Digital agriculture tools have the potential to strengthen Canadian farm businesses, improve environmental sustainability and boost Canada’s economy. To realize this promise, it is critical to increase the adoption of agtech at the farm level.

This drives EMILI’s work on Innovation Farms. In addition to collaborating with close to 30 innovators to demonstrate, test and validate new technologies during the 2025 growing season, EMILI is hosting a series of field tours and other events at Innovation Farms to share knowledge, answer questions and inspire collaboration.

So when the Canadian Agri-Food Policy Institute (CAPI) approached EMILI in January 2025 about collaborating on a project to better understand how public policy could better support the development and adoption of digital agriculture technologies, EMILI colleagues Dan Lussier and Kyle Hiebert were quick to jump on board.