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The Nutrien Digital Agriculture Centre and the kihci-okâwîmâw askiy (Great Mother Earth) Knowledge Centre are located metres apart in the USASK College of Agriculture and Bioresources building.

Funding for both comes from a $15 million gift Nutrien made to the University of Saskatchewan last year.
The Nutrien Digital Agriculture Centre has a goal of accelerating farming into the digital age.  There are three research platforms:

1) mapping and analyzing agricultural ecosystems
2) accelerate plant breeding, crop research and agricultural management
3)help farmers improve practices under real conditions

The director of the Nutrien Digital Agriculture Centre, Dr. Steve Shirtliffe says the new space will be a magnet for bringing together researchers, students, producers and industry partners while “supercharging” research in ways that were not possible before.

Meantime, the kihci-okâwîmâw askiy (Great Mother Earth) Knowledge Centre will support the development of land-related teaching, research and engagement opportunities of significance to Indigenous Communities. There is physical space for workshops on Indigenous perspectives of land, history, worldviews and contemporary challenges. Some of those workshops will be for staff and faculty at the College of Agriculture and Bioresources.

More details can be viewed here.

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From left: President Vince Bruni-Bossio (USask); Candice Pete-Cardoso, Director, kihci-okāwīmāw askiy Knowledge Centre (USask); Dean Angela Bedard-Haughn (College of Agriculture and Bioresources); Elder Julie Pitzel; Knowledge Keeper Joseph Naytowhow; Tim McMillan, Vice President, Strategy (Nutrien); Steve Shirtliffe, Director, Nutrien Digital Agriculture Centre (USask); Julie Ann Wriston, Director, Indigenous Relations (Nutrien).