloo students are working […] Read more
Online sales can help drive specialty crop products
Camelina is being tested in Ontario to see if it works in crop rotations here
More often than not, the first instinct of consumers today is to head online when they’re looking to buy something. That’s less the case when it comes to the traditional […] Read more
Ontario ag data providers partner with Climate FieldView
Climate FieldView has added two more local partners. Farmers can now load information from SoilOptix and A&L Laboratories into Climate FieldView and use that information to deepen their analysis with […] Read more
Federal government invests in scientist “succession planning,” more inclusive research
The investment in agriculture research includes some new ways of involving partners
The federal government recently announced a $70 million investment into Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada’s (AAFC) network of research institutions, including what is being called the Living Laboratories Initiative. The investment […] Read more
The legal mess of farm data ownership
Digital Data Control: Laws in many countries are of little help determining who owns agricultural data
Worldwide, more and more farmers are using big-data software systems to increase farm productivity and profitability. A major and often-cited barrier to more widespread adoption, however, is the lack of […] Read more