Farmers and ranchers in Canada face numerous challenges, from avian flu infecting poultry flocks, to climate change adaptation and the loss of farmland to urban sprawl.
Increasingly, they also face a human resources challenge, as farmers age into retirement.
Over the next decade, 40 per cent of Canada’s farmers are expected to retire, and farm labour is getting increasingly harder to find, said Woo Soo Kim, professor of mechatronics engineering at Simon Fraser University and scientific director for the B.C. Centre for Agricultural Innovation (BCCAI).
Perhaps unsurprisingly, automation, innovation and technology are playing an increasingly important role in agriculture, and B.C.’s Fraser Valley is becoming a bit more Silicon
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