Future of farming: How new technologies are transforming Alberta agriculture

Over 1,000 people came out to Northlands to learn about farming technology Tuesday night.

More than 1,000 farmers came out to the first day of a three-day Edmonton agriculture conference to learn about how new technologies can make their livelihoods more efficient.
The FarmTech event at Northlands featured innovations such as Climate FieldView, a new digital agriculture software recently launched in Western Canada. It aims to help farmers make better decisions out in the field.
"Farmers have to make 40 to 50 decisions every year on each individual field," said Denise Hockaday, the Canada business lead for the Climate Corporation, which is hosting the event. "You multiply that over many, many fields that they have — it's a ton of decisions and it's not always easy to be informed when you make those decisions," she added.
"We are given the ability to visualize what's going on with the crop over the course of the season."
That data can include diseases in their crops which might otherwise only be detected at the end of the growing season.
"They can go and do something about it in-season, as opposed to finding out at the end of the season that they've had damage or no crop at all." continue reading

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