Over the past decade, bluegrass has become a familiar sight in winter wheat fields across Ontario, and it's become a significant yield threat on farms where it gains a foothold. At the C&M Seeds Wheat Wednesday annual field day at Palmerston, Ont., Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Agribusiness weed management specialist Mike Cowbrough outlined... Read More
Year: 2026
Welcome to the Farmer Rapid Fire on RealAg Radio, brought to you by Pioneer Seeds Canada! 00:00 - Coming up… 03:09 - Steve Terpstra of Atwood, Ont. 15:10 - Aaron Hargreaves of Brandon, Man. 25:53 - Kristjan Hebert of Fairlight, Sask. 37:36 - Kresten Jorgenson of New Brigden of Special Areas 3, Alta. 46:55 -... Read More
The agreement that U.S. President Donald Trump and his team have been negotiating with Iran is not only centred around an end to the war and the re-opening of the Strait of Hormuz, but also a potential win for U.S. agricultural exports of corn, wheat and soybeans. It's being framed as a humanitarian effort to... Read More
No-till soybean growers are always looking for ways to improve seedbed conditions without disturbing the soil. In this episode of RealAgriculture's Soybean School, Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Agribusiness soybean specialist Horst Bohner visits Lucknow, Ont., brothers Lawrence Hogan and Steve Howard to see how they use a modified 16-row row-clearing unit from Quebec-based…Read More
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled 7–2 in favour of Monsanto, now owned by Bayer, in the landmark Monsanto Co. vs. Durnell case, where John Durnell, a farmer from Missouri, sued Monsanto alleging that the herbicide Roundup caused his non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. In the original case, decided in 2023, Durnell alleged that Monsanto failed to adequately... Read More
As corn and soybean crops move into a critical stage of development, grain markets appear remarkably unconcerned about production risk despite excessive moisture in parts of the U.S. Midwest. According to Chip Flory, market analyst and host of AgriTalk, the market has become conditioned to expect resilient crops, even when early-season weather creates visible stress... Read More
Welcome to RealAg Radio with your host Shaun Haney. Today on the show, Haney is joined by Chip Flory of AgriTalk and Andy O'Brien of Goodleaf Farms. 00:00 - Coming up… 02:48 - Chip Flory, AgriTalk 15:46 - Chip Flory, AgriTalk 27:32 - Chip Flory, AgriTalk 36:51 - Andy O'Brien, GoodLeaf Farms 48:18 - Audience... Read More
As we approach the July 1 milestone, the USMCA/CUSMA review process is officially shifting from a distant policy discussion into high gear. But let’s be clear: July 1 isn’t the finish line. It’s the starting line for a review process likely to outlast the upcoming U.S. midterms. I’ve been deep in the trenches tracking what... Read More
Rising land values have forced a shift in how Canada's largest agricultural lender approaches the upcoming $50-billion intergenerational asset transfer, according to Farm Credit Canada (FCC) CEO Justine Hendricks. Speaking with Shaun Haney of RealAgriculture at the FCC head office in Regina, Hendricks describes the wave of upcoming farm successions one of the most "complex,... Read More
Trade agreements within North America have significantly lowered food prices for consumers, according to new research from Purdue University. The study, funded by the Corn Refiners Association, quantified the impact of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). Purdue professor of agricultural economics and study co-author Dr. Joseph Balagtas... Read More