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AgriFORCE Advances Power & Compute Strategy with Commissioning of Oyen Site for Load Testing

AgriFORCE Growing Systems Ltd. (NASDAQ: AGRI) (“AgriFORCE” or the “Company”), a technology and infrastructure firm operating at the intersection of clean energy and digital compute, today announced the successful installation and commissioning of miners at its future Oyen, Alberta site. This development marks a significant step in the Company's Power & Compute Initiative, following the launch of its first decentralized site in Berwyn, Alberta.

The Oyen site, part of a binding Letter of Intent (LOI) with BlueFlare Energy™ Solutions Inc., is one of two new locations in Alberta identified for expansion. The commissioning of miners at Oyen is intended for load testing purposes, ensuring optimal performance and integration with the Company's modular, natural gas-powered compute infrastructure. Full operation of the site will require completion of required steps including completion of acquisition of miners to be installed.

"The commissioning of miners at our Oyen site underscores our commitment to expanding our decentralized computing capabilities," said Jolie Kahn, CEO of AgriFORCE. "By utilizing underused natural gas resources, we not only enhance our operational efficiency but also contribute to our Bitcoin treasury through self-mined BTC."

This strategic move aligns with AgriFORCE's three-pronged approach: Bitcoin treasury accumulation, modular compute infrastructure, and energy-first monetization. The Oyen site's development facilitates the Company's ability to forge relationships with gas providers, potentially unlocking access to larger sites and furthering its mission to convert stranded gas into scalable digital assets and decentralized AI-ready infrastructure.

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Western Canadian Agriculture: Hard Times Made the World's Best Farmers

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Western Canadian agriculture produced the most advanced farmers in the world not through abundance but through adversity. The crow rate fell. The wheat price went nowhere. The brown envelopes stopped.

When the subsidies disappeared, the bad farmers left and the good ones stayed. And the ones who stayed could not just grow wheat anymore. They started growing lentils and canola and peas and flax and faba beans. They built crop rotation. They got serious about agronomy because there was no government backstop. That process produced the Western Canadian agriculture Dennis Bulani describes in this clip: the most advanced, most educated farming culture in the world.

His contrast with Iowa corn and soybean farmers is sharp. At a DeKalb farmer meeting in Okoboji, Iowa, he asked what crop rotation they ran. Beans on corn stubble, corn on bean stubble. How do you fertilize? The co-op agronomist handles it. Have you considered other crops? No need. We make so much money on corn and soybeans. Western Canadian agriculture was never allowed that comfort. And now those Iowa farmers are watching soybean markets lock up with China and corn prices slide, and they do not have the agronomy knowledge or the research base to pivot. Western Canadian farmers adapted on a dime because they had done it before.

Dennis also makes the case that Western Canadian agriculture keeps adapting in real time. Low commodity prices over the past year have pushed growers to look seriously at precision spot-spray technology. He knows a neighbor who bought a sprayer with the seeing-eye system and sprayed only 80 out of 320 acres. As a chemical retailer Dennis acknowledges that will affect his sales. He supports it anyway, because if it advances Canadian agriculture and makes farmers money, that is a good outcome.

The lesson Dennis draws from the tale of two farms: continuous improvement is the only durable strategy. When canola was $22 a bushel some growers went to Arizona instead of the Crop Production Show. When the price came down those same growers came back to the research and the discipline. Products do not go on Rack Petroleum's shelves unless they pass a replicated trial first. That is what Western Canadian agriculture built through hard times: farmers who do the work whether the times demand it or not.

Dennis Bulani is CEO of Rack Petroleum and Ultimate Yield in Biggar, Saskatchewan. Dan Aberhart hosts GTF Productions, Western Canadian Agriculture's foremost live briefing platform and its foremost AI training platform for ag operators