RR2CS

OCTOBER 20, 2022

We’re celebrating a pretty cool milestone – 50 podcast episodes! This episode is all about reflecting on the past and anticipating the future. We’ve covered so many great topics and had the most amazing speakers join us. While we can’t highlight or cover it all in our “podcast tour”, we picked ones that impacted the podcast’s trajectory. Since it took us 5 years to reach this milestone, we also wanted to look into the future and predict where regenerative agriculture in Alberta would be in

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Agritecture Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Agritecture’s Founder and CEO, Henry Gordon-Smith. Editor’s Note: Urban agriculture is very important to us at Agritecture, as it makes cities more green while also providing food to the local community. This article features Henry Gordon-Smith , our Founder and CEO, in a dialogue on how to make cities greener while also increasing food security for their residents.

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Agribusiness Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2022

We have done a post on this already but continue to get some emails and feedback asking why a farmer can’t defer Phase 1 payments of the Emergency Relief Program (ERP) to 2023. These types of payments are similar to crop insurance and yes, they can normally be deferred one year but let’s review the three key requirements to defer crop insurance proceeds: Farmer is on the cash method of accounting (almost all are), Farmer normally reports more than 50% of total sales in the year after

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Caff

OCTOBER 19, 2022

This year for the first time in his farming career, Donald Sherman made a sale to a school district. Mr. Sherman has been interested in providing fresh produce to local schools in Fresno where he resides and also farms for years, but he has had to wait over 30 years to finally be able to say he has done it. This accomplishment was not achieved in a vacuum or by accident as Mr.

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RR2CS

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Until fairly recently, women were rarely seen at the forefront of the farming and ranching industry. You could find them in the background, behind the scenes, and usually not in decision-making roles. However, if you’ve had the chance to spend any amount of time on an Alberta farm in the last 100 years, it wouldn’t take you long to find out that they were at the heart and soul of nearly every operation.

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Farming Secrets

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Source: Pexels LiDAR is a term for “Light Detection and Ranging” which refers to using lasers to collect data. The aerial imaging data about the surface is processed into 3D models that are studied by the team. Hence, researchers put LiDAR on drones which gave birth to forest and agricultural drones. Drone services won’t miss […] The post How LiDAR Drones are Used in Agriculture and Forestry Management appeared first on Farming Secrets.

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Agritecture Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2022

LED lighting is an important aspect of indoor farming operations, but it consumes energy, contributing to a farm’s overall costs. Credit: GreenBiz. The 2021 Global CEA Census Report revealed that at least 38% of greenhouses and vertical farms don't track their energy use. The findings further showed disparities in the regional tracking of energy use, indicating that the Americas trailed behind Asia and Europe, which are emphasizing energy tracking at higher rates.

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EOS

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Smart farming is the future of agriculture. Smart farming techniques increase production efficiency, reduce costs, and contribute to nature protection.

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