Cargill has contracted Linnet – The Land Systems Company to provide its retail crop inputs locations with agronomic and business management software systems.
The system will allow the farm supply centres to provide customers with complete programs for fertility crop planning, field scouting, analytical testing and field services management.
It will also help manage grower contract management, said a news release.
Part of the system, called Croplands, is already available at Canadian Cargill outlets and over the next year will be incorporated across this country and the United States.
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The system will also allow supply centres to provide precision farming services to clients.
The contract is estimated to be worth $3.7 million.
SWP expands elevator
Saskatoon newsroom
Saskatchewan Wheat Pool plans to expand its grain handling and marketing facility at Humboldt, Sask.
The upgrade will expand the loading track from a 42-car spot to 54 cars, said a news release.
Also, two 3,500-tonne storage bins, complete with shipping leg and spouting, will be installed to increase total storage capacity to 16,500 tonnes.
The existing concrete elevator, built in 1993, has 9,500 tonnes of storage.
The facility is located five kilometres east of Humboldt on Highway 5.
Work is expected to begin soon, weather permitting, and be completed in the fall of 2000.
