Peter "Wheat Pete" Johnson is back for this episode of RealAg LIVE! and he's brought his own fancy charts and weather requests. Listen below or download the podcast for later, and get a mid-season agronomy update for Ontario, some crop info for water use, and a nitrogen comparison show-down. Don’t miss RealAg LIVE! each Tuesday... Read More
Category: Crop Production
Usually when a farmer considers using a planter in Western Canada, it's to plant canola crops, not pulse crops. But there are those exploring that option in Alberta. Scott Gillespie, independent agronomist with Plants Dig Soil Consulting, has been working at scaling up plot trials he first saw at Farming Smarter. In this episode of... Read More
The organizers of the CropConnect Conference have made the decision to cancel the 2021 event. CropConnect, held each year at the Victoria Inn Hotel and Convention Centre at Winnipeg, is hosted by Manitoba Canola Growers Association, Manitoba Corn Growers Association, Manitoba Flax Growers Association, Manitoba Pulse & Soybean Growers, Manitoba Oat Growers Association, Manitoba Seed... Read More
A certain caterpillar that blew in on the wind may be wreaking havoc in your cereal crops. John Gavloski, provincial entomologist for Manitoba Agriculture and Resource Development, joined Kara Oosterhuis for this episode of Wheat School to talk all things armyworm. Armyworm is different from bertha armyworm in a few ways: their preferred food is... Read More
It's not traditionally a time of year where we see big boosts to several crop price complexes, but what about 2020 has been normal? In this grain market Q&A LIVE!, Brian Voth, of IntelliFarm, sits down with sports-starved host Shaun Haney to talk corn, canola, soybeans, ethanol, baseball, spring wheat and more! Don’t miss RealAg... Read More
Grow great wheat! It's a catchy slogan, sure, but HOW do you grow great wheat? In this episode of the Wheat School, Peter "Wheat Pete" Johnson is fired up about the synergistic relationship between wheat inputs. "As we add all these fungicides, we add more nitrogen, we add these plant growth regulators, how does that... Read More
Wheat yield results are starting to trickle in from across Ontario, and the verdict is... pretty good! In this mid-July edition of Wheat Pete's Word, host Pete Johnson covers off what seems to have contributed to yield and what didn't seem to hold the wheat crop back. Plus, there are some insect pressures to watch... Read More
James Hammerton, who farms with his family at Sweaburg, Ont., is giving double crop soybeans a solid go, with the aid of a stripper header to harvest the preceding wheat. On this episode of the Sharp Edge, RealAgriculture's Bernard Tobin is joined by Greg Stewart, agronomy lead with Maizex Seeds. Stewart interviews Hammerton about his... Read More
It started cool, turned hot and dry, and now the rain has started to fall — just in time for corn pollination. Ontario's 2020 growing season is a far cry from perfect but it's certainly much better than last year at this point. Doug Alderman, vice president of sales and marketing for PRIDE Seeds, says... Read More
Saskatchewan has received a lot of moisture in most parts of the province this year, and with that comes a concern for diseases. Root rots have definitely shown up in peas and lentils and anthracnose in lentils is a concern this year, too. "One thing with lentils, too, when you get a lot of that... Read More