About 550 exhibitors are set up at a Farm Expo 15 minutes northwest of Saskatoon.
Ag in Motion opens the gates Tuesday morning at the Discovery Farms Langham and runs through Thursdays.
“We are welcoming familiar faces as well as those exploring our showgrounds for the first time. We have all been looking forward to this week, and we are thrilled to see the site come to life once again with a total of 543 exhibitors,” said show director Rob O’Connor.
Some of the events taking place at the expo are equipment demonstrations of autonomous machinery, crop plots demonstrations with new seed varieties and protection products, speakers on industry topics and exhibits at the BMO Livestock Central.
“What we have all been eagerly waiting for is to see each other again in person. Special events at Ag in Motion are designed to help re-connect existing connections and forge new ones, and we are more excited than ever to offer these programs to the gathering farming community. ,
One of the exhibitors at the event, Owen Kinch, president of Mojo Autonomous Solutions, said they are trying to address the labor shortage seen in the agriculture industry.
“Digital farming is the use of cameras and computer vision to understand what’s in those images so that computers can do the work of humans.”
Kinch said he believes his technology will create more autonomy for farmers.
Gary Lewis, the inventor of Bio-Active, said he is showing a fusion tank for tractors that takes emissions from diesel fuel and turns it into fertilizer for crops.
“We found that diesel fuel contains microbes and bio-diesel, and they come alive in our fusion tanks. And we’re adding some other fermenting microbes and various organisms that survive heat and temperature. It actually controls pathogens, but when we wrap it on a crop it actually goes into the leaf of a plant and stops the heat blast.”
Lewis said it helps the environment, but will also help reduce costs for farmers.
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