Glacier FarmMedia – Day two of Ag in Motion was kicked off with the announcement of a partnership between tech incubator Cultivator, powered by Conexus, and AIM for 2025. Cultivator, which has been a regular at the Canada’s Farm Show in Regina, will be moving its demonstration day to Ag in Motion in 2025 said […] Read more
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Entrepreneurs tout products at Ag in Motion event
Glacier FarmMedia – Entrepreneurs pitched their products at Ag in Motion‘s AgTech Breakfast. Trevor Scherman, co-founder of Combine Settings, was first up to talk about his website, designed to help farmers reduce harvest losses. “Losses at harvest are astronomical,” he said during the event hosted by Startup TNT. Canola farmers lose an average of 1.3 […] Read more
VIDEO: Prairie supply line intact for BASF’s glufosinate
Glacier FarmMedia – As we reported on our sites last week, ag chem firm BASF plans to shut down production of glufosinate ammonium at two plants in Germany by year-end, and shut down formulation of the product at its Frankfurt plant in 2025. Dave Bedard of Grainews visits the BASF site at Ag in Motion […] Read more
FBN planning expansion of product line
Glacier FarmMedia – Farmers Business Network is expanding its footprint in Canada. The company that is primarily known for retailing agricultural chemicals direct to its farmer-members plans to branch out into providing various other crop inputs, such as farm lending products. “That’s something we do in the U.S. that we don’t do in Canada,” FBN’s […] Read more
From AIM: Expect a year of drone drama
Glacier FarmMedia – The latest drone technology in agriculture was on full display at Ag in Motion 2024 in Langham, Sask., drawing a crowd to a demonstration of the latest models. Smaller drones designed for surveying, and crop/livestock monitoring are already a tool in many farmers’ toolboxes, but the larger spray drones are also becoming […] Read more
From AIM: How do we keep ahead of herbicide resistance?
Glacier FarmMedia – Be proactive, be creative and don’t be cheap. That was the takeaway from a panel discussion on managing herbicide resistance at this year’s Ag in Motion farm show. “I think the best management practice that someone could do for weed resistance is the one you’re not currently doing on your farm,” said […] Read more
From AIM: How many flowers in a canola field?
Glacier FarmMedia – There’s no debating the beauty of a canola field in bloom, but it’s possible to have a more scientific debate about canola flowers. Such as, how many yellow flowers are there, in a canola field that’s one section in size? On the morning of July 14, the fields of northeastern Saskatchewan looked […] Read more
From AIM: Livestock goes high tech
Glacier FarmMedia – A Saskatchewan ag tech startup company helps assure livestock farmers that their animals are receiving adequate water. One of Katlin Lang’s friends wanted to get away to the lake without having to worry that his cattle were out of water. He asked Lang, who studied electronic systems engineering at the University of […] Read more
First Nations should demand at-market lease rates: Lerat
Glacier FarmMedia – First Nations need to stop leasing out their land to non-Indigenous farmers for below-market prices, says farmer and band councillor Terry Lerat of Cowessess First Nation in south-central Saskatchewan. Instead, bands should be getting every penny they can for the farmland they own and using that money to get themselves back into […] Read more
Sask. government researching water quality with ag tech
Glacier FarmMedia – A new research project from Saskatchewan government is focusing on technology with ag tech company FarmSimple. At the Livestock AgTech Happy Hour at Ag in Motion on July 16, 2024, Chelsey Siemens, a livestock and feed extension specialist with the province, said they are doing a research project through ADOPT (Agriculture Demonstration […] Read more
