Anyone else feeling like spring has sprung and the pressure is on? Today's guest can answer all those early-season cropping decisions that you may have, if you're feeling the pressure to get in the field. Today's RealAg LIVE! features our resident agronomist Peter "Wheat Pete" Johnson who chats with host Shaun Haney about early season... Read More
Category: Agronomy
With the winter wheat crop advancing quickly and soybean prices hovering around $18, there's a lot of chatter in Ontario about double cropping soybeans in 2021. The topic commanded the attention of agronomists, researchers and agribusiness reps for almost 20 minutes at this week's virtual Ridgetown Agribusiness meeting. With the stars aligning, Ontario Ministry of... Read More
The roller coaster ride continues for Ontario's winter wheat crop. It's been a spring full of weather highs and lows but AGRIS Co-op agronomist Dale Cowan says the development of the crop is running about 10 days ahead of schedule in the southwest region of the province. Cowan told agronomists, researchers, and agribusiness reps gathered... Read More
Pea leaf weevil is an invasive pest of Western Canada and attacks field peas and faba beans. The larval stage damages nodules on roots of both these crops, which can hinder biological nitrogen fixation happening in those nodules. In this episode of the Pests & Predators podcast, host Shaun Haney is joined by Dr. Meghan... Read More
Whether you are in a dry or wet part of the country, we are all asking the same thing: how deep do I seed my crop? Do I chase the moisture? How deep is too deep? If I seed in the dust, will the bins really bust? All of these questions, and more, are answered... Read More
The Canadian Wheat Research Coalition (CWRC) – a collaboration between the Alberta Wheat Commission, Saskatchewan Wheat Development Commission and Manitoba Crop Alliance – has committed $2 million over five years towards a core breeding agreement with the University of Alberta (U of A). The investment will fund research activities through U of A's wheat breeding... Read More
When establishing alfalfa there's a key decision to make: should the forage be under-seeded to an annual crop? Sometimes called a companion or nurse crop, experts say that instead, the annual crop acts more like competition than a companion. Ashley Knapton, dairy strategic account manager with Corteva, says that a nurse crop draws on similar... Read More