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Every week, Government of Saskatchewan brings together hundreds of updates from farmers and field reporters into a provincial snapshot of crop conditions: "The Saskatchewan Crop Report".

Farmers rely on it to time their operations, industry to forecast production, insurers to monitor drought risk, and government to validate crop estimates at the national level. (and that's just the surface)

Over time, as most systems do, the process became fragmented. Submissions arrived in both print and digital formats, and administrators were manually consolidating everything before each weekly release. Once published, most of the data lived in static PDFs, with limited ability to compare historical and real-time data.

We reengineered the entire Crop Report Solution around three priorities:

› Structured online surveys to replace manual submissions
› Built-in automation, data weighting, and integration to reduce manual handling
› Interactive dashboards to make the data easier to access, compare and explore

Right out of the gates, admin labour dropped by 70 percent, and more than 200 crop reporters now submit directly from, well, wherever they want.

✏ More on the project here:
zu.com/work/saskatchewan-crop-report

“Ifrah viewed email like we view fax machines.” – Aqeel Wahab [19:25]

CBC’s This is Saskatchewan Podcast w/ Leisha Grebinski just released a episode on our Through Their Eyes: The Future User Lab Workshop from XCamp Vol. III – a live exchange between industry and the next generation.

In this session, we invited twenty teens and young adults to share with and show attendees how they communicate, learn, and connect across digital and physical worlds. Offering rare perspective into why they make decisions, what builds trust, and where today’s digital experiences fall short.

🎧 Listen to the podcast. Link in the comments.

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“Ifrah viewed email like we view fax machines.” – Aqeel Wahab [20:25]

CBC’s This is Saskatchewan Podcast w/ Leisha Grebinski just released a episode on our Through Their Eyes: The Future User Lab Workshop from XCamp Vol. III – a live exchange between industry and the next generation.

In this session, we invited twenty teens and young adults to share with and show attendees how they communicate, learn, and connect across digital and physical worlds. Offering rare perspective into why they make decisions, what builds trust, and where today’s digital experiences fall short.

🎧 Listen to the podcast on:

CBC: https://www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-podcasts/1416-this-is-saskatchewan/episode/16179764-sask.-businesses-want-to-tap-into-gen-zs-minds-and-wallets
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/70nL7wFbwLwfHcW3rXu0QI
Apple Music: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/this-is-saskatchewan/id1725997603?i=1000735375419

📸 Studio D YXE

Sask. businesses want to tap into Gen Z's minds and wallets | This is Saskatchewan | CBC Podcasts | CBC Listen Move over millennials. Gen Z is the next generation of consumers. Businesses want their dollars but it’s a hard generation to reach (they don’t take phone calls or answer emails.) So when people from some of the province’s largest companies such as SGI, Sasktel, and Tourism Saskatchewan got to...