Strong nodulation and adequate access to soil nitrogen are two keys to a high yielding soybean crop. But what happens when those ingredients are missing from a field’s agronomic recipe? In this case, Ontario agriculture ministry soybean specialist Horst Bohner says growers typically see pale yellow plants that are suffering from nutrient deficiency due to... Read More
Category: Agronomy
There’s growing interest in how cover crops influence soil health and their role in managing diseases, but the biological mechanisms driving those plant-soil-interactions is still a work in progress. Understanding underground interactions is part of new research exploring how different cover crop groups shape the soil microbiome and affect disease pressure in subsequent crops. Dr.... Read More
Biostimulants continue to generate interest among farmers looking for ways to support crop performance and navigate crop stress. In this discussion with RealAgriculture, Acadian Plant Health's Lauren Davis and Dr. Andres Reyes Gaige share on how seaweed-based biostimulants fit into modern production systems and what growers should consider when evaluating them. Acadian Plant Health produces... Read More
Profitability is a challenge for many North American farmers as they head into the 2026 year. In a challenging market with depressed commodity prices, where do fungicides fit into the crop marketing plan for the new year? That’s a question RealAg Radio host Shaun Haney and BASF’s technical marketing manager for fungicides, Kim Tutor, tackle... Read More
Short days, dry corn, and long economic conversations — this week, host of Wheat Pete's Word, Peter Johnson tackles everything from crop stress lessons to how not to waste cash on unnecessary tillage. Plus, he issues an alert on DON levels and gives a nudge for more farmer-to-farmer data sharing. Let’s dig in! Have a... 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
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