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2017 Conference Speakers 

 Wade Barnes

Wade Barnes, President & CEO, Farmers Edge 

 

As one of the foremost agronomists in North America, Wade Barnes is a pioneer in the Precision Agriculture movement. Raised as a grower in rural Manitoba, Canada, Wade founded Farmers Edge in 2005 and over the last decade has expanded both the company and the range of grower-based solutions Farmers Edge offers to encompass 4 continents and 5 countries. Leading a team of 250+ dedicated precision agronomists, technology innovators, and sustainability experts, Wade is focused on increasing sustainable farm yields to feed the world’s 9B by 2050

Jacques Nault

Jacques Nault, Vice President Agronomy, LaserAg – Logiag Inc.

 

Jacques Nault has a BSc. and a MSc. from the Macdonald Campus of McGill University. He started off his agronomic career in 1984. Between 1984 and 1999 he participated in various research relating to soil management and best management practices, wrote technical guides pertaining to soil fertilization and erosion control, and worked as a consultant with farmers. In 1999 he co-founded LogiAg, where he supervises field technical services and is in charge of business development. Between 2004 and 2014 he was also the general manager of a U.S. consulting firm that he partly owned.

Dr. Vicheslav Adamchuck

Dr. Viacheslav Adamchuk, Associate Professor, McGill University

 

Dr. Adamchuk is an associate professor in the Department of Bioresource Engineering at McGill University (Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec, Canada) and an adjunct associate professor in the Department of Biological Systems Engineering at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (Lincoln, Nebraska, USA). He leads a Precision Agriculture and Sensor Systems (PASS) research team that focuses on the development and deployment of proximal soil and crop sensing technologies to enhance the economic and environmental benefits of precision agriculture. Since he began his research in the mid 90s, Dr. Adamchuk developed and evaluated a fleet of on-the-go soil sensor prototypes capable of mapping physical and chemical soil attributes while moving across an agricultural field. These sensors produce geo-referenced data to quantify spatial soil heterogeneity, which may be used to prescribe differentiated soil treatments according to local needs. Along with his work on sensors, Dr. Adamchuk has conducted numeric analysis of the agro-economic value of sensor-based information to aid in the successful deployment of emerging on-the-go sensing technology. Through studies on soil and crop sensor fusion and data clustering, he was able to further investigate the challenges faced by early adopters. Through his outreach activities, Dr. Adamchuk has taught a number of programs dedicated to a systems approach in adopting smart farming technologies around the world. These include active involvement in standards development, setting up pilot commercial projects and emphasis on the system approach to the evolution of agricultural production complex. 

 

Greg was one of the principal founding members of our company and is currently President and acts as the chief agronomist. His primary role is corporate administration, and customer support and service. With an honours agriculture degree from the University of Guelph, followed by over twenty years postgraduate experience as a professional agronomist Greg works closely with all our agricultural clients to support the service we provide. Greg also was one of the first people in Canada to earn the designate as a Certified Crop Consultant. As part of our ongoing customer support Greg personally conducts in depth agronomy and fertility training seminars for field, horticultural, and specialty (Turf, Viticulture, and Silviculture) crops. Contact at e-mail: patterson@alcanada.com

Lisa Prassack

 

Lisa Prassack has over 20 years of experience working with big data analytics. She specializes in working in tandem with innovators by providing critical market understanding with data-intensive solutions. She previously worked as the Trimble Agriculture Strategic Marketing Director and was responsible for the precision farming strategy, planning and M&A as well as global strategic partnerships with a number of agricultural companies.

Iaroslav Boiko

Iaroslav Boiko, Director & Co-Founder - AgriLabs, Ukraine

 

Iaroslav Boiko is the director and co-founder of AgriLabs Ukraine. He has a PhD of agricultural sciences, and is the official representative of International Society of Agriculture community in Ukraine. 
 

Iaroslav has been studying and embodying innovations in practice and resource-saving technologies into agriculture, in particular elements of precision agriculture. He has implemented modern technologies of soil fertility monitoring in Ukraine: measurement of soil conductance, automated system of GPS –sampling, measurement and creation of field relief models, plant nutrition diagnostics and other. Iaroslav Boiko has differentiated fertilization of liquid nitrogen was implemented on the mineralization of plant remains for the first time in Ukraine.
 

