Recent Articles
Fixing the labour crunch in agriculture
As agriculture evolves into a high-tech business, automation and machinery do a lot of the heavy lifting, giving producers and employees the ability to “operate” data and robotics to improve …Read More »
Kill the culls! Sex selection saves lives
Sex is big business. Florid intro sentences aside, in agriculture, sex is a large—and largely under-reported—animal welfare issue that straddles economics as well. The numbers really aren’t good. In the …Read More »
Animal Health Canada: A bold initiative to improve Canada’s resiliency to contagious animal diseases
“Our current approach to risk management around animal health is too fragmented and too under-invested in prevention. The economic consequences of contagion are so enormous that we can’t tolerate the …Read More »
But I’ve been using antibiotics for my animals all my life!
We know we should be more careful about appropriate antibiotic use for people, domestic and farm animals to avoid increasing antimicrobial resistance. But how exactly should we be more …Read More »
Sean McGrath: 5th generation rancher, believer in genomics
In our September 2021 newsletter, we profiled Cherie Copithorne-Barnes and CL Ranches. In this edition, we expand on our brief introduction to Sean McGrath and Round Rock Ranching to discover …Read More »
Gentec in the News
“Arm-Chair Rancher” Featured on UAlberta’s Folio
The Armchair Rancher app will help producers create scenarios to predict risk and potentially cut losses in their operations. Based on historical data, the app will identify current and predict …Read More »
Gentec CEO Graham Plastow is interviewed by Canadian Cattlemen on the “Arm-Chair Rancher”
The Arm-Chair Rancher will capture both industry and on-farm data to help producers make decisions for their operation. The project is looking to collaborate with industry partners to collate data …Read More »
UAlberta’s Dr. David Wishart talks with the Alberta Farmer Express about the “Arm-Chair Rancher”
The Arm-Chair Rancher is an app that will harness a huge database of beef industry data (weather, soil condition, commodity prices, genomics, etc.) and use machine learning to generate guiding …Read More »
Alberta Innovates discusses the “Arm-Chair Rancher” with Fairview Post
The Smart Agriculture and Food Digitization and Automation Challenge was launched by Alberta Innovated to funds projects that are developing smart technologies to increase productivity on farms. The Arm-Chair Rancher …Read More »
Frontline Farming Canada talks beef genomics with Gentec’s John Basarab
Diane Finstad of Frontline Farming Canada met with Dr. John Basarab (Gentec’s Head of Beef Operations) to discuss hybrid vigour and its potential to improve the health and sustainability of …Read More »