Digital agriculture needs focus on farm-level practicalities (The Western Producer)

EMILI recently collaborated with CAPI on a report highlighting recommendations to increase the adoption of digital agriculture.

The CAPI-EMILI report consciously focused on policy recommendations for government that would help encourage farmer adoption versus the wider ag tech ecosystem, said Dan Lussier, director of the Canadian Agri-Food Data Initiative based at EMILI, and one of the report’s authors.

“It’s really about building those bridges between some of the promise and some of the on-farm realities, so that that a new idea and a new practice can find its way into full flight, into full adoption,” he said.

Read the full article published May 30, 2025 in The Western Producer.