Insights and Stories on Farmers Edge

Farmers Edge disputes merits of claim made by former investors

Jun. 21, 2024 at 9:14 am CDT

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. 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.

Former investors seek class action lawsuit against Farmers Edge

Jun. 18, 2024 at 4:55 pm CDT

By Geralyn Wichers

Farmers Edge owner Fairfax Financial shorted on alleged asset manipulation

Feb. 9, 2024 at 10:23 am CST

By Reuters

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

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

Self-checking field health mapping system launched

Oct. 31, 2018 at 9:31 am CDT

The farmer’s job of poring over satellite field maps looking for disease, weed and insect trouble is about to go automatic. Winnipeg-based digital ag consulting firm Farmers Edge recently released Health Change Maps and Notifications, a new function that automatically scans the company’s daily satellite imagery and alerts growers of […]

By GFM Staff

Adding an agronomist to your farm team

Nov. 7, 2017 at 11:23 am CST

As farming gets more complicated a growing number of companies are helping out. One place to turn is your local independent retailer, or an agronomist.

By Leeann Minogue

Farmers Edge expands satellite imagery offering

Oct. 11, 2017 at 11:12 am CDT

Farmers Edge says it’s making satellite imagery a practical and affordable agronomic tool for farmers through a new strategic partnership with Planet, the company with the largest fleet of Earth-imaging satellites. “We think this will be game-changing,” Farmers Edge president and CEO Wade Barnes said in an interview Oct. 3. […]

By Allan Dawson

Major investment to build Farmers Edge’s data power

Jan. 27, 2016 at 5:20 pm CST

Canadian precision agronomy and farm data management firm Farmers Edge plans to keep taking its services to previously underserved acres around the world, with a major cash infusion from a group of its backers. Japanese commodities trading and investment firm Mitsui, Toronto commercial real estate company Osmington and the Green […]

By Dave Bedard

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