The FIRE Program fosters a collaborative innovation ecosystem by leveraging existing infrastructure to inject farmers’ experiences and expertise into early stages of innovation – ensuring that solutions are validated and founded on industry-identified problems. FIRE will accelerate adoption of sustainability innovations through the co-development and user-vetting of clean technologies. FIRE does this through grassroots collaboration networks, high impact events, and farmer-driven validation and research
Announcements from the FIRE Program:
New Soil Health and Nutrient Management Challenge Launched with Foresight Canada
the Innovative Farmers Association of Ontario (IFAO) is partnering with Foresight on the new Soil Health and Nutrient Management Challenge to find innovative solutions that will improve farmers’ ability to implement better nutrient management while improving soil health. the Innovative Farmers Association of Ontario (IFAO) is partnering with Foresight on the new Soil Health and Nutrient Management Challenge to find innovative solutions that will improve farmers’ ability to implement better nutrient management while improving soil health. This Challenge offers agritech ventures the opportunity to pilot their unique solutions to mitigate these challenges by improving soil structure and water holder capacity, reducing erosion, and improving the rate, timing and placement of fertilizers.
To give Agtech companies an opportunity to learn more about the Challenge, including desired outcomes, eligibility criteria, as well as a Q&A period, Foresight is hosting a challenge webinar on November 17, 2022 at 9:00am PST. Interested parties can register for the webinar [here].
Agtech companies with solutions to offer IFAO can apply [here].
The Soil Health and Nutrient Management Challenge is presented with support from Innovative Farmers Association of Ontario, and founding agriNEXT partners Farm Credit Canada and Natural Products Canada.