Canadian farmers planted 22.8 million acres of canola and 7.3 million acres of soybeans this spring, according to the Statistics Canada acreage report published on Thursday. For canola, that's well beyond the record area projected in April of 22.4 million, and 12 percent higher than the 20.4 million acres grown in 2016. While there are... Read More
Category: Eastern Canada
What's with all the hail and rain? In this week's episode of Wheat Pete's Word, RealAg agronomist Peter Johnson once again talks about the extreme weather Ontario has been facing, including the hail, and what it'll take to recover. He expresses excitement about some beautiful barley he's seeing, but also disappointment as he talks of... Read More
Ontario crops have experienced widespread hail damage in recent weeks and many growers are asking how they can minimize the yield impact. In this episode of RealAgriculture Corn School, agronomist Peter Johnson takes us to a field of eight-leaf corn that has been shredded by a recent hailstorm. He says at this stage, yield loss... Read More
Despite the creation of new dicamba formulations that are much less volatile and an unprecedented education campaign on how to reduce spray drift, reports of dicamba drift injury are piling up in the U.S. The complaints coincide with the release of Monsanto's Xtend soybeans, which contain the dicamba tolerance trait that many farmers have been... Read More
Canada's Competition Bureau announced Tuesday that it has reached an agreement with Dow and DuPont to address concerns about reduced competition resulting from the companies' proposed merger. The conditions are similar to requirements laid out by regulators in the European Union and U.S. The Bureau's main concerns in agriculture stemmed from the loss of rivalry... Read More
Editor's note: This article was updated on June 28 with additional information regarding the Dot Technology Corp, the DOT Power Platform and quotes from DOT inventor Norbert Beaujot. A new sister company to SeedMaster is planning to unveil a major innovation in autonomous agriculture in the next few weeks. The Emerald Park, Sask. company had... Read More
Dairy Farmers of Canada (DFC) will likely be without an executive director when negotiations on a new North American Free Trade Agreement begin later this summer, where the U.S. will push to gain increased access to the Canadian dairy market. DFC's current executive director, Caroline Emond, has decided to step down effective July 4th. A... Read More
The wealth of information available to producers though digital ag platforms has created some on-farm data management issues. A survey earlier this year shows most producers are gathering agronomic data electronically, but many are not yet using that data for management purposes. Could that change, as companies try to make it easier to put data... Read More
Nearly four years after being acquired by Vaderstad, Saskatchewan-based air seeder manufacturer Seed Hawk is now a full-fledged member of its Swedish parent company's equipment family. Known for their burgundy colour, Seed Hawk drills were on display in Vaderstad's bright red paint with yellow trim and font at Canada's Farm Progress Show in Regina last... Read More
Now officially under ChemChina's ownership, Syngenta says it's aiming to expand its seed business, and is "considering targeted acquisitions with a focus on seeds." ChemChina CEO and chair Ren Jianxin was elected chair of Syngenta's board of directors at a general shareholder meeting in Basel, Switzerland on Monday, where he said Syngenta will maintain operational... Read More