Advancing
Extension 4.0
A cross-sectoral platform for the future of Extension and Advisory Services in Canada — where digital innovation meets community knowledge.
Extension services are evolving.
The conversation starts here.
Agricultural advisory systems across crop production, livestock, environmental management, and farm business are too often siloed. CAREE 2026 brings these worlds into dialogue — to build a more connected, equitable, and digitally-enabled advisory ecosystem.
Connect crop, livestock, farm business, environmental, and food security advisory services into coherent whole-farm support.
Break down barriers to advisory access for women, youth, new farmers, Indigenous communities, and underserved regions.
Honour Indigenous, place-based, and scientific knowledge systems equally in how advisory practice is designed and delivered.
Explore AI, data platforms, and remote advisory tools that extend reach without sacrificing the human relationship at the core of extension.
Six areas shaping Canada’s advisory future
The symposium is structured around six interconnected discussion themes, each exploring a critical dimension of Extension 4.0.
EAS Across Sectors
Foundation
Common functions, shared tools, and emerging trends in Extension and Advisory Services — understanding the ecosystem before transforming it.
Crop & Livestock Advisory
Production
How production cycles, risk profiles, and knowledge needs differ across sectors — and what each can learn from the other’s advisory models.
Farm Management as Integration Hub
Strategy
Whole-farm planning, business risk, and financial sustainability as the connective tissue linking technical, environmental, and economic advisory support.
Environmental Sustainability
Stewardship
Balancing productivity with responsibility — climate adaptation, biodiversity, resource efficiency, and how fragmented advisory systems affect environmental outcomes.
Equity, Targeting & Inclusion
Equity
Reaching Indigenous and northern communities, women in agriculture, youth, and new entrants — dismantling infrastructure, cultural, and language barriers in EAS delivery.
Digital Transformation
Extension 4.0
AI, data analytics, virtual learning, and remote advisory systems — how technology can amplify (not replace) the human relationships that make extension work.
A full day of dialogue & discovery
One structured day moving from sector foundations to system-wide transformation.
Built for everyone who moves knowledge in agriculture
CAREE 2026 is a genuinely cross-sectoral gathering. If you work where research, practice, and policy meet in Canada’s agri-food system — this room is for you.
Agricultural Advisors
Researchers & Academics
Government Representatives
Industry Stakeholders
Producer Organizations
Farm Business Consultants
Environmental Specialists
Indigenous Organizations
Students & Emerging Professionals
Community Development Practitioners
Policymakers
Registration details
coming soon.
Organized by the Canadian Association for Research on Extension and Education (CAREE)