Evaluation of reduced enteric methane emissions in beef cattle using a novel vaccine at research farms in Alberta
Testing a novel inoculant designed to target methane-producing bacteria in cattle with the aim of reducing methane generation from the digestion process.
Advancing Leading Edge Horticultural Lighting Technology
SmartGRO Bioengineering Inc. has developed a proprietary, AI powered horticultural lighting system which has been shown in controlled trials to use up to 80% less electricity to produce an equivalent quantity of harvested fresh weight as compared to the horticultural lighting industry’s leading LED products. This technology offers a significant opportunity to help producers reduce…
Carbon-Free Heat Processing
PIP Lethbridge Inc. (PIP) is a wet fractionation processing facility with high thermal demand. PIP is implementing an innovative Thermal Energy Storage (TES) system that utilizes a patented technology to store heat in crushed rocks. This TES system, with its high efficiency and modular design, is anticipated to fully decarbonize the process heat and generate…
Electric Boiler
McCain foods is in the process of a $600 million expansion of their Coaldale, AB potato processing facility. The completed facility will have significant steam demand, currently supplied by natural gas boilers. As an addition to the main expansion project, McCain is implementing an electric boiler to generate a portion of steam for the plant.…
Inedible Egg Powder Project
Sparks Eggs, division of Golden Valley Foods Ltd. sorts, grades, and packages fresh eggs to retail, food service and commercial partners. During the grading process a portion of the eggs are determined to be inedible. This category of product is not able to be sold to market generating waste. With a commitment to sustainability and…
Development of a prototype for digestate water treatment and fertilizer value-add opportunity for on-farm feedlot anaerobic digestors (AD)
Rimrock Renewables Limited Partnership along with Rimrock Cattle Company Ltd. (Rimrock) are investing in a first of a kind, innovative system within the Agriculture and Agri-Food sector that is designed to produce value-ad fertilizer, peat, cattle bedding, and water recycle product for Alberta-based Greenhouses, Mushroom Farmers, Organic Farmers, Conventional Farmers, and Cattle Producers who are…
Achieving carbon neutrality through the datafication of wastewater from livestock
IWR Technologies Ltd.’s livestock division Livestock Water Recycling, has developed a technology (known as PLANT) that transforms paunch manure into two distinct natural fertilizers, reducing on-farm methane emissions by up to 82 per cent in cattle processing. PLANT uses progressive water treatment technology to extract manure particles from water and segregate these into valuable fertilizer…
Opti-Cart from Optimal Agricultural Equipment Ltd.
The proposed technology by Optimal Agricultural Equipment Ltd is Opti-Cart, a dual-purpose grain cart/seed tender unit for the grain farming industry. This unit is suitable for use as a grain cart in the fall during harvest season and as a seed tender cart in the spring to deliver seed and fertilizer to a seeding tool.…
Cattle Feed Additive for Reducing Methane Emissions
The project by Synergraze Inc. is aimed at commercially growing and processing a natural cattle feed additive based on a strain of red algae. At less than one per cent inclusion level, the feed additive is capable of reducing methane emissions in cattle and other ruminants by up to 90 per cent while also increasing…
Brewery GHG reduction first-of-kind commercialization project
Blindman Brewing is partnering with Earthly Labs to adopt their CO2 capture and reuse technology in its brewing process in collaboration with Olds College and the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute. CO2 that is free from oxygen and nitrogen is captured from the fermentation process and sent to a foam trap where most of the liquid…
