In this Innovation Farms Podcast we talk with Robert McMillan, Sector Manager Agri-food at Ontario Centre of Innovations about OCI's new Challenge Statement of Advancing AI-Driven Transformation and Sector Leadership.
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Hassan from the Innovation Farms Ontario team shares an update on research work with the Naio robotic system weeding in the vineyards rows.
Dexter, an intern with Innovation Farms Ontario discusses his research projects: FarmDroid Automated seeding and weeding in onions. Nexus Robotics system tested on farm for weed control. Using the Picketa system for measuring crop nutrition and fertilizer needs.
Jing, a business intern from Western University’s IVEY Business School working at the Innovation Farms Ontario presents his research. Jing provides his approach on how to calculate a ROI for a specific farm operation for a robot or innovation.
Thomas, research and technician supervisor, goes through some of his summer projects. The projects were using imagery and an AI algorithm to scout for weeds in fields, creating a boom to support cameras on the robots and working with the Naio Oz to increase battery life.
Kate Baresich from the Innovation Farms Ontario team provides an overview on the digital marketing plan used to share information with farmers and the Agtech ecosystem.