Terramera is receiving up to $2 million of the funding.
The company will use its portion to develop technology to estimate soil carbon.
This work “will produce scalable, accurate, low-cost remote sensing technology, enabled by the company’s industry-leading artificial intelligence and machine learning platform to reliably measure the carbon content in soil,” the company said in May 2021 when it received $7.9 million in funding from Sustainable Development Technology Canada.
Of the 47 total projects, 44 are through the ACT’s Adoption Stream.
This helps farmers adopt clean technologies, with a priority on those that reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Examples of projects receiving funding through the adoption stream include solar panel installation, grain dryer installation, precision ag tech purchases and installing a biomass boiler.
The remaining three projects will receive support through the Research and Innovation Stream. This stream helps support pre-market innovation including research, development and commercialization of clean ag tech.
Examples of these kinds of projects include developing renewable diesel from ag waste, developing a mobile manure separator and converting ag waste into bioplastics.