Steven Dyck, Western Tractor Company’s President and General Manager, said the investment will provide farmers with the technicians they need as the industry continues to evolve.

“We know that it’s changing and this generational transition is going to embrace a completely different set of circumstances than the previous generation,” he said. “The complexity of farming has changed tremendously. Precision farming is going to take a different kind of technician (and) different kind of producer.”
Executives with Lethbridge College say the financial supports will help them continue producing agricultural equipment technicians “with marks more than 10 per cent above the provincial average.”
Lethbridge’s trades and technologies facility is expected to be completed in 2017. It will be the largest of its kind in south of Calgary.