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Data Visualization for the Agriculture and Agri-Food Sector

We turn crop, livestock, weather and trade data into interactive maps and stories that producers, buyers and government can explore on their own.

THE CHALLENGE

From field to market, in one picture

Agriculture runs on data: acres, yields, herd counts, prices, weather, exports and farm cash receipts. Producers, marketing boards and food businesses collect plenty of it, but it usually stays in reports and spreadsheets that only specialists read.

An interactive visualization shows the season, the sector and the markets in a way producers, buyers and decision makers can explore for themselves.

TODAY

  • Sector statistics buried in long reports
  • Farm and field data spread across spreadsheets
  • A hard time showing government the value of the sector

WITH AN INTERACTIVE VISUALIZATION

  • Farms, crops and markets on one interactive map
  • Seasons and trends anyone can follow
  • Open to everyone, WCAG 2.1 AA

Questions producers and buyers ask

WHAT WE BUILD

What we build for agriculture

Crop and field maps

Acres, crops and yields by county or field, shaded on a real map with a text table behind it.

Season and price trends

Prices, yields and herd numbers animated across seasons and years.

Supply chain flows

From farm gate to processor to market, shown as flows that follow the product.

Weather and water viewers

Wind, rain or water flows animated on a map, measured or modelled and labelled honestly.

Export markets

Where agri-food products go and how that is changing, from Statistics Canada trade data.

Branded member reports

Producers and members download a branded PDF or PowerPoint of the exact view.

LIVE EXAMPLES

See it working

Live examples built from real agricultural, trade and weather data. Every number comes from the published source.

Canadian Honey Bee Explorer: a map of Canada with honey bee colonies drawn as golden hexagons, about 1,000 colonies each, clustered in Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec and the Maritimes. Alberta holds 308,200 colonies, 38% of the nine provinces.

AGRICULTURE - APICULTURE

Canadian Honey Bee Explorer

854,653 colonies, a century of honey and every winter's losses since 2007, in four narrated stories with a map for each.

See the example

Toronto Grid Pulse: every streetlight pole in Toronto as a glowing dot on the City's mapping, brightest downtown, with major roads labelled.

AGRI-FOOD - TRADE

Ontario Exports

Ontario's domestic exports to 216 destinations since 2000. The US share fell from 93.2% to 71.6% as gold surged.

See the example

Wind Over the Lakes: Southern Ontario and the lower Great Lakes scattered with streaks that follow the modelled 10 m wind, coloured by speed.

AGRICULTURE - WEATHER

Wind Over the Lakes

Two days of modelled wind over Southern Ontario and the lower Great Lakes, 2.8 times as strong over the lakes as over land.

See the example

The Restless Lake: Lake Ontario filled with glowing streaks that follow the modelled surface current, coloured by speed.

AGRICULTURE - WATER

The Restless Lake

Two days of modelled surface currents on Lake Ontario. Every streak follows the current; the west basin peaks at 63.8 cm/s.

See the example

YOUR DATA

Built from data the sector already collects

Statistics Canada, provincial ministries and your own members already publish a great deal. If it fits in a spreadsheet, it can be visualized.

  • Census of Agriculture tables
  • Crop acres and yields
  • Livestock and colony counts
  • Farm cash receipts
  • Commodity prices
  • Agri-food export data
  • Weather and climate records
  • Soil and drainage layers
  • Member and producer lists
  • Processor and market locations

AODA / WCAG 2.1 AA

Accessible from the start, AODA included

Ontario's AODA requires public sector organizations, and private and nonprofit organizations with 50 or more employees, to make their websites meet WCAG 2.0 Level AA. Every visualization we build meets WCAG 2.1 AA, a newer and stricter standard, so producers and the public can all use it.

How we meet WCAG 2.1 AA

Text table behind every chart

Every number can be read without the picture

Full keyboard access

Every control works without a mouse

Screen reader announcements

Changes are read out as people explore

Reduced motion respected

Animation can be paused or turned off

WCAG 2.1 AA on every build

WAYS TO WORK WITH US

Build, licence, or both

Every project is quoted after a discovery call. Here is how agricultural organizations usually work with us.

Custom build

We design and build a visualization around your sector, your data and your members, ready to embed on your site.

Licence

Use one of our ready-made visualizations with your own data and branding, on a monthly or yearly plan.

Build and licence

A custom build to start, then a licence that keeps it hosted and refreshed each season.

See what affects pricing

HOW IT WORKS

From first call to harvest-ready

1

Discovery call

Tell us who needs to understand your data and what you collect. We suggest what the experience could look like.

2

Scope and quote

We review the data, confirm what it can honestly show, and send you a quote.

3

Build and review

You see a working draft early, and we refine it with your team or board.

4

Launch and update

It goes live on your website and can be refreshed each season or year.

Questions agricultural groups ask us

Yes. Statistics Canada data is published under the Statistics Canada Open Licence, and we credit the source on every page.

Yes. Farm-level data can be grouped by county or region so no single operation can be identified.

Yes. We set each build up so new seasons or years can be added and the visualization refreshed.

Yes. Each visualization is a single web page that embeds on almost any website, and it can be shared with one link.

Every project is quoted. The price depends on the size and condition of your data, the number of views, and features like maps, tours or downloadable reports. See what affects pricing, or book a discovery call for a quote.

Show the value of the sector at a glance

Tell us about your sector and the data you collect. We will show you what an interactive experience could look like and what it takes to build it.