Farmers Edge is a digital agronomy firm that offers services such as variable rate nutrition management and FarmCommand, a data management and analytics platform. Farmers Edge, founder and former CEO Wade Barnes, former chief financial officer David Patrick, Fairfax Financial Holdings and several financial underwriters are named in the suit asking for a combined total of $270 million in damages. | Screencap via farmersedge.ca

Former investors seek class action lawsuit against Farmers Edge

Plaintiffs allege they received misleading information prior to the company's 2021 IPO

Glacier FarmMedia – Former investors in Manitoba-based ag tech firm Farmers Edge have asked the B.C. Supreme Court to certify a class action lawsuit against the company, former leaders and its main shareholder. Vancouver resident Willson Leung and Ottawa resident Philippe Golin, both identified as former shareholders in Farmers Edge, filed the suit on February […] Read more

Hopes are running high for the Port of Churchill, but securing grain traffic for the facility faces obstacles, including lack of interest from grain companies, which have their own terminals on the West Coast and at Thunder Bay.  |  File photo

Churchill charts new course

Glacier FarmMedia – It’s been decades since there’s been this kind of optimism around the Port of Churchill and how it could be developed into a transportation hub. The money is flowing. Last month, Manitoba premier Wab Kinew announced $60 million in provincial and federal funds to get the Hudson Bay Railway between The Pas […] Read more