Presentation By: Kevin Pattison & Bill Dorgan Agri-Data Solution

1. TITLE HEREKainai Environmental Education Awareness
Summit 2014
Nov 20, 2014
Kevin Pattison
Bill Dorgan

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Your land is your most precious resource.
Why is Data Important?

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• Projected 9 Billion mouths to feed by 2050.
• Food production must increase 70% percent
to feed that many people.
• Farms must find a way to meet the rising
demand for food in an environmentally
sustainable manner.
Why is data Important

4. TITLE HEREConsumers Want Sustainable Food

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• Soil Conservation (Tillage Practices)
• Nitrogen Use Efficiency (4-Rs)
– Right Rate
– Right Source
– Right placement
– Right Timing
• Water Use Efficiency
• Energy Use
How do we measure sustainability.

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• The Agri-Data Solution is a secure, global
online sustainability & food security platform
for agriculture.
• It is a secure web based application that can
track all aspects of what is happening on your
land.
Why Agri-Data Solution

8. TITLE HEREOver 65 Million Acres to date
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9. TITLE HERETrack Tennants Management
Agri-Data
Solution can
help you keep
track of your
tenants and
which fields
they are
farming each
year.

10. TITLE HERETrack all the fields and their history

11. TITLE HEREIntegration of Geo Spatial Data
Integration of
GIS Data into
a system
everyone can
access.
Pull the
system up real
time to see a
map of the
fields and
confirm you
are in the
right field.
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12. TITLE HEREReal time GIS tracking.
Use an IPAD,
IPhone or
Android
device to
locate a field
boundary and
navigate to it.

13. TITLE HERETrack Seeding and Fertility Data
Seed and
variety details
for Crop
Rotation.
Fertility
details to
make sure
tenants are
not mining
the land.

14. TITLE HEREVRT Report for Applicator breaks down
rates by tank and details product
blends.
Variable Rate
takes data
management
to a whole
new level.
Great way to
increase
efficiency.
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• Integrate Lab Data
directly back into
your data platform,
via web services.
• Use of Barcoding to
eliminate data entry
errors.
• Analyze data
Integration of Soil Test Data
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16. TITLE HEREFertility Recommendations

17. TITLE HEREPesticides
Track which
pesticides are
applied each
year.
Ability to
provide
tenants
pesticide
history report
on land for
crop rotation
selection.

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• Instantly pull up crop history and pesticide
history for any field.
Pesticide and Crop History

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Field scouting
would let you
conduct and
organize field
audits.
Review
weeds, insects
or diseases,
take soil or
tissue tests
and document
with pictures.

20. TITLE HEREIrrigation Management
Track how
much water is
being used on
each field.
Benchmark
water usage
between
crops or
growers.
Integrate
weather data
and soil
moisture
Probes

21. TITLE HEREIrrigation Recommendations

22. TITLE HERESoil Moisture Monitoring

23. TITLE HERETrack Yield History
Track yields to
access land
productivity.
Potentially
adjust rental
rates based
on historical
data.
Use yield data
to benchmark
fertilizer
efficiency

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Yield
Analysis
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26. TITLE HEREMobile Interface for Collecting Data

29. Fertility Recommendations

30. People – Platform - Process

31. Legislative History
 Climate Change and Emissions Management Act (2007)
Mandatory reporting of GHGs by industry - 2003
• Intensity targets and baselines for large facilities
established in 2007 – a 12% reduction/year
• Large Final Emitters (“LFEs”) defined and
identified
• LFEs MUST be compliant by March 31st of each
year

32. Large Industrial Emitters Profile
(>100,000 tonnes CO2e/year)

33. Options to Achieve Targets-12%
Reduction from Baseline Annually
• Emission Performance Credits
– These are credits for better than target performance
• Fund Credits
– Invest in the Climate Change and Emissions Management Fund at
$15/tonne – funds used to develop or invest in Alberta based
technologies, programs, and other priority areas (as per CCEMA)
• Emission Offsets
– Voluntary emission reduction opportunities in support of achieving
environmental objectives

34. Applicable Producer Protocols
for Producers
Conservation Tillage
NERP (Nitrous Oxide Emission Reduction Protocol)

35. Definitions of tillage systems in the Parkland1 and Dry
Prairie Protocol areas
Tillage System Cropped Land Period 2 Fallow Period 3
No Till Up to two passes with low-disturbance
openers (up to 38%) 4, 5 or one pass with a
slightly higher disturbance opener (up to
46%) to apply seed, fertilizer or manure 5,
discretionary tillage of up to10% 6
No cultivations
Notes:
1 The Peace River Lowland ecoregion is contained within the Parkland zone.
2 Cropped land period applies to the management cycle that terminates at harvest, (e.g. harvest to harvest
is the cropped land period). This includes land preparation for seeding which may occur in the previous fall.
3 Fallow period extends from harvest for one full year to the next fall.
4 Percentage values associated with openers are based on maximum opener width (e.g. 5 inch openers
actually measure 5.5 inches) divided by the shank spacing of the implement.
5 Additional operations with harrows, packers, or similar non-soil disturbing implements are accepted.
Where a second low soil disturbance operation is performed it is normally for injection of fertilizer or
manure.
6 Discretionary tillage of up to 10% means that up to 10% of the surface area of a single agricultural field
may be cultivated to address specific management issues. These areas are determined on an annual basis,
meaning that specific areas may change from year to year.

36. Alberta Eco-Regions

37. Rules for the Offset Market
Emission Offsets must:
– Result from actions taken on or after Jan 1, 2002;
Major change January 1, 2012
– Be real, demonstrable, quantifiable, measurable;
– Occur at a place other than a regulated facility and from
actions not otherwise required by law;
– Have clearly established ownership- Tillage (not
NERP)
– Be counted once for compliance purposes;
– Be verified by a qualified third party;
– Occur in Alberta
– Data must be housed for 7 years in a suitable format.

38. Changes January 1, 2012
Yield: Was Now
Parkland Zero Till 0.16 t/ac 0.11 t/ac
Dry Prairie Zero Till 0.089 t/ac 0.058 t/ac
“No till adoptions levels based on 2006 Census of Agriculture data, have increased
20% since 2001. This has resulted in a reduction in the sequestration coefficients
based on higher adoption levels. The scope for the tillage system management
component of the protocol has also been restricted to farms practicing no till
management. All coefficients in this protocol have been revised based on 2006 Census of
Agriculture data.”

39. Changes Cont’d
• Assurance (Evidence)
Was “Limited” level- grower’s attestation
Now “Reasonable” level - more evidence
• No Retroactive claims allowed
Was – Jan 1, 2002
Now - Current year only and each year going forward

40. NERP
• Nitrogen use efficiency
• Based on Kg production vs. Kg of N
applied
• “stacks” on top of Tillage
• ACCURATE timing, rates, yield, and a crop plan
• Agronomically “sound”

41. Looking Ahead…..
NERP
Feedlot Beef Methane Reductions
$30-40/tonne
National and International regulations

42. A Useful Partner

43. ISO

44. Thank you for your interest.

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