Iaroslav is the author of over 50 scientics studies, and has been collaborating with scientists and specialists at the Nebraska-Lincon Universitysince 2009. In 2011 he presented practical results on usage of modern technologies for soil monitoring at the European International Conference of Precision Agriculture and in 2012 he spoke at the International Conference of Precision Agriculture in Indianapolis. 

Steve Redmond
 

Steve Redmond, Precision Ag Specialist, Hensall District Co-operative

 

Steve is the Precision Ag Specialist with Hensall District Co-op. He has led HDC’s efforts with the use of GreenSeeker technology for late-season nitrogen applications in corn using Y-Drops, since 2014. He has owned and operated two different UAV’s for aerial imagery of farm fields and is currently investigating the use of satellite imagery through Winfield’s R7 Tool for the creation of crop management zones and the development of profitability maps.
Steve is a graduate of the University of Guelph with a BSc (Agr), holds designations as a CCA (1997), Professional Agrologist in Ontario and Nutrient Management Planning certificates for ASM & NASM.

Mike Duncan
 

Mike Duncan, NSERC Industrial Research Chair In Precision Agriculture& Environmental Technologies, Niagara College Canada

 

Dr. Duncan and his team have developed a variety of web applications that provide real-time data, mapping, map analysis, and value added services for farmers. Currently, the team's Precision Agriculture work is at the stage where it can be applied with growers and grower consultants to increase their productivity and competitiveness. To properly apply and test precision agriculture theories, Dr. Duncan's group is involved with the GFO, and OMAFRA researchers on a project with 30 growers. A state of the art server and disk system is being used to implement a software system to process their data and test definitions of management zones. The system is being designed to provide quick turnarounds prior to applying inputs to their fields. At the end of the project, the algorithms and the system will be developed into a semi-automated entity that has the capacity to process data from thousands of farms in a timely manner.

Nicole Rabe
 

Nicole Rabe, Land Resource Specialist, OMAFRA

 

Nicole has a M.Sc. focused on Precision Agriculture and is currently the Land Resource Specialist (Environmental Management Branch) for OMAFRA. Having worked in Precision ag throughout her career in ON, AB, & MB, Nicole has a background in applying Geographic Information Systems and Remote Sensing for agricultural applications. Nicole enjoys collaboration with Agriculture Development Branch colleagues on many different aspects of precision agriculture and soil resource management work.

Mark Brock, Co-Owner, Shepherd Creek Farms Ltd

 

Mark along with his wife Sandi own and operate Shepherd Creek Farms Ltd. located in Staffa, Ontario.  They farm 1,600 acres of corn, soybeans, and wheat along with lamb raised for the Ontario market.  Mark is an early adopter of new farm technologies and believes precision agriculture is the key to the future success of Canadian farms.  Mark is also actively involved with the Grain Farmers of Ontario and is currently serving as Chair for the board of directors. Mark and Sandi, have two children, Jackson and Jessica.

Paul Raymer
 

Paul Raymer, Co-owner, Practical Precision Inc

 

Paul grew up on a dairy farm in Oxford County, and is a Mechanical Engineer graduate. He has over 10 years of engineering experience with 7 of those being with John Deere Research & Development. In 2010 Paul partnered with this parents to form Practical Precision, primarily a reseller of various precision agriculture lines like, Trimble & 360 Yield Center. Paul was key in placing Greenseeker "on the map" in Ontario and first introduced Y-Drop to the Canadian market. Paul is currently focusing on the enhanced development & education of the benefits of high resolution soil mapping technology called SoilOptix®.

Mike Wilson, CCA, Affiliate Program Lead, VERITAS 

 

Topic: Creating Success from Agronomic Data

 

Mike was born and raised on a cash crop farm in the heart of Kent County close to the City of Chatham. Mike has a very strong love for the family farm and works with his father and uncle on the farm today. Mike attended the University of Guelph Ridgetown Campus where he obtained his Diploma in Agriculture in 2001.  He went on to earn his Certified Crop Advisor certification in 2006.   After graduation, Mike began work in the Ag Retail sector where he consulted with farm customers for 12 years throughout Essex, Kent and Lambton Counties, developing a real passion for precision agriculture.   In 2014 Mike was promoted to the position of Manager of Advanced Agronomy Solutions for this retailer, where he worked with the Retail Sales Team and their customers across Ontario expanding their precision ag offerings. In November of 2016, Mike joined VERITAS in the role of Affiliate Program Lead, to create, coach, and support an agronomic and precision solutions offering for a growing network of Veritas Affiliate Partners. Mikes passion for agriculture, his invaluable hands-on experience, and his strong practical knowledge of agronomy and precision farming allow him to effectively communicate-with and create solutions-for our customers.

