Category: Podcasts

The ability to stay within maximum residue limits (MRLs) can make or break a grain deal. Export markets keep a keen eye on whether imported crops meet specific tolerance for disease, toxins and pesticide residues, and MRLs play a key role in facilitating trade and establishing the ground rules for global market accessibility. Earlier this... Read More

It hurts RealAgriculture agronomist Peter Johnson to talk about broadcasting winter wheat seed into standing soybeans, but growers have been peppering him with questions about the practice. Johnson would rather see growers plant wheat with a drill but with many Ontario soybean fields "green as grass" as the calendar turns to September, in some areas... Read More

Thanks for tuning in to this episode of Tuesdays with Lyndsey! On today’s show, hear from: Mike Cowbrough with Ontario Ministry of Agriculture Food and Rural Affairs, on Palmer amaranth confirmed; Mark Versluys, Corteva Agriscience on herbicide options for thistles; Tara Mulhern Davidson with Lonesome Dove Ranch on business risk programs and managing drought; and,... Read More

And just like that, we're onto the last episode of The Agronomists for the month of August. Time flies when we're having fun, hopefully you all are, too! For this episode of The Agronomists, host Lyndsey Smith is joined by Brunel Sabourin of Antara Agronomy, and Peter "Wheat Pete" Johnson of RealAgriculture, to discuss when... Read More

Thanks for tuning in to this special Monday edition of RealAg Radio, recorded at the BASF InVigor Series game — Winnipeg Goldeyes vs Kansas City Monarchs — on Saturday. Guest host Kelvin Heppner is joined by Dan Chase, director of sales and marketing with the Winnipeg Goldeyes to discuss the league and organization and some... Read More

Palmer amaranth, the aggressive and highly competitive pigweed species that U.S. farmers have been tussling with for almost 30 years, has been found in Ontario. Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs weed specialist Mike Cowbrough says DNA testing has confirmed that a plant found in a Wellington County field is palmer amaranth. He... Read More

On this weekend’s show, guest host Lyndsey Smith is joined by: Tara Mulhern Davidson of Lonesome Dove Ranch, on enduring drought and business risk management programs; Megz Reynolds with Do More Ag on harvest stress; and Breanne Tidemann with a discussion on herbicide resistant wild oats, what now? Plus hear what details we have on... Read More

Thanks for tuning in to the RealAg Issues Panel on RealAg Radio! Today's host Lyndsey Smith is joined by RealAgriculture’s Kelvin Heppner and an Ontario farmer Andrew Campbell. They discuss a number of topics, including: Trade relations between Canada and India; Six new countries join BRICS; If Trudeau should run again; and, Some interesting Stats... Read More

Brian Grete, editor of Pro Farmer, uses one word to sum up this week's crop tour: hot. But it's not crop yield that's sizzling, but the crop itself. Extremely hot temperatures followed the team of nearly 100 field scouts on the four-day tour of seven states collecting over 1800 corn and soybean samples, he says.... Read More

Tara Mulhern Davidson has been ranching for over 15 years, and has had to manage through several severe droughts in the last five. The perpetual dryness is weighing on planning for the long-term, she says, but there's also the every day challenges of working with a living commodity. Davidson's Lonesome Dove Ranch is based at... Read More