The governments of New Zealand and Canada are both claiming victory in a dispute settlement ruling on the way Canada administers dairy market access under the CPTPP trade deal. The dispute panel sided with New Zealand on two of the country's main complaints, agreeing that Canada's pooling system for allocating dairy tariff rate quotas (TRQs)... Read More
Category: Eastern Canada
How does farm drainage work and why is it important for agriculture? Those are the first two questions we'll tackle on Talking Tile, a new RealAgriculture video series designed to share insights on Ontario farm drainage. In the months ahead, we'll look at everything from the impact on yield to how farmers can maintain their... Read More
We know that agriculture plays an important role in both greenhouse gas emissions and carbon sequestration; however Dr. Joy Agnew of Olds College of Agriculture and Technology says we are missing half the picture when it comes to measuring agriculture's overall carbon footprint. "There's the emissions side, which everyone seems to be talking about and... Read More
The Ontario Agriculture College (OAC), at the University of Guelph (U of G) has announced a new master's program, focused on plant agriculture. Scheduled to start in Fall of 2024, the program — housed in the Department of Plant Agriculture — will address the demands of employers in the private and public sectors who are... Read More
Väderstad has announced the discontinuation of the Concord brand beginning with the 2024 model year. Instead, a selection of its products and design elements will be incorporated into the Väderstad air seeder lineup in the near future. In May 2021, Väderstad acquired AGCO-Amity JV, which included the Concord, Wil-Rich and Wishek brands. Since the acquisition,... Read More
There are many different approaches to harvesting edible beans, from typical combine setups used for other crops to harvesters designed specifically for beans. Specialized bean combines have historically been pull-type designs, but a new machine harvesting beans on a farm in southern Manitoba is believed to be the first factory-built self-propelled bean combine in Canada.... Read More
Goooooood day, and welcome to this episode of Wheat Pete's Word! On this episode of The Word, host Peter "Wheat Pete" Johnson asks about BIG soybeans, bad weeds, and of course, seeing as it's the end of August — it's agronomy, agronomy, agronomy. Have a question you’d like Wheat Pete to address or some field... Read More
Statistics Canada (StatsCan) released the model-based principal field crop estimates report earlier this week. It is no real surprise to anyone that there were some pretty big year-over-year production cuts across a lot of commodities. Brian Comeault of Farmers Business Network (FBN), joined RealAg Radio host Lyndsey Smith to discuss the latest report, and dig... Read More
If you are at Farm Progress Show this week, you are likely seeing crowds gathered around a very strange looking machine. Terrakamp's Next Generation Agriculture Technology machine, or NEXAT, was developed in Europe, and is now being showcased around the world so farmers can see the machine for themselves in person. The "all-in-one system tractor"... Read More
Statistics Canada (StatsCan) has published data providing a socioeconomic snapshot of Canada’s evolving farm population. As of 2021, the farm population represents just 1.6 per cent of the total population in Canada. But how are they categorized? Data from the census shows that the face of Canada's farm population is changing — farm households are... Read More