 Jason Webster

Jason Webster, Agronomist, Precision Planting


Jason Webster is a leading precision agronomist & farmers from Central Illinois. Jason is a key researcher and educator for the Precision Planting team. His expertise lay in the agronomic and profit impacts of different farming practices. 

 Norm Lamothe

Norm Lamothe, Head – UAS Agriculture, Deveron UAS Ltd,


Norm Lamothe is the Co-founder of Deveron UAS, a drone data service company focused on agriculture.  Norm is leading Deveron’s growth as it builds North America’s largest constellation of drones to bring a scalable solution to near, real-time, on-demand field level data collection.  Working with Deveron allows farming’s most important leaders to focus on delivering insight from data rather than collecting it.  Norm spent his early career in aviation and now manages his family’s 500 acre farm in eastern Ontario.  N.

Paul Schrimpf

Paul Schrimpf, Executive Editor, Agribusiness Group, Meister Media Worldwide

 

Paul Schrimpf oversees the content development for the following brands: CropLife, PrecisionAg, and Farm Chemicals International. He work closely with publishers developing business strategy. He has more than 15 years of experience covering technology advancements in agriculture. Paul creates and delivers presentations on topics related to precision agriculture across the North America.

Jason Tatge

Rick Willemse, Cash Crop Farmer, Parkhill, Ontario

 

Rick Willemse is a Cash Crop Farmer from Parkhill, Ontario. In the mid 1980’s he began using Rate Control to sidedress nitrogen and then progressed to Yield Monitoring in the mid 1990’s where he married the two technologies together. This led to a co-operative effort with OMAFRA and The University of Guelph in researching better ways to implement Nitrogen rates on Corn. This experience evolved into an interest in creating management zones within a field. By 2008 he had created an algorithm to vary fertility based on micro-zones within a field. Since 2011, in collaboration with Niagara College, he has been working toward further developing this technology for commercialization.

Dr. Gideon Avigad PhD

Dr. Gideon Avigad, PhD Research Program Leader, Robotics & Automation, Vineland Research 

 

Topic: Opportunities and Challenges for Enhancing Productivity Through Precision Horticulture

 

In 2014, Dr. Gideon Avigad became the Research Program Leader - Robotics & Automation at Vineland Research and Innovation Centre (Vineland), located in Canada’s Niagara Region. Before joining Vineland, he was a visiting and adjunct professor at Western University, where he had the opportunity to further expand his research collaborations across Western University, other Canadian universities and the industry. Prior to moving to Canada, Gideon held a tenure appointment in the Mechanical Engineering Department, Braude College of Engineering, Israel where he taught control and mechatronics-related courses and led many robotics R&D projects. His research is focused on evolutionary multi-objective optimization, especially as related to optimizing solutions to problems that involve uncertainties. Currently, he leads ten robotics and automation projects that address the needs of the horticulture industry and advances Canada's research and commercialization agenda. Among these projects are robotic mushroom harvester, hyperspectral-based smart irrigation and automated disease detection systems. Several automated packaging and transplanting machines, developed by his group, are under commercialization. 

Trevor McDonald, Pre Sales Engineer, Planet

 

Trevor is Pre Sales Engineer at Planet where he provides technical solutions to fulfill customers needs. He previously worked at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) on developing a data pipeline and access to evapotranspiration products. 

Trevor holds a B.A. in Geography - Environmental Studies with an emphasis in GIS & Remote Sensing from University of California, Los Angeles

 

David McMillan, President & CEO, Director of Deveron UAS

 

David MacMillan is the Co-founder of Deveron UAS, a drone data service company focused on agriculture.  He is a public venture capital entrepreneur that has successfully raised over $30 million in debt and equity for early stage companies.  Deveron is building North America’s largest constellation of drones to bring a scalable solution to near, real-time, on-demand field level data collection.  David holds a BA from McGill University and an MSc in Economics from the University of Glasgow.

