When heavy summer rains arrive, Albert Tenuta's phone starts to ring. The Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs plant pathologist started hearing from growers across the province in late June as soil-borne disease moved into many soybean fields after a series of pounding rain events. When soybeans get wet feet in early summer,... Read More
Category: Podcasts
A newly-tasselled corn field indicates that silage harvest is only 45 to 50 days away. As producers speed down the runway toward silage harvest takeoff, dairy strategic accounts manager for Pioneer Seeds Canada Ashley Knapton says now