The New Holland's P2082 double shoot disc drill takes seed and fertilizer placement seriously. This new drill is designed for accurate one-pass placement of seed and fertilizer for uniform emergence, better stands and higher yields, says New Holland. It's available in seeding widths of 30, 40, 50 and 60 feet with available 10-inch row spacing.... Read More
Category: Crops
Can dissolved urea increase your wheat yield? If it burns the crop will it still put more bushels in the bin? In this episode of RealAgriculture's Wheat School we catch up with our resident agronomist Peter Johnson as he inspects a field of winter wheat that received 15 gallons per acre of dissolved urea with... Read More
Give a boy a burdock plant, and he'll be irritated for a day. Teach a boy to kill said burdock plant, and he just may go on to be a provincial weed control specialist. At least, that's the path that Clark Brenzil, weed specialist for the Saskatchewan Ministry of Agriculture, took. In this episode of... Read More
The reality is that farms are getting bigger and fields farther apart. Time spent on the road is time not spent doing field work, so there's a lot of focus right now on tracks that handle travel at road speed to get between fields faster. RealAgriculture's Kelvin Heppner caught up with Martin Lunkenbein, Camso's business... Read More
In its second production estimate for the year, Statistics Canada believes this year's harvest will result in a record corn harvest. It’s projected there will be 14.5 million tonnes of grain corn harvested this fall, up 2.6% from 2017. The increase in production is the result of a combination of increased harvested area (+2.4%) from... Read More
Ontario's vegetable processing industry has certainly faced its share of challenges in the last few years, but Cathy Lennon, general manager with Ontario Processing Vegetable Growers, says that there are also some great news stories of companies investing and expanding in the province. Lennon, whose organization represents over 380 tomato, cucumber, carrot, squash (and more!)... Read More
While in Boone, Iowa, for the Farm Progress Show, RealAgriculture's Kelvin Heppner had a chance to check in with Ben Dillon, president of Tribine Industries, about where things are at with his new twist on the combine. In this interview, Dillon talks about his vision for a new generation of harvesters. "What we've been doing... Read More
Harvest is rolling, rolling, rolling, and the rush is on perhaps more than most years as the Ontario crop is rushing towards dry and even too-dry at an incredible rate. In this week's Wheat Pete's Word, host Peter Johnson rounds up some pretty impressive soybean and dry bean yields, while silage yields disappoint, though that's... Read More
It's time for corn growers to take a hard look at variable rate planting. That was agronomist Pat Lynch's message to growers as they watched variable rate planters in action at Canada's Outdoor Farm Show (COFS) in Woodstock, Ontario. In this episode of RealAgriculture's Corn School, Lynch says the ability to adjust seed population while... Read More
Soybeans are most often grown places that get abundant rain, particularly in August. This usually happens in southern Manitoba, so an unusual problem is emerging there: soybeans are drying down, but staying green. In this episode of the Soybean School, RealAgriculture's Dale Leftwich talks to Glenda Clezy, regional grow team advisor with Federated Co-op, about... Read More