Dale Cowan

Dale Cowan, CCA Senior Agronomist / Sales Manager, AGRIS & Wantsead Co-Operatives

 

A graduate of the University of Guelph with a diploma in Agribusiness 1975 & BSc in Crop Science in 1978

 


Dale is a 36 year veteran of the Agribusiness industry in Ontario and has a strong background in Crop Product and Soil Fertility practices. Dale is a leading advocate in the use of Precision Agriculture Technologies and information utilization. He has always on the leading edge of emerging technologies throughout his career. He is never standing still, he is always looking for better ways to increase grower profits

 
Denise Hackaday

Denise Hockaday, Climate Commerical Lead - Canada, Climate Corporation

 

Topic: Plug n' Play: Getting Started with Climate FieldView TM

 

Denise is responsible for the Canadian launch and growth of the commercial business for The Climate Corporation, a subsidiary of Monsanto, which aims to help farmers increase yields and reduce risk through Climate FieldView™ insights and decision tools. Denise has been with Monsanto since 2003 and most recently served as the DEKALB Business Lead for Canada. She has also held roles in field research, operations and marketing management.

 

Involved in ag industry and education programs, Denise has served as a Monsanto designate for Soy Canada, is past president of the Canadian Agri-Marketing Association, and participates in the University of Guelph MBA program as an industry resource as well as University of Guelph Student Mentoring opportunities. 

 

Denise grew up on a dairy farm in eastern Ontario and was actively involved in her farming community. Today, she lives in Waterloo, Ontario with her husband and their children, who keep them busy with their many sporting activities.

Dr. Karen Hand

Dr. Karen Hand, Director, Ontario Precision Agri-Food

 

Topic: OPAF - Facilitating Collaboration in Agri-Food

 

Dr. Karen Hand, PhD is a leading consultant and researcher in the field of biostatistics and Director of OPAF (Ontario Precision Agri-Food). She led the team that performed an in-depth cross-commodity user needs analysis for accelerating the adoption of precision agri-food on Ontario and co-developed the vision for OPAF.

 

Dr. Hand has been involved in numerous projects involving analysis and management of Canadian agri-food data, including the design and implementation of a porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS) and porcine epidemic diarrhea (PED) database with interactive web-based mapping for disease surveillance, analysis and detection of underlying disease transmission and geospatial analysis of Canadian dairy data. In addition, Dr. Hand continues to participate in the development of global data standards for the dairy industry for the International Committee for Animal Recording (ICAR).

Chris Paterson

Chris Paterson, Digitial Farming Lead for Canada, Bayer CropScience

 

Topic: Insights into Macro-Trends That Are Impacting Techonolgoy Adoption in Farming

 

Chris Paterson is the Lead for Bayer’s Digital Farming initiative in Canada.  Before joining Bayer, Chris has been immersed into the North American AgTech space for more than ten years.  Chris relies on his background as a farmer, an ag retailer, a consulting agronomist, and a crop inputs marketer in several continents for insight into choosing the right technologies to best support the fundamentals of agronomy, business, and logistics .   Outside of work, Chris has traveled through more than 30 countries, and especially likes to travel by motorcycle.

Eric Richter

Eric Richter, Agronomic Sales Representative, Syngenta Canada

 

Raised on a farm in Ottawa Valley in Eastern Ontario, Eric attended the University of Guelph and graduated 1984 with a B.Sc. in Agriculture.

He started with Syngenta (legacy company Northrup King), in 1984 as a Research Agronomist.  Other positions within Syngenta have included: Research Farm Manager, Assistant Forage Breeder, District Sales Manager and Agronomic Sales Representative (ASR). He is currently a Certified Crop Advisor with the Ontario Chapter.

 

Eric has been married for 32 years to wife Cheryl, a retired teacher. They have one daughter, Shannon, a Registered Dietitian with Loblaw Companies Ltd.

 

As an ASR, Eric enjoys helping Syngenta customers grow the best possible crops by encouraging them to adopt Best Management Practices.  He is a strong proponent for growers to try new, innovative technologies and products to drive their yields and profitability forward.   He has recently developed a keen interest in soybeans, due in part to their inherently high degree of crop production complexity.  Eric is currently researching opportunities for Precision Ag soybean production systems, to enhance return on investment and overall profitability for Syngenta soybean growers.

His current hobbies center around an Off-Grid residence on Prince Edward Island.

Luke Zerby

Luke Zerby, Brand Marketing Manager-Precision Land Management, New Holland Corporation of North America

 

Topic: Developing Your Complete Solution - Machinery & Agronomy Working Together

 

Luke facilitates the implementation of New Holland’s Precision Land Management and associated tools across the entire product portfolio. Now in his fifth year with the company; Luke’s previous roles include Commercial Training Instructor and Territory Business Manager where he worked directly with dealers to develop marketing strategies to increase their sales. Growing up on a family livestock and hay farm led him to begin his, over 13 year career, in agriculture production and service. 

