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Web Page Title or Product/Service Name: Prairie Agri Photo Ltd. Company: Prairie Agri Photo Ltd. ; 195 Main Street South, Box 817 ; Ph: (204) 745-2479 ; Ph2:1-800-374-8078 About Prairie Agri Photo Who We Are Prairie Agri Photo Ltd. was established in 1976 at Carman, Manitoba by Jack and Linda McKinnon. Aerial Infrared Crop Photography was first used to monitor potatoes, to detect blight at early stages. These square mile and quarter section images are now widely used for general crop management. The same product has proven to be popular to monitor environment sites as well as wetland surveillance. As these aerial images became more widely known, they were used for overall farm management and resource monitoring. There is now a wide range of users in both government and private industry. A satellite office was opened in Lethbridge, Alberta from 1980-1984 to offer better service to our customers across the western Prairies. From 1985-1989, infrared photos were provided for the citrus industry in Florida, USA. Contracts were also flown for individuals in Barbados, Malaysia and Australia. In the 1990’s and into the early 2000s, the aerial photographic images were scanned and acres could be measured on computer using our agricultural software U-Count. This measuring software has been recently upgraded to Windows XP. This company also developed a crop planning and field history software program called The BottomLine providing farmers with a easy to use planning software package. In 2006, the company changed from traditional film imagery to Color Digital Imagery as the IR film was no longer available. GPS navigation now allows the crew to accurately pinpoint photo locations. Recently the company has developed the capability to georeference images for our more advanced customers. All images are now taken in high resolution natural color format. In 2005 the Alberta portion of the business was re-established in Taber under the name Prairie Agri Photo AB under different ownership. After 31 years of full time activity with this business the owners are ready to sell. The entire business with all of its past customers of Saskatchewan and Manitoba are now for sale to the right energetic, forward looking new owner. It’s time for the present owners to retire or move on to other adventures. Kindly direct serious enquiries to 1-800-374-8078 or email agriphoto@yahoo.com Jack McKinnon, (owner) After graduating from University, Jack taught high school science, chemistry and agriculture for 7 years. Combining his farming background with his science degree, he developed a practical use for infrared technology to be used in agriculture and founded Prairie Agri Photo in 1976. Jack is now focusing on the transfer of this technology to the international market place under the name Resource Monitoring 2000. |
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