Category: Crops

On the eve of 2017, we wrap up the calendar year with one last instalment of Wheat Pete's Word. From a recent land price record, to so many questions on fertilizer timing, placement, and products, and finally on to a great deep dive into single and double cut clover, Johnson tackles alfalfa discussions, the true... Read More

After a week in the sunny south (no, not Chatham), Peter Johnson returns for this latest Wheat Pete's Word. Always one to keep it festive, Johnson kicks off this week's word with a lovely chat about hog manure, moves on to grain storage problems in cold weather, and even tackles some wild claims of lowering... Read More

Syngenta and DuPont say they expect a new herbicide chemistry class to be created by 2023, after announcing the publishing of a joint patent on Monday. Collaboration between the two companies on the project started in 2015 and has resulted in a patent for "Substituted cyclic amides and their use as herbicides." "We are very... Read More

As Canadians, we love to speculate on what the impact will be for farmers under the Trump presidency. The degree of changes as it relates to the EPA, trade, and immigration are all up for debate. At the recent Montana Grain Growers meeting in Great Falls, Shaun sat down with three Montana farmers in this... Read More

Canadian farmers are world leaders in growing pulses, but Canadian consumers are way behind in actually consuming these good-for-you ingredients. As we wrap up the International Year of Pulses, Shaun Haney sat down with Delaney Seiferling to reflect on not just this last year's spotlight on the crop, but also significant changes over the last... Read More

Two inches. That’s deep enough tillage for Dutton, Ontario, farmer Dave Durham. He uses a Great Plains Turbo-Max vertical tillage unit to "tickle" a wide rage of soils on his farm, including muck, sand and clays. In the latest episode of Real Agriculture’s Tillage Talk, agronomists Peter Johnson and Al McCallum quiz Durham about his... Read More