Jordan Tackett, Regional Sales Manager, MZB Technologies

 

Topic: Precision Farming

 

Jordan Tackett has a B.S. from Iowa State University and has been working with MZB technologies for 5 years. He started working with an MZB retailer in Southwest Iowa and is now the Regional Sales Manager for MZB. Jordan has been at the forefront of the MZB expansion into the lower Midwest, providing management support for ag retailers across SD, IA, NE, and KS, as well as overseeing advertising and marketing projects for MZB.

 

Over the past 20 years MZB has established itself an industry leading cloud-based decision ag system that helps increase retailer productivity and grower profitability. 

Felix Weber

Felix Weber, President, Agbusiness & Crop Inc.

 

For over 20 years, Felix has explored new technological and agricultural practices that would increase the productivity for clients of his consulting company, Ag Business and Crop Inc. and his own operation as well. While researching effective ways to monitor crops using aerial imagery, he became the distributor for senseFly products in Canada. He is presently working on research for Pix4D Switzerland in development in mosaicking and GIS software, ongoing projects with OMAFRA, and camera, colour and frequency research for different projects. As an early innovator of UAVs in agriculture, Felix has been a presenter at numerous agricultural events across the country. 

Nicole Rogers

Nicole Rogers, Founder/CEO Agriprocity

 

Nicole Rogers hails from one of the largest and oldest farming operations in Canada. Both her grandfather and father were innovators in the trading and marketing of agricultural outputs in Canada and internationally. 

 

Nicole founded Agriprocity, with a view to connecting farmers directly with importers and food processors in the agricultural import dependent Middle Eastern market. Nicole is committed to a consultative approach to trading, purposeful crop growing and a contractual focus that aims to best mitigate trading risk at both ends of the supply chain.

 

In addition to acting as the Principal of Agriprocity, Nicole has been appointed as a private sector delegate on the United Nations FAO panel on Near East Food Security. She also serves on the Advisory Board for Global AgInvesting Middle East.

Dr. Andrew Davidson

Dr. Andrew Davidson, Manager, Erath Observation - Centre for AgroClimate Geomatics & Earth Observation

 

Andrew is am currently the Manager of the Earth Observation group that operates within Agriculture Canada's Centre for AgroClimate, Geomatics and Earth Observation. We are responsible for conducting Agriculture Canada's operational space-based monitoring.

 

Andrew`s academic training is in Physical Geography. He earned a B.Sc from the Institute of Geography at the University of Edinburgh , and an M.Sc and a Ph.D. from the Department of Geography at the University of Toronto. Andrew has completed his post-doctoral studies in Ottawa at the Canada Centre for Remote Sensing , the Government of Canada's centre of excellence for remote sensing and geodesy.

Aaron Breimer

Aaron Breimer, Precision Ag Specialist, Veritas Farm Management Inc. 

 

Aaron Breimer was born and raised on a cash crop farm in northern Middlesex County close to the town of Ailsa Craig. Aaron attended the University of Guelph where he obtained his Honours, Bachelors of Science Agriculture. Following university, Aaron worked in the ag retail industry for 10 years with a territory that included part of Essex and Kent Counties. For the last 4 years, he has been working with Veritas as an agronomist and sales agronomist out of the Parkhill office.

Chuck Baresich, General Manager of Haggerty Creek Ltd.

 

Chuck has a B. Comm Ag Bus from the University of Guelph.  He and his brother Justin farm in the Bothwell area for the past 20 years, in a long term no-till / zone till system.

 

Precision Agriculture and technology has always been important to us, from the basics of equipment to steering and planter controls.

 

Chuck has been the General Manager of Haggerty Creek Ltd., since 2008, after leaving Farm Credit Canada after 13 years, his last posting as the Business Development Manager for the Essex, Kent and Lambton County area.

 

Chuck is married to his wife Heather, and they have two energetic children, Kate and Jane who love their farm life.

