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Marco van Leeuwen is the president of the International Seed Federation and managing director of seed company Rijk Zwaan. Photo: John Greig
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World Seed Congress addresses global supply chain challenges 

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The World Seed Congress is on in Rotterdam, Netherlands with a discussion of the major issues facing the seed and crops sector. The major issues on the agenda include the challenges that the decline in free trade and globalization brings to major suppliers of seeds, the acceptance of gene editing and the technology involved in that process.
How should growers and agronomists interpret the gigabytes, even terabytes, of ag data available?
Equipment, Features

How to deal with the farm data deluge

The growers have all the data, but do they necessarily use it?

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Glacier FarmMedia — The launch of the first GPS yield monitors altered the world of on-farm data collection. That was followed by variable-rate technology, precision planting and aerial/satellite imaging. Most growers have now been accumulating data for 20 years or longer — and many have resolved to keep that data in the hopes of finding […] Read more
In orbit since 2017 with an expected design life of 15 years, the SES-15 (PRN 133) satellite will be offline in “test” mode this spring from mid-May into early June.
Crops, Equipment, Machinery

WAAS signal outage planned

Satellite 133 will not be available during some spring seeding weeks

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If the GPS system in use on your farm relies on a WAAS (Wide Area Augmentation System) signal, then be aware there will be an outage right in the middle of spring seeding this year. The United States’ Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), which administers the civilian-use GPS network, plans to switch WAAS GEO 6 (S15 […] Read more
Some ag tech startup companies continue to get funding, but it isn’t as much or as likely as during the pandemic years. Photo: Avalon_Studio/iStock/Getty Images
Machinery, News

Ag tech venture capital stays on sidelines

Entrepreneurs need patience, more plan to achieve profitability to unlock investment

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Agriculture venture capital investment was an outlier in 2023, as it increased slightly over 2022, according to the Canadian Venture Capital Association (CVCA). However, that news belied pessimism on the state of ag tech at the recent Agri Tech Venture Forum in Toronto. The forum heard that the availability of capital for agriculture technology entrepreneurs has dried up significantly compared to the heady days of investment growth during the pandemic years.
A May 2022 RADARSAT Constellation Mission satellite image of fields in Manitoba, including many affected by flooding. Adoption of satellite imagery in agriculture is seen to have lagged compared to other sectors.
Equipment, Features

Farm focus needed for eyes in the sky

An ag expert with NASA talks about why on-farm adoption of satellite imagery has lagged

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Satellite imagery has potential to revolutionize agricultural management, but that isn’t likely to happen unless on-farm adoption rates increase, the head of a NASA-led consortium said during a recent event in Winnipeg. NASA Harvest executive director Alyssa Whitcraft told attendees at this year’s Canadian Crops Convention that use of satellite imagery has exploded in some […] Read more
Shortline implement manufacturers’ product lines may suffer from a lack of universal digital communication between machines and attachments.
Equipment, Features, Machinery

Code clash limits header options

Digital lockouts by OEMs may begin forcing combine buyers to forgo shortline headers

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For many farmers, pairing their favourite brand of combine with a header from a Prairie shortline manufacturer makes a preferred package. Recently, though, some OEMs have denied header manufacturers the command set code needed to link the header with some combine and swather models’ digital systems — which means buyers of those machines will have […] Read more

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