Field vegetable growers in Québec and Ontario have improved efficiencies with an intelligent weeder manufactured by Dutch company Steketee.

Valley Irrigation completes the company’s first solar-powered pivot in Davenport, Nebraska. It’s their first in North America. The Tier 1 solar panels are built to withstand the often-harsh conditions.

Sulvaris is the recipient of almost $1.7 million in federal funding to further develop high-efficiency fertilizers. The Calgary-based company converts various forms of organic waste into fertilizers that are rich in slow-release nutrients.

Three demonstrations of AgRobotics will be hosted at Dresden, Kettleby and Bothwell in late June and early July 2022. No registration is required says organizer Kristen Obeid, OMAFRA weed management specialist for horticulture.

Organifarms wins the Concept Award for BERRY, its harvesting robot for greenhouse-grown strawberries and Biobest wins the Innovation Award for its Micromus-System, a generalist predator for protected crops in the 2022 GreenTech Innovation Awards in…