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aGRO Systems just got a little prettier 😍🌻 Check out our new website done by the amazing @lynnmedia.ca ❤ and be sure to check out her other portfolio work at @jessicasartportfolio 🤗 we love the new upgrade so much ❤❤❤❤
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Gratitude Post II : to the @dandyalesyyc fam jam ❤️❤️Whenever you show up at the @dandytastingroom you get a huge “How’s it going?!” from Dylan—who never fails to put a smile on your face no matter how rough the day has been.

Cheers 🍻 to 2020! It’s been hell of a year...we collected some grain, fed some cows, some sheep, some ducks and the pigs. We started working with our first ever cidery, set up a anaerobic digestor prototype, implemented new bins and grew our f

Our Holiday Gift Baskets are sold out!!! More options coming soon, so not to worry!
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Thanks for everyone’s support!

At aGRO Systems we believe providing products and services that improve the profitability of small-scale food & beverage producers will create healthier foods for consumers, create better quality jobs and improve the environment all in the same i

aGRO Systems is ecstatic to announce that we started working with our first cidery @uncommoncider ‼️‼️🍎🍏🍎🍏🍎🍏🍎🍏🍎🍏
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The piggies 🐖 love the grub and can’t get enough of it! Thanks Brodie for thinking of us to remove the apple bypr

Brutus the baby bull trying spent grain the first time with mum ❤️
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Reducing spent grain waste one calf at a time. Reducing methane from cattle with spent grain 🙌
#drinkbeersavetheplanet
#reducemethane
#alb

Brewing up something new ☺️
Not beer 🍺, Not feed🌾.....But renewable energy‼️⁉️♻️ (At least trying to 🤗).
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The next few months we will be using this prototype of an anaerobic digester from our partners, to try to make energy from small sampl

New bins Alert 🚨 Attention to our amazing customers 🥰Your grain bins have arrived and will have casters installed by the end of this week (thanks @casterlandcanada )
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🙌💪🏽 More bins, more beer 🍺, more spent grain going to local farmers ✅ F

An important question for @eightyeightbrewco ................is their spent grain as great as their beer 🍺⁉️ The pigs 🐖 tested, and well... YUP 💯
Peaches and Lil’Hammy approve ✅✅✅
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Thanks to @eightyei

Thank you to all the amazing breweries and distilleries we get to work with here in the Calgary community ❤️ The last few weeks have been very challenging for us as a business and family, but your continued support and brews keep us, the moo cows, th

Wanted to send a huge thank you to @trico_foundation @haskayneschool for welcoming us at What’s Next YYC #whatsnextyyc . We appreciate being recognized in the community and will love to keep you updated on all our progress. “Let’s

Hey beautiful people out there!
aGRO Systems has an event next Thursday November 21st with the Trico Foundation and Haskayne School of Business for a $25,000 prize if any of you are interested in last minute registration tonight to support us! One p

Our team happened to find some Hops growing at our new acreage last week, what are the chances?! If anyone is interested please message our team and we can make some available for fresh or wet hop beers 🍻 this September 😃
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Did you know that with the efforts our amazing brewery customers we’ve repurposed nearly 2,000,000 lbs of spent grain 🌾 in the last 12 months⁉️ ♻️ Rather than the grain being under-utilized as compost or wasted in landfills, it’s being

Hi Cutie! 👋
Meet Jane, a cute lil young Chocolate Muscovy Duck 🦆 She’s right at home at the aGRO acreage where she’ll be growing into a chubby mumma duck this upcoming year! She absolutely loves spent grain and sure enjoys eating this

Our Story

Grade 9 Science Fair Experiment that aGRO was based upon

Making spent grain “sand” castles when everything freezes

Articles & Media Coverage

aGRO Systems Redefines the Role of Waste

Victoria Ross’s father has been a beef cattle rancher for almost 50 years, and she grew up on the ranch. And she knows that hard work doesn’t always pay the bills. “On top of all the hard labour intensive farm work, [my father] was also doing a fulltime night job… He had to do both jobs to pay the… keep reading

Building a Family Legacy in Transforming Waste Into Value

Two years into her undergraduate degree in Business at the University of Calgary, Victoria Ross decided to look deeper into the idea of transforming waste into value after taking an entrepreneurship class.“It wasn’t until I took the entrepreneurship class that I really knew I wanted to pursue… keep reading

Owning My Journey: Developing Entrepreneurial Mindsets

Victoria Ross is a recent Bachelor of Commerce graduate from the Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary. The vision for her social enterprise aGRO Systems Inc., (aGRO) started with Victoria’s childhood memories growing up on a beef cattle ranch under the care of her dad… keep reading

Post-Secondary Students Battle for a Chance at $10,000 Through Entrepreneurial Competition

(TORONTO) 27 February 2017: Twelve post-secondary students who balance a full-time course load and a full-time business have been selected as finalists for the Student Entrepreneur National Competition, supported by the John Dobson Foundation. Participants will be flown out to… keep reading

Alberta’s Youth are Leading the Way on the Clean Energy Evolution

Pitching low-carbon ideas to a crowd of climate and energy thought leaders. Youth are growing up in a world in which the effects of climate change are becoming ever more prevalent, energy systems are shifting to low carbon and they are not waiting to take action. We’ve been hearing from… keep reading

$700,000 Commitment Celebrates City Proclamation, Builds on YYC’s Energy as a Social Entrepreneurship Hub

To commemorate the first official Social Entrepreneurship Day in Calgary, Trico Charitable Foundation is pleased to announce $700,000 in local social entrepreneurship programming. “The existence of the Social… keep reading