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By Cam Lee

Ag roundup

Agriculture report for Tuesday, July 29

Jul 29, 2025 | 1:21 PM

The Canadian Agri-Food Automation and Intelligence
Network has introduced a new project from its recent Smart Farm Competition.

The Network’s mandate from Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada is to fund technological responses to the most significant opportunities and challenges facing the nation’s agri-food producers and primary processors.

Farmers will be invited to access SOIL-HUB, an AI-generated decision-making tool developed by University of Alberta professor Dr. David Wishart.

They will be using artificial intelligence to guide some of their farming activities, allowing them to access a huge database through a relatively simple user interface.

Dr. Wishart said SOIL-HUB is an initiative to gather and organize vast amounts of disconnected soil and other agricultural data.

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The number of cattle in US feedlots at the start of the month was lower than market expectations.

The United States Department of Agriculture has reported there were two percent fewer cattle in feedlots compared to one year earlier.

Analysts had been anticipating at 0.8 percent decline.

USDA livestock analyst Micheal McConnell says there are tight supplies inside and outside of the feedlot.

The national cattle herd on July 1 was 94.2 million head.

That is a record low for that date.