Fresh off the 100th episode of Wheat Pete's Word, the questions are pouring in, as are the all-in-good-fun "Just how old are you, Peter Johnson?" comments. In this week's word, we're talking soil nutrients in snirt (soil/dirt mix), why you shouldn't worry about brown-leaved wheat just yet, why geese are terrible creatures, when we can... Read More
Category: Agronomy
Mike Dorion calls himself ‘the compost kid’ and he believes farmers should think about their fields like he does his garden. The founder of Calgary-based Living Soil Solutions doesn’t suggest cash crop farmers use tea leaves to improve soil health, but he does preach the benefits of reducing tillage, banking organic matter to help increase... Read More
High or low, the height of your sprayer boom doesn't really matter. Right? Actually, that’s a myth. Welcome to a new season of Spray Tips Special Edition. In our first episode we find our dynamic duo of Sprayers101.com, Tom Wolf of AgriMetrix, and Jason Deveau of Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs, bickering... Read More
Pretty field pictures and awesome harvest videos aside, drones, or UAVs, are proving their worth on the farm through field scouting and development of management zones for precision farming applications. But there are many that see drones as an overblown camera or a fun toy, not fully recognizing the present usefulness and future potential of... Read More
With government funding programs comes last minute changes and updates, but never fear, RealAgriculture and Ontario Soil and Crop Improvement Association regional program lead, Margaret May, have joined forces to bring you the latest updates to GF2 programming (That's Growing Forward 2, for all of you who have been hiding under a rock). Of particular... Read More
Ladies and gentlemen, farmers and agronomists, we've hit triple digits! That's right, this week's episode of Wheat Pete's Word is number 100, and from all of us here at RealAgriculture thank you for following along and making this podcast a huge success in a short time. Host Peter Johnson has made the most of this... Read More
It may not be the Great One, but this sure is the number 99 episode of Wheat Pete's Word. To celebrate, your host Peter Johnson answers your questions from the week that was, and there are some great ones. From how early is too early for wheat in Western Canada, to why canola is a... Read More