Canada: First Pass Launches into Future of Precision Ag

By The Western Producer

Farmers from western Saskatchewan developed a system that improves overall pass efficiency for producers, writes Ron Lyseng at The Western Producer. The pair knew they needed the tools and setting up the work manually wouldn’t cut it.

Launch Pad is the next big endeavor in the future of precision farming for First Pass, the Saskatchewan company known for specializing in designing optimal field pathways for implement traffic. Launch Pad brings together the three main factors that will dominate the future of field operations, according to Wilson Acton, an executive of Verge, the company that bought First Pass a year ago.

Acton the three factors forming the foundation for Launch Pad are precision ag, digital ag, and autonomous ag. Verge is one of the few companies already preparing for the advent of autonomous farm machinery.

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