“The agriculture sector is in the midst of a transition characterized less and less by diesel and more and more by data,” said CFA first vice-president and Saskatchewan grain farmer Todd Lewis.
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Farmers want data strategy

WHITEHORSE — Data will drive productivity growth on Canadian farms, farm organizations told agriculture ministers last month. They called for a national data strategy during a roundtable at the Canadian Federation of Agriculture summer meeting and ahead of the federal-provincial-territorial annual ministerial meeting. “The agriculture sector is in the midst of a transition characterized less […] Read more

The Data Literacy for Cow-Calf Producers project aims to give farmers and ranchers the chance to discuss best practices and learn from experts and peers about how to use data to make better business decisions. | File photo

New program focuses on data literacy for cow-calf producers

Case studies and mentoring will help give farm data decision-making power

A project to increase the use of data in cow-calf operation decision-making has brought together organizations and researchers from across the sector. The Data Literacy for Cow-Calf Producers project aims to give farmers and ranchers the chance to discuss best practices and learn from experts and peers about how to use data to make better […] Read more


FieldView aims to simplify field data management for farmers by providing an online platform that can be accessed anywhere. It can unite data from each piece of precision farm equipment and makes the information more understandable through visualization and analysis tools. | Screencap via cropscience.bayer.ca

Combyne uses FieldView data to help market grain

Grain deliveries to be connected back to the fields they originated from and management choices made on those fields

Red Deer — Bayer is making it easier for farmers to track data from seeding to harvest, improving their ability to make better agronomic and marketing decisions. The company recently announced producers can now connect their agronomic data in Climate FieldView with their marketing data in Combyne, which was acquired by the company early in […] Read more