Farm Credit Canada has added a sixth Sustainability Incentive Program for those who use FCC as their lending institution and use AgExpert Premium software. Curtis Grainger, director of lending products and sustainability programs for Farm Credit Canada, explains that this latest program provides up to $2,000 for farms that already use or implement 4R nutrient... Read More
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Winter is making itself known across all of Canada this week, after a polar vortex descended on Alberta, all the way to Ontario getting hit with snow, wind, and cold temps (for Ontario, mind you). That sparked some questions on fall-seeded crop survival, including canola, alfalfa, and wheat, which host Peter 'Wheat Pete' Johnson answers... Read More
It's taken a few years, but John Deere has quickly evolved its See & Spray technology, moving from broadcast and targeted spraying of fallow ground to weed identification and targeted spraying in-crop. In this report from Agritechnica, Deere product marketing manager Solenne Bourgeois discusses how the company has combined its ExactApply system with camera technology... Read More
It’s time for another cross-border issues podcast featuring Wiesemeyer and Haney discussing all the big agricultural topics impacting farmers and ranchers in Canada and the United States! This week, Shaun Haney of RealAgriculture and Jim Wiesemeyer, D.C. policy analyst with Pro Farmer, jump into some issues that really connect and are creating angst in the... Read More
It’s time for our “Tuesdays with Lyndsey” edition of RealAg Radio. Host Lyndsey Smith is joined by: Deb Vanberkel with the Canadian Centre for Agricultural Wellbeing on healthy and unhealthy coping mechanisms; Tyler Smith, Humboldt Bronco crash survivor discusses his mental wellness journey and winning the Amazing Race Canada; A clip from The Agronomists with... Read More
When it comes to herbicides, the power to kill weeds and protect crops rests with the active ingredient. But how products are formulated can determine whether an effective active can be a winner or a loser in the field. "Quite frankly, there are active ingredients out there that wouldn't be a product if not for... Read More
Canola is an elastic, amazingly resilient plant, but it starts as a very tiny seed and emerges under threat of certain death by very hungry flea beetles. Setting up this crop for great yield is the typical combination of establishment, nutrition, and crop protection, but in this episode of The Agronomists, we dig in to... Read More
Thanks for tuning into this Agronomic Monday edition of RealAg Radio, brought to you by Väderstad. On this episode, host Shaun Haney is joined by RealAgriculture’s in-house agronomist Peter Johnson to discuss how the cold snap can impact winter crops in the ground with a lack of snow, soybean yields, seeding rates, and more. We... Read More
It's a tough lesson in farming and ranching: learning lessons on what doesn't work can be expensive and time consuming. That's why knowledge transfer, peer-to-peer sharing, and mentorship can have a huge positive impact on those trying something new. For Grant Lastiwka, rancher at Innisfail, Alta., the Grazing Mentorship Program supported by Farmers for Climate... Read More
AGCO is touting a five to seven percentage fuel efficiency gain for its new AGCO Power Core50 engine. The 4-cylinder 5.0 litre engine first appeared in the the Fendt 600 Vario tractor and AGCO is billing it as the "most advanced diesel engine platform on the market today." It's set to debut in other AGCO... Read More