EMILI is a member of the Pan-Canadian Smart Farm Network, a network of smart farms that work collaboratively to support Canada’s agriculture sector to enhance efficiency, sustainability, and resilience in response to emerging opportunities and challenges.
The Pan-Canadian Smart Farm Network fosters collaboration among researchers, producers, industry partners, and other stakeholders nationwide to drive innovative projects that address critical issues in ag tech development and adoption. The network facilitates knowledge exchange and capacity building, and serves as a platform for real-world testing and validation of new technologies.
Jacqueline Keena and Joy Agnew at Inventures 2023
Joining the Pan-Canadian Smart Farm Network brings the opportunity for EMILI to be part of a community with a shared purpose and values around advancing Canadian agriculture, as well as sharing best practices and findings across diverse agricultural regions in Canada. EMILI’s Innovation Farms Powered by AgExpert is a 5,500 acre full-scale, commercial farming operation that helps expand the Pan-Canadian Smart Farm Network into Manitoba as it pertains to dry land crop production, and is an additional voice to share research findings with the industry across the Prairies. The farm is a fully sensored seed farm that provides innovators across industry and academia access to leading-edge equipment, technology, and production practices in order to develop viable solutions to the diverse agronomic and technological constraints and opportunities farmers face.
With funding from the Canadian Agri-Food Automation and Intelligence Network (CAAIN), the Pan-Canadian Smart Farm Network initiative will accelerate the development and adoption of ag technologies and systems, helping producers manage their risk of production to improve the productivity and sustainability of their farms.