Menelaos (Manny) Argiropoulos, Chief, SME, Stakeholder Engagement, Public Services & Procurement Canada 

 

Topic: Overview of the Build in Canada Innovation Program

 

Chief, SME Stakeholder Engagement, Public Works and Government Services Canada (PWGSC) – Office of Small and Medium Enterprises (OSME), www.buyandsell.gc.ca and regionally, www.tpsgc-pwgsc.gc.ca/ontario/bpme-osme/

 

Mr. Menelaos (Manny) Argiropoulos has been working for Public Works and Government Services Canada, Ontario Region since 1991. He has held various positions, ranging from Real Estate Advisor to Geomatics Project Manager and is currently the Chief, SME Stakeholder Engagement with the Office of Small and Medium Enterprises (OSME). Mr. Argiropoulos is responsible for supplier outreach and engagement for OSME. He also delivers seminars that assist and inform suppliers in Ontario on how to do business with the Government of Canada, The Build in Canada Innovation Program, how to navigate the federal procurement system and how to utilize www.buyandsell.gc.ca , the federal procurement website.

Danny Jefferies, CCA, MSc. Data & Agronomy Consultant, Huron Tractor Ltd.

 

 

Topic: Remote But in Control

 

 

For 5 years, Danny has explored new technologies and practices for agriculture, to generate opportunities and enhance productivity for farmers. Over this time he has actively been involved with exploring the use of data management platforms, unmanned aerial vehicles, On-the-Go Sensors, and variable rate application of fertility and seeding. Danny works with Huron Tractor as a Data and Agronomy consultant. His main goal is to help customers utilize precision agriculture technology to its fullest capabilities. He actively works with customers to ensure accurate and clean data is collected, provides consulting to develop management zones, soil sampling zones, generate robust agronomic prescriptions, and provides support to validate prescriptions through profitability maps, and prescription response analysis.  Danny Jefferies has obtained his M.Sc. from the University of Guelph in Environmental Sciences (2014), and recently obtain his CCA certification (2015).

Jack Legg, Branch Manager, SGS Agri-Food Laboratories 

 

Jack Legg is the Branch Manger of SGS Agri-Food Laboratories, Guelph, and also serves as the staff agronomist.  Jack has been with Agri-Food Laboratories since 1996, and has been a Certified Crop Advisor since 1999.  Agronomic responsibilities include QC review of soil test reports, developing fertilizer plans, managing the field service staff (custom soil sampling and GPS mapping), as well as maintaining a sales role with dealer and farm customers.

 

Jack is also active in the industry serving on numerous committees, including Chair of Ontario Soil Management Research and Services Committee, Ontario Agri Business Association’s Soil and Research Committee, the OLPC Plant Biosecurity Advisory Panel and member of Certified Crop Advisors Board of Directors.

Jason Tatge, CEO & Co-Founder, Farmobile

 

Jason is a passionate, innovative and successful agri tech entrepreneur based in Kansas near Kansas City. Farmobile is Jason’s third company in technology and agriculture industry (first, he was an early team member with Farms.com and second company was President with Farms Technology which was sold to DuPont Pioneer in 2013). Prior to his entrepreneurial bug he traded agri commodities with the Pillsbury Company for 7 years. Farmobile’s business model and subscriptions are completely transparent and affordable to a fault. We are based in Kansas and have built this company from the ground up with hard work and nothing else to our name, except a love of agriculture, the ability to write code and a deep desire to do the right things for the right reasons while promoting progress in the global food chain.

Craig Cadman, VP of Operations, Cadman Power Equipment

 

Topic: Nutrient Applications in the Growing Season

 

Craig Cadman has been in the agriculture world for 20 years. He grew up in the family business where he has worked first hand and over seen the design and production of countless lines of irrigation and manure management equipment. Including travellers, irrigation booms, pumps, drag reels, manure booms, and more. Craig specializes in irrigation systems for sports fields and agriculture, manure application systems and high volume industrial water pumps.  With 20 years in the industry he has seen all the ins and outs of proper utilization of manure nutrients. He strongly believes that the CMA will be the solution to all the manure regulation issues we see today. For example, run-off, pollution, and how to properly utilize the nutrients in manure when injecting into the crop. The most recent project allows for the efficient use of nutrients in manure by allowing you to inject into a growing crop – providing you with an additional 2-month application period in the field.

Josh Boersen, Partner & Business Manager, Bradi Farms

 

JJosh was born and raised on a hog and cash crop farm north of Stratford.  After attending Fanshawe College to study Mechanical Engineering Technology with a specialty in Mobile Equipment, he returned to the family farm to continue the third generation.

 

Josh works closely with his father handling day to day operations of the cash crop and custom work businesses, while supporting the poultry and other daily operations.  Josh is using his engineering background to work on and develop custom solutions for his operation as well as others in the local area

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