This week on The Agronomists, host Lyndsey Smith is joined by Christine O'Reilly of the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Agribusiness and Cedric MacLeod of MacLeod Agronomics to discuss the super novel and different idea of fertilizer and nutrient applications on forage stands. What productivity gains can we make? What about persistence? What nutrients... Read More
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Welcome to RealAg Radio for this Agronomic Monday edition! Today on RealAg Radio, host Lyndsey Smith unpacks the current events impacting your farm, discusses agronomy with Peter ‘Wheat Pete’ Johnson and brings you a discussion with Bernard Tobin of RealAg and Brucelea Poultry field crops manager Mark McLean on how nitrogen robots are helping navigate... Read More
For winter wheat growers chasing higher yields, Michigan State University wheat extension specialist Dennis Pennington says one management decision stands above the rest: plant on time. In this episode of RealAgriculture’s Wheat School, Pennington joins host Bernard Tobin at the C&M Seeds Wheat Wednesday field day in Palmerston, Ont., to discuss how planting date, tiller…Read More
Flax may be known for turning prairie fields blue, but those flowers are more fleeting than they look. “If you look at a flax field and it's flowering and it's beautiful and blue, those flowers that you see that day are not the same flowers you'll see tomorrow. They last one day,” says Ken Jackle,... Read More
Lupins may still be a relatively unfamiliar crop on the Canadian Prairies, but Lupin Platform Inc. is working to build both the acres and the infrastructure needed to change that. The company has officially opened its first lupin processing plant in Westlock County, Alta., marking another step in what CEO Tristan Choi describes as building... Read More
Welcome to this week’s edition of RealAg on the Weekend with host Shaun Haney! Today on the show, Haney is joined by Jon Driedger of LeftField Commodity Research on the wheat and canola markets, and Jenna Rae Seward of Cronkhite Ag on swathing! Thoughts on something we talked about on the show? Connect with host... Read More
Thanks for tuning in to the RealAg Issues Panel on RealAg Radio! Shaun Haney is joined by Evan Shout of Maverick Ag and Lyndsey Smith and Kelvin Heppner, both of RealAgriculture, for today’s edition of the show. Topics up for discussion: farm profitability, tariff deals or no deals, Trump's beef import idea, and Ducks Unlimited's... Read More
Eight years after building a 32-row strip-till “beast,” Greg Vermeersch says the MegaStripper has become one of the most efficient pieces of equipment at VanMeer Farms — but that doesn’t mean the farm is finished tinkering with it. In this episode of RealAgriculture’s Soil School, Vermeersch takes a closer look at the home-built strip-till unit…Read More
Tight seeding windows and wet spring conditions routinely test broad-acre producers across the Canadian Prairies, making field efficiency and tendering speed critical to getting a crop in the ground. To cover more acres with fewer stops, equipment manufacturers are expanding cart capacities and redesigning handling systems to keep drills moving during narrow planting windows. At... Read More
Thanks for tuning in to the Farmer Rapid Fire on RealAg Radio, brought to you by Pioneer Seeds Canada! Today on the show, your host Shaun Haney is joined by farmers Jay Lewis, Simon Ellis, Corey Loessin, Shaune Harty, and Pioneer agronomist Liam Bracken. 02:10 - Jay Lewis of Holstein, Ont. 15:58 - Simon Ellis... Read More