A lot of angst is simmering in farm circles about the potential for disease to spread between wildlife and domestic livestock, such as poultry. The concerns are warranted, given how quickly disease can race through a herd and create huge losses. But new research from the University of Guelph into the health status of Ontario... Read More
Category: Eastern Canada
Ontario MPP for Huron-Bruce, Lisa Thompson, has launched an initiative aimed at addressing concerns that the next phase of Ontario's neonicotinoid regulations will unfairly limit farmers' choices and the professional reach of agriculture professionals. Last week, Thompson introduced to the provincial legislature Bill 4, the Supporting Agricultural Experts in Their Field Act, 2016, in counter... Read More
Agricultural advocates encourage farmers to tell their story. Maybe the most interesting storyteller on the farm would be the tractor. We're seeing tonnes of innovation in autonomous and intelligent machines — what if a tractor could tell its own story? Every tractor would have a very interesting tale to tell. The tractor pulls many implements,... Read More
A Saskatoon-based company known for its wireless grain cart (or buggy, if you prefer) weighing and data management system is bringing the technology to feed mixers in feedlots and dairies. Agrimatics will be introducing its Libra TMR (total mixed ration) system shortly, explained co-founder and CEO Ian Meier, as we caught up with him at... Read More
Canada's Outdoor Farm Show is in the books for another year, and the 2016 edition of the wrap up features not only resident agronomist Peter Johnson (@WheatPete) but also Lyndsey Smith's (triumphant?) return to RealAgriculture's signature farm show wrap. Covering a show of this magnitude takes a team, and Peter and Lyndsey highlight what they,... Read More
We’re halfway through the month of September and almost at the end of 3rd quarter of the calendar year, a point when we start to usually see lows priced into the market and the end of harvest in sight. A mostly bearish September W.A.S.D.E. report at the beginning of the week on Monday, the 12th,... Read More
With every bounce off of a new low in the cattle market, there's hope prices have finally bottomed out. October live cattle futures in the U.S. have recovered by $7-8 in the last week, after dropping to around the $100 mark in the first week of September. "Hopefully we can look back, and I know... Read More
Case IH has unveiled its latest offering in spray technology, known as AIM Command Flex. All 2017 Patriot sprayers will come factory-equipped with the nodes required to run the ISO Virtual Terminal (VT) compatible Flex system, explains Mark Burns, Case's marketing manager for application equipment, in this video. "It's the new generation of spray technology... Read More
Twenty years ago agronomist Pat Lynch had no love for subsoiling and deep rippers. But times have changed and so has Lynch's view. As 10 different deep rippers tore across a field at the Canada’s Outdoor Farm Show tillage demo earlier this week, Lynch told the gathered crowd that the evolution of farming over the... Read More
Between Bayer-Monsanto and PotashCorp-Agrium there's plenty of big news to discuss this week as we see the trend of consolidation among crop input suppliers continue. Meanwhile, RealAg is well-represented at Canada's Outdoor Farm Show in Woodstock, Ontario, as Lyndsey takes a break from demoing tractors, getting sky-high views in a telehandler and posting Instagram stories... Read More