Speaker Series

Discover how strategic land forming can transform challenging fields into productive, resilient assets for your farm. Join Jordan Wallace, a leading expert in precision agriculture from GPS Ontario, as he shares practical insights from a recent land-forming project at the Ottawa Smart Farm. This session addresses real-world solutions to combat waterlogging, improve soil health, and increase crop yield through targeted land-forming techniques. Learn about soil amendment strategies, effective drainage management, and key steps for maintaining soil biology in saturated fields. Walk away with actionable tools to optimize your fields and adapt to changing conditions, enhancing both productivity and sustainability.

Bio: Jordan Wallace is a highly regarded expert in precision agriculture and advanced field technology solutions, specializing in sustainable land management and soil health improvement. As the Advanced Solutions Technician at GPS Ontario, Jordan has spearheaded innovative projects focused on improving farm efficiency, productivity, and resilience against extreme weather conditions. With a strong background in practical technology applications, Jordan brings a wealth of knowledge on implementing adaptive land-forming practices, based on extensive work with fields at the Ottawa Smart Farm. His insights are grounded in real-world challenges, including water management and soil biology, positioning him as a valuable resource for farmers seeking to optimize land use in today’s variable climate.

Andres Hurtado is the co-founder of Terranova UAV, an agricultural drone service company. Terranova UAV provides precision agriculture services by integrating different technologies such as multispectral imagery, drone imagery, photogrammetry, and AI to help farmers reduce costs, emissions and increase yields.

Andres is an entrepreneur with more than 15 years of engineering and project management experience. He attained his Bachelor’s in Chemical Engineering at the University of Antioquia in Colombia in 2007 and holds a Master of Business Administration degree from the Ivey Business School at Western University in 2015, where he completed a certification in entrepreneurship.

During his time at Western, Andres taught and coached undergraduate students in entrepreneurship and business at the Baikal State University in Irkutsk, Russia.

Join Shawn Brenneman, Provincial Soil & Crop Director and the rest of St. Clair Regional Soil and Crop directors (comprised of Essex, Chatham-Kent, Lambton County Associations) for our Annual General Meeting. Find out what’s going on in the region, 2025 research trials, upcoming grants cost-share programs, workshops and activities.

The Ontario Soil and Crop Improvement Association (OSCIA), founded in 1939, is a grassroots, not-for-profit farm organization. The Association is represented by more than 50 local county and district branches within 11 regions of the province, and our dedicated membership has significant representation in all commodity groups.