In this episode of Unlocking Innovation: A National Call to Action, the spotlight turns to one of the most persistent themes raised during the BioEnterprise-hosted national roundtables: Canada’s regulatory system, and the growing concern that its slow, complex processes are holding back agri-food innovation. For this episode of the podcast series, host Shaun Haney is... Read More
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With trade and commodity markets in flux, U.S. agricultural policy is being shaped by both geopolitics and domestic affordability concerns. The government shut down is now over, and farmers are asking, what now?, when it comes to support payments, tariffs, and trade. Jim Wiesemeyer, of Wiesemeyer’s Perspectives podcast, joins Shaun Haney in this interview to... Read More
The Canadian Barley Research Coalition and Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada are teaming up to develop new barley varieties to help ensure the long-term competitiveness and sustainability of the crop in Canada. The partners have entered into a new Core Barley Breeding Agreement, which will see the CBRC commit $1,148,900 over three years to support the... Read More
A new environmental assessment of chicken production in Canada shows the country's farmers continue to reduce their carbon footprint. Chicken Farmers of Canada has released the results of its latest lifecycle assessment, confirming that producers have made measurable improvements in reducing their environmental footprint over the past seven years. The assessment, conducted by Groupe AGÉCO,... Read More
Welcome to this Tuesday edition of RealAg Radio! Your host Shaun Haney kicks the show off with Jim Wiesemeyer of Wiesemeyer’s Perspectives discussing what’s going on in U.S. farm policy. Haney is also joined by John Steeves, head of rural business, North America for Rabobank, and Marc Drouin, general manager and principal of Rabobank Canada,... Read More
As breeding programs continue to bring forward new pulse genetics, growers now have a wider range of varieties to choose from across peas, lentils, chickpeas, and faba beans. Farmers have plenty of combinations of yield potential, disease resistance, and agronomic traits to wade through. In this episode of RealAgriculture's Pulse School, Laurie Friesen, seed program... Read More
What do you get when you cross a robot with a hopper and openers with a penchant for killing weeds? Why, the FarmDroid FD20, of course! RealAgriculture’s Amber Bell caught up with Mark Weber of Frontlink Inc. to discuss the FarmDroid FD20 at Agri-Trade in early November. Weber says the FD20 is the world’s first... Read More
At a time when farm finances are under pressure, the pace of agricultural innovation continues to accelerate. That balance between the economic realities farmers face and the long-term need for new technologies is a focus for Neil Bentley, vice president of market management at BASF. Bentley oversees North American strategy across crop protection, seeds and... Read More
On this episode of The Agronomists, host Lyndsey Smith is joined by Jonathan Zettler of Fieldwalker Agronomy and Laird Lampertz of Pitura Seeds to discuss choosing and varying seeding rates based on soil limits or possibility, ROI, yield maps and more. What can the software/equipment do? What are the limits? How do we decide how... Read More
Welcome to today’s edition of Agronomic Monday with Lyndsey Smith! On today’s show: Curtis Miedema of Miedema Honey Farms discusses honeybees and their role in canola production; Ian McDonald of OMAFA discusses the impact of tillage on moving fertilizer; Scott Keller of Keller Farms discusses the benefits of controlling traffic in the field; and, Dr.... Read More