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The Western Producer

Someone needs to talk tough on trade — Canada, anyone?

Canada is good at building coalitions and consensus. Maybe it’s time to get tougher. “Why are you so concerned about upsetting people?” posed CropLife International President Emily Rees at the Canadian Crops Convention. Canada could benefit from being “a little less sorry and not having the same fear of upsetting trade partners and being a...

March 14, 2024

The Western Producer

Canada urged to take stronger leadership role in trade

It’s time for Canada to step up if it wants to keep the rules-based trading order alive, farmers heard at the Canadian Crops Convention. Without rules-based trade, agricultural exporters will be playing in a game controlled by others. “Canada should play a bigger and stronger role,” said Emily Rees, president of CropLife International, which represents...

March 14, 2024

The Western Producer

Women given chance to learn about railroading

Janet Drysdale is a prominent woman in the railroading world. However, she'd rather not be exceptional for being a woman. "In order to be able to grow … we have to be able to attract more diversity," Drysdale, a vice-president with Canadian National Railway, said in an interview at the beginning of the Canadian Crops...

March 7, 2024

Manitoba Co-operator

EMILI launches free ag data course

A Winnipeg-based organization promoting the adoption of ag technology has launched a free, online course to help farmers build knowledge and skills around agricultural and farm data. “We hope that it equips farmers with the right questions when it comes to farm data and digital technologies,” said Dan Lussier, director of EMILI’s Canadian Agri-food Data...

February 9, 2024

Grainews

Testing high-tech at farm scale

High-tech innovations aimed at improving farming are being developed all the time — and while there are always some producers keen to try out new tech, that’s certainly not the case for everyone. Many farmers will prefer to wait and see — which is where places like Innovation Farms come in. Enterprise Machine Intelligence and...

January 8, 2024

Manitoba Co-operator

The roadblocks to digital agriculture

You’d be hard-pressed to find a farmer who has bought into digital agriculture more than Rick Rutherford has. The seed grower and owner of Rutherford Farms has spent over a decade collecting data on his operation northwest of Winnipeg near Grosse Isle. He’s partnered with digital ag accelerator EMILI (Enterprise Machine Intelligence and Learning Initiative)...

November 9, 2023