Capital Ideas
Is quality really job 1 on your farm?
Glenn Cheater
The most surprising thing about Wayd McNally’s company isn’t that it’s successful. It’s that it’s not more successful. The PEI entrepreneur founded Sensor Wireless in 2002. He has customers in more than 40 countries, from Fortune 500 companies such as Coca-Cola and Nestlé to potato farmers cropping a few hundred acres.
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New Farmer
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Science & Innovation
New RFID Technology Improves Farm Safety
EduTransfer Design Associates and Haywire Creative
New Whereabouts™ unique safety device reduces farm risk and improves safety for kids, workers and pets.
Three innovative rural farm families from Saskatchewan have developed a unique safety device that will improve farmyard safety for their children and other farm families. “We saw a product similar to this device in Europe, however, when we investigated the possibility of importing the product we came across a few roadblocks to do that,” explains Wendy Wecker, one of the partners in Prairie Tech Enterprises Ltd. “We were still really interested in the product, so we decided we could go forward by making a ‘made in Canada solution’.”
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