Insights and Stories on Digital Farming

A third of agricultural jobs could be automated in next decade, report says

Aug. 16, 2024 at 3:56 pm CDT

One third of agricultural jobs could be automated in the next decade according to a recent report from the Conference Board of Canada.

Farmers Edge to go private three years after IPO

Jan. 23, 2024 at 10:16 am CST

By Geralyn Wichers

Farmers Edge considering privatization

Nov. 27, 2023 at 1:59 pm CST

By Glacier FarmMedia

People visit crop plots at Discovery Farm Woodstock

Discovery Farm Woodstock joins Pan-Canadian Smart Farm Network

Aug. 8, 2023 at 9:14 am CDT

By Glacier FarmMedia

At Ag in Motion: Find a purpose, then buy tech, Prairie grower says

Jul. 18, 2023 at 5:55 pm CDT

By Jeff Melchior

Automated ag skills program developed for Saskatchewan workforce

May. 20, 2022 at 8:28 pm CDT

Corrected, May 24 — A national skills-building organization focused on connecting employers with “untapped” labour markets sets its webcams this summer on the automated and digital ag sectors. Not-for-profit organization Palette Skills has launched a new eight-week online program for Saskatchewan residents focused on automation and digitization in agricultural production […]

By GFM Staff

Farmers Edge launches IPO

Mar. 3, 2021 at 5:03 pm CST

Manitoba’s best-known digital agriculture firm is now a publicly-traded company. Farmers Edge, founded in 2005 in Pilot Mound, Man. by agronomists Wade Barnes and Curtis MacKinnon, has carved out a niche using field-centric data, artificial intelligence and its FarmCommand data management platform. CEO Wade Barnes called it an exciting day […]

By Gord Gilmour

Bayer to invest $7.5 billion in new herbicides

Jun. 14, 2019 at 3:08 am CDT

Berlin | Reuters — Bayer said it would invest five billion euros (C$7.5 billion) in developing new weedkillers and reducing its environmental impact by 30 per cent by 2030, as it seeks to address the fallout from U.S. class-action litigation over glyphosate. “While glyphosate will continue to play an important […]

By Reuters

Canada clears Bayer’s Monsanto play, with conditions

May. 31, 2018 at 8:04 pm CDT

Canada’s Competition Bureau says it’s “actively reviewing” BASF’s suitability as a buyer of the crop seed and chemical assets Bayer has to sell to get the bureau’s blessing to buy Monsanto. The Competition Bureau said Wednesday it has an agreement with Bayer to deal with “concerns that the proposed transaction […]

By Staff

Bayer to sell digital farming business to BASF

Apr. 11, 2018 at 9:04 pm CDT

Frankfurt | Reuters — Germany’s Bayer plans to sell its digital farming business to BASF as part of changes to concessions it has offered to win over antitrust regulators for its proposed takeover of Monsanto . Bayer, which had previously only agreed to grant a licence to competitors, said on […]

By Ludwig Burger