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3 stories exploring agtech across the city.
In Brandon and surrounding towns, entrepreneur Maya Sutherland builds soil-sensing networks and rental robotics, helping farmers reduce inputs, protect yields, and create local jobs—turning prairie pragmatism into data-driven resilience for the region.
In Brandon and surrounding Westman towns, entrepreneurs are blending agriculture, inexpensive technology, and community-minded production to preserve jobs, stabilize supply, and make local economies more humane and adaptive for the decade ahead.
Across Westman, Manitoba's small towns are quietly integrating digital tools—from community Wi-Fi hubs to precision agriculture—reshaping relationships, livelihoods and care. This story traces the human work behind technological change in Brandon and its neighbors.