From smart watches that track your sleep to apps on your smartphone that use artificial intelligence to provide information in seconds, AI is becoming more and more commonplace. | Getty Images

Veterinary medicine makes use of artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence and machine learning are becoming part of everyday life very rapidly. From smart watches that track your sleep to apps on your smartphone that use artificial intelligence to provide information in seconds, AI is becoming more and more commonplace. My simplified understanding of AI is that this field of computer science is developing […] Read more


The funding announcement coincided with the July 25 grand opening of the Enterprise Machine Intelligence and Learning Initiative's (EMILI) Innovation Farms Centre 20 minutes northwest of Winnipeg. | Screencap via emilicanada.com / David Lipnowski

Artificial intelligence research receives funding boost

Manitoba’s Enterprise Machine Intelligence and Learning Initiative receives $2 million funding boost from government

Glacier FarmMedia – The Enterprise Machine Intelligence and Learning Initiative (EMILI) has been granted $2 million in government funding to help drive innovation in Manitoba agriculture. The funding announcement coincided with the July 25 grand opening of its Innovation Farms Centre 20 minutes northwest of Winnipeg. “Manitoba farmers and producers are a critical part of […] Read more

Innovative technology is driving mode40, a Manitoba-based company, to streamline and upgrade meat cooling across the country. | Getty Images

AI reaches into the meat locker

Once commercialized, the high-tech meat management system promises gains on efficiency, sustainability, quality

Glacier FarmMedia – Artificial intelligence is digging footholds in agriculture and agribusiness, from crop and herd monitoring to traceability and weed management. For one Manitoba-born company, AI has become a tool for carcass quality control in the meat sector. Cameron Bergen is chief executive officer and co-founder of mode40, a technology services company that helps […] Read more

Artificial intelligence needs large datasets to analyze so it has accurate information on which to base a decision. Agriculture, and specifically dairy farms, are creating greater volumes of data.  |  File photo

Dairy producers urged to use AI with caution

Glacier FarmMedia – Use of artificial intelligence tools in farming is expected to grow quickly in the next five years, automating and enhancing farmer decisions. Most artificial intelligence (AI) uses are at the edges of technologies farmers already use, and may deliver inaccurate answers to queries. In the dairy sector, there are three main areas […] Read more


Cattle producers collect a great deal of data on their animals related to health care, rate of gain and cost of gain that could be better analyzed using artificial intelligence, says a strategist.  |  File photo

Artificial intelligence challenges the status quo

Beef industry told new technology is ushering in a new era that will require farm managers to be strategically disruptive

You may run a great beef operation, but how do you make yourself remarkable? That’s likely not a question most ranchers ask themselves, but according to a technology expert who spoke to the recent Alberta Beef Industry Conference, it is the type of question and thinking that must be asked today in light of explosive […] Read more

With smart technology and artificial intelligence, it should be possible to flag illness long before humans can identify it, says Tami Brown-Brandl of the University of Nebraska, speaking at the Manitoba Swine Seminar. | File photo

Smart tech can identify sick pigs

A sick pig doesn’t want anyone to know it’s not well, and that can stop even the best barn staff from intervening before the animal’s condition worsens. With smart technology and artificial intelligence, it should be possible to flag illness long before humans can identify it, says Tami Brown-Brandl of the University of Nebraska, speaking […] Read more