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Artificial intelligence is digging footholds in agriculture and agribusiness, from crop and herd monitoring to traceability and weed management. For one

An app that speeds up the grain grading process for farmers is gaining momentum, in large part to support from the Canadian Agri-Food Automation and Intelligence Network (CAAIN). It's called GeoAI and with a snap of a photo it can determine the quality of your grain. The only downside, for now, i

Canada exports over half of its processed beef and 70% of its pork to international markets

The Canadian Agri-Food Automation and Intelligence Network has appointed former Edmonton Unlimited vice president Darrell Petras as its new CEO.

What if letting people play together in virtual reality helped you better understand how they would work together? That's the idea behind AlignVR, an Edmonton company founded by Alex and Nathaniel Rossol after fun and games led to an unexpected insight.

When G2V Optics was born in 2015, it seemed like its destiny lay with indoor farming — after all, what better use of "engineered sunlight" than to grow things? As it turned out, the better use case for the company's technology was in areas such as photovoltaic research and aerospace. Learn more on Episode 21 of Bloom.