By Charles Conteh
Publication Date: 2026-06-08 20:59:00
Artificial intelligence (AI) is fundamentally changing the contours of life as we know it. In agriculture, the global AI market is expected to reach nearly $47 billion by 2034. AI enables higher agricultural yields with fewer inputs, an outcome that is critically important in a time of climate uncertainty and resource scarcity.
In Canada, agricultural policymakers and industry leaders are beginning to see the promise of AI. However, Canada’s new AI for All strategy recognizes that technology alone will not deliver the desired transformation as long as there is an “adoption gap.”
Canada lags behind other G7 countries in system-wide agricultural sector transformation. The problem is not a lack of sophisticated tools. There is a lack of systems to help farmers understand, integrate and trust these technologies.
I led my research team at Brock University in a two-year study of agricultural automation and robotics in Ontario. We have found that although many technologies…
