Category: Podcasts

In episode 17 of The Truth About Ag podcast, co-hosts Kristjan Hebert and Evan Shout sit down with Dean Klippenstine, partner and business advisor with MNP’s Agriculture team. Klippenstine shares insights from his extensive career in agriculture and business, touching on risk management, succession planning, and how collaboration between advisors and producers can unlock growth... Read More

Words such as planned, rotational, management intensive and adaptive multi-paddock have all been used to describe grazing methods that mimic the movement of wildlife that would have grazed the Prairies many years ago. Some of these are also words that Kelly Sidoryk uses to describe her family's grazing strategies. Sidoryk and her family had initially... Read More

Thanks for tuning in to this Tuesday with Lyndsey edition of RealAg Radio! Host Lyndsey Smith is joined by: Kelvin Heppner with RealAgriculture to discuss U.S. president-elect Donald Trump's 25 per cent tariffs threat; Lance Zimmerman with Rabobank on beef buying at higher retail prices; Garnet Volk with Conexus Credit Union on the Ag Grow... Read More

One of the most powerful and inexpensive tools farmers have in the pest management toolbox is crop rotation. A well-planned rotation can add yield stability, more yield, decreased weed and insect pressure, and keep diseases in check. The question is, how do we know which crops should be in a rotation and what benefits we... Read More

With less than two months until his inauguration, U.S. president-elect Donald Trump says he's going to sign an executive order on his first day back in the White House imposing 25 per cent tariffs on all products coming from Canada and Mexico. Posting on his Truth Social platform late Monday, Trump announced the plan to... Read More

Thanks for tuning in to this Agronomic Monday edition of RealAg Radio. Host Shaun Haney is joined by: Dr. Breanne Tidemann of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada on managing herbicide resistant weeds; Bryant Luers with LG Seeds on corn hybrid diversification; Colin Rush with Bourgault on their equipment launches; Hear a clip from a recent Soil... Read More

When does it make sense to re-tile cash crop fields? That's a thought process that Mount Brydges, Ont., farmer Larry Cowan shares with RealAgriculture's Bernard Tobin in this report, recorded earlier this summer. Cowan has been retiling an average of 150 acres each year for the past eight years. In this field, which was tiled... Read More

For the average Canadian, the long, lonely drive along the Trans-Canada Highway across southern Saskatchewan and Alberta is capital B boring. For those not from the Prairies, the seemingly endless, mostly flat landscape can seem underwhelming when you're used to rolling hills and mountains or cities and towns. But those who take the time to... Read More

Wheat is a unique crop, in that it is grown and consumed in every arable region of the world. But all that production and demand also means wheat is one of the most competitive commodities to grow and most challenging to gauge market direction. Darren Padget, past chair of U.S. Wheat Associates, says that all... Read More

There is no denying that access to a rough terrain vehicle (RTV) is a huge advantage when getting things done on the farm. Whether a producer is repairing fences, transporting mineral, or moving equipment between outbuildings, these workhorses have the potential to make life just that much easier. Farm work is exactly where the design... Read More