Insights and Stories of John Greig

Jul. 10, 2024 at 1:35 pm CDT

A new event in conjunction with AgSmart at Olds College aims to bring mainstream technology startup support to the agriculture sector.

By John Greig

Jun. 28, 2024 at 11:54 am CDT

Glacier FarmMedia—A Dutch farmer is making liquid fertilizer from cow manure so he can use the nutrients locally instead of moving them around the country. Ton Groot Roessink milks about 200 cows near Baak, using robots, automated feeding and automated manure cleaning. Manure from the farm is put through a […]

By John Greig

Jun. 26, 2024 at 3:03 pm CDT

Brian Osterndorff, chair of the board of the Canadian Equipment Dealers Association, and president and CEO of Robert’s Farm Equipment, a seven-store group in Ontario, said on June 26 that they had just been informed that they could use the system again.

By Geralyn Wichers, John Greig

Jun. 25, 2024 at 5:45 pm CDT

CDK provides business management software to dealers of all makes of farm equipment, so major dealers of John Deere, CNH and are working without digital systems across the country. CDK is also the leading provider of management software to automobile dealers and thousands of those dealerships are offline.

By Geralyn Wichers, John Greig

Jun. 21, 2024 at 9:17 am CDT

There’s palpable frustration on farms in Europe and it’s spilling from the countryside into political action – and success. The BoerBurgerBeweging (BBB) in the Netherlands, also known as the Farmer-Citizen Movement, has in five years grown from grassroots to gaining the largest percentage of votes in the Netherlands provincial elections […]

By John Greig