Regina-based Protein Industries Canada has announced a 9.25 million dollar investment to improve on-farm logistics and food trace-ability.

The CEO of Protein Industries Canada, Bill Greuel, says the project will help farmers become more efficient and achieve higher returns while improving food trace-ability.

“I think farmers are really going to benefit from this project because there’s a large component here about improving on-farm efficiency, and reducing overlap, and reducing input use, and utilizing machinery a lot more efficiently in use for seeding and harvest.”

Greuel said 3 high tech Alberta companies will gather data on a 100,000 acre farm at Kindersley, Coutts Agro, to improve fieldwork efficiency.

“This is really a beta project, and it’s bringing together data sets from GPS systems, on-farm equipment sensors, and data technology to help create more efficient use of equipment as it passes over the field.”