20 years ago, when Rob Fagnou started as marketing specialist with Bourgault Industries, he wondered who would even need the company’s latest 225 bushel air cart. This year, at Canada’s Farm Progress Show, the company unveiled a 1300 bushel cart as a compliment to its 100-foot-wide air drill. As Fagnou explains in the video below,... Read More
Category: Eastern Canada
Grain prices started falling back this week as moisture finally hit some areas of Western Canada and reported decent conditions of already-planted crops in the Midwest. There are, however, a significant amount of soybean acres that still have not been planted in major states like Missouri, Illinois, and Iowa because of persistent wet conditions. Ultimately,... Read More
Syngenta Canada Inc. has announced the registration and launch of Clariva pn seed treatment, a biological seed treatment for the management of soybean cyst nematode (SCN). Clariva pn works by reducing SCN feeding and reproduction, a "targeted, direct and proven solution," to the pest, says Nathan Klages, seedcare and inoculants product lead with Syngenta Canada.... Read More
The Canadian Cattlemen’s Foundation (CCF) officially launched this week with a golf tournament and much celebrating. RealAgriculture’s Shaun Haney spoke with CCF chair Bob Lowe from the event to highlight what the foundation is all about — building and sustaining the Canadian cattle industry by focusing on youth and leadership, environmental sustainability, and timely research.... Read More
Drake, Saskatchewan-based manufacturer Bergen Industries is following the mantra “two is better than one” with a new farm auger setup advertised to move 600 bushels of grain per minute. The concept and huge capacity of the “Double Barrel Auger” drew plenty of attention at the 2015 Farm Progress Show in Regina, including from the show’s... Read More
The Pest Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA) has tallied up the in-season bee death numbers for both 2014 and 2015 (planting only), and the numbers are nothing short of staggering. The PMRA recently reported to the federal bee health roundtable that during the planting period there was roughly a 70% decrease in the number of reported... Read More
The dry conditions in much of the west are underlying many conversations and decisions at Canada’s Farm Progress Show in Regina while excess moisture is causing problems in Ontario. Here’s this week’s news update, featuring Norm Hall of the Agricultural Producers Association of Saskatchewan and others: Find more coverage of the ’15 Farm Progress Show... Read More
The 5th annual UCVM Beef Cattle Conference is officially underway today, following a rather insightful day of pre-conference workshops at the University of Calgary’s Spyhill Campus. The pre-conference dealt with proper management of cattle, covering low-stress handling techniques, treatment protocols and humane euthanasia. For now, I’ll report on the middle ground, as I’ve covered cattle... Read More
If you’re not at Canada’s Farm Progress Show right now, you’ve likely been sent pictures of what can only be described as a behemoth of a drill parked on the show’s grounds. The 100-foot-wide Bourgault 3420 Paralink hoe drill is turning heads and possibly making farmers back way up to take in the full view... Read More
Have a fleet on the field and need to know which one will need fuel first? That's just one of the many metrics you can see, track and act on through AGCO's AGCOMMAND. In this episode of TechTour, Shaun Haney is joined by Eric Lescourret, of AGCO, to talk about AGCOMMAND's updated interface, the streamlined... Read More