Farmers Edge Inc.: federal grants and contributions

Updated 12 October 2026 · Winnipeg|Winnipeg, MB · in the contract register · grants and contributions register · Winnipeg West

Farmers Edge Inc.: federal grants and contributions: 13 agreements; $9.2M value; 3 departments; 5 programs.

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13agreements
$9.2Mvalue
3departments
5programs

Largest agreements

Innovation Assistance Program$2.7Mvalue2020start2020end

The funding provided by the IAP program is intended to assist innovative small and medium-sized enterprises in the start-up phase that cannot access existing commercial support related to COVID-19.

Development of an expanded platform using indepth Machine Learning to drive new service offerings$2.5Mvalue2019start2022end

Develop a platform to combine years of agronomic, yield, crop input, and weather data with newly acquired data from Strategic Partnerships and other new partner service providers to create a broad data set capable to offer superior depth of decision support options for Producers.

Nitrogen Manager (N-Manager) for Canola: Creating decision support tools for growers and the agriculture industry to support the reduction of on-farm N2O emissions by 30% by 2030$2.0Mvalue2023start2027end

The objective of this project is to build a decision support tool, N-Manager for Canola, to help growers and industry professionals enact the 4R Nutrient Stewardship plan using the scientific discipline of agronomy.

000016916$1.0Mvalue2020start2021end

Support for Farmers Edge Inc. to continue operations during the COVID-19 pandemic

Agreement$272Kvalue2017start–end
Agreement$167Kvalue2017start–end
Optimizing agri-food tracking capabilities by incorporating various innovative technology options$120Kvalue2022start2023end

The essence of this project is to develop, implement and optimize the agri-food tracking and tracing capabilities of the current technology by incorporating various technology options and evaluating potential benefits created in commercial scenarios.

Agreement$112Kvalue2014start–end
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Creating and Implementing an Innovative Grower Interaction Program$70.0Kvalue2020start2020end

The essence of this project is to develop and implement an innovative grower interaction initiative. This initiative will enable Farmers Edge to more effectively interact with growers as necessitated by the Covid-19 pandemic social distancing requirements.

Agreement$64.4Kvalue2016start–end
Agreement$60.0Kvalue2016start–end
Youth Project: Supporting the farming community through education how technology can assist to produce better crops.$60.0Kvalue2020start2021end

The essence of this project is to expand the Farmers Edge team that educates growers to better understand the services we have to offer to help them to produce a better crop; to save time and money while creating more food for the world.

Youth Project: Educating the agriculture community on how data-driven technologies can help farmers to improve how food is produced.$60.0Kvalue2021start2022end

The essence of this project is to expand the Farmers Edge team that supports that education of growers to better understand the products and services we have to offer which will help them to use data, analytics, and predictive modeling to ensure better outcomes and more effective risk-management for farming operations.

Departments

National Research Council Canada11agreements$6.2Mvalue3programs
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Firms
  • Innovation Assistance Program
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – Youth Employment Program

All grants from National Research Council Canada

Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada1agreements$2.0Mvalue1programs
  • Agricultural Clean Technology

All grants from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada

Western Economic Diversification Canada1agreements$1.0Mvalue1programs
  • Regional Economic Growth through Innovation

All grants from Western Economic Diversification Canada

Years

20231agreements$2.0Mvalue1programs
  • Agricultural Clean Technology
20221agreements$120Kvalue1programs
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Firms
20211agreements$60.0Kvalue1programs
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – Youth Employment Program
20204agreements$3.8Mvalue4programs
  • Innovation Assistance Program
  • Regional Economic Growth through Innovation
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Firms
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – Youth Employment Program
20191agreements$2.5Mvalue1programs
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Firms
20172agreements$439Kvalue0programs
    20162agreements$124Kvalue0programs
      20141agreements$112Kvalue0programs

        Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada. Source: Government of Canada proactive disclosure of grants and contributions (open.canada.ca, dataset 432527ab-7aac-45b5-81d6-7597107a7013), 1,327,352 rows as published, collapsed to one agreement per agreement number (per reference number where none is given) at its latest amendment, which carries the full agreement value. Years are the agreement start year. Agreements with individuals are counted but not named.