Scott Day is a farmer from Deloraine, Manitoba. For almost 24 years Scott was an Ag Rep and Crop Diversification Specialist & Research Farm Manager for Manitoba Agriculture in Southwest Manitoba. He then left the Manitoba Government in 2011 to help start the agricultural investment and management firm called “Fall Line Capital” which is based in California’s Silicon Valley. Fall Line invests in Farmland across the USA and then manages the operation of those farms with a focus on soil conservation. Fall Line also invests in new Ag Technologies around the World. Fall Line takes a very active role in the management of all their investments.
Scott has direct farming experience, not only across North America, but also in Australia, Europe & the Former Soviet Union. Scott has won awards for his ag extension work and promotion of conservation agriculture including Canada’s “Zero-Till Farmer of the Year” and “Conservation Farm of the Year”. Scott has spoken about Conservation Agriculture at “AgriTechnica” in Hannover, Germany, “Crop World” in London, England, the FAO/UN in Rome, and the “World’s Fair” in Milan, Italy.
Along with recent speaking opportunities such as Grainworld and other events in North America. Scott has also been a contributing author to the advanced agriculture reference books: “The Search for Sustainable Agriculture” and “Rainfed Farming Systems Around the World”. Scott most recently contributed to the book “Advances in Conservation Agriculture, Volume 2” by Amir Kassam with the UN/FAO.
Scott received a BS in Agriculture from the University of Manitoba in 1987 and is a Professional Agrologist. Scott is currently Director and Chief Agronomist for Fall Line Capital based in San Mateo, California, but he also continues farm, with the help of his family, at Deloraine, Manitoba in Southwest Manitoba. His winters are spent at the Fall Line head office in California with his wife Ann and their summers are spent back home at the farm in Canada. Ann and Scott have a daughter Alex who is now working on a Marine Biology degree at Memorial University in St.John’s, NFLD.
