Marketed as "the world's first cordless fencing stapler," the STOCKade ST400i won first place in the innovation contest at Agri-Trade in Red Deer, Alta., this fall. The cordless stapler has more power than a pneumatic fencing stapler and does not require a compressor and hoses, notes Axle Boris of Langley, BC-based FenceFast Ltd., in this... Read More
Category: Eastern Canada
The third annual Global Youth Agriculture Summit will be held from October 9 to 13, 2017 in Brussels, Belgium. The 2017 summit is hosted by Bayer and two Belgian young farmers associations, Groene Kring and Fédération des Jeunes Agriculteurs. Canada will send four selected candidates to the summit, two of which will be chosen through... Read More
"Baby, It's Cold Outside" is a Christmas classic, written by Frank Loesser in 1944, in which a female singer explains why she's unable to stay for a romantic evening. As anybody who has animals that need tending knows, the idyllic moments of the holidays can be fleeting. It's less cozy time in front of a... Read More
London, Ontario-area dairy farmer and Real Ag contributor Andrew Campbell is at it again (or still!), launching another online ag awareness project for 2017. Following up on his work with #farm365, he's planning to visit and shine a spotlight on 52 Canadian farms in 52 weeks. "I thought it'd be kind of neat to start... Read More
Food and conversations are two fundamental parts of holiday plans for many people, as we head out to Christmas dinners and New Year parties with family and friends. If you're a farmer, chances are someone will ask "how was harvest?" or "how'd the weather impact your farm this year?" or the popular "how much is... Read More
Innovation is a constant part of life on most farms. A farmer's mind is often focused on figuring out how to make something run more efficiently. Together with Dow AgroSciences we're excited to launch the 2017 season of the TechTour here on RealAgriculture. Over the coming months we are going to shine a spotlight on... 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
Wouldn't it be nice to know if you were low on water well before you headed to the field? Chris Sobchuk, of Allen Leigh Securities, distributors of CowCam and more, shows Shaun Haney how this latest gadget not only measures when a trough is low or gone dry, but also alerts you via text message... Read More
Every decade or so, the rest of the world realizes how cool it is to be a farmer — to be someone with “natural capital," that is, a steward of natural resources such as healthy soil, clean water, and good air. In my lifetime, it’s happened a few times in North America, driven initially by... Read More
The Ontario government recently rolled out its Pollinator Health Action Plan, a draft of which had been put forward in January, 2016, and up for discussion. The final product, found here, is remarkably similar, and, as many have commented, it's a solid, balanced approach to improving honeybee and native pollinator health in the province. The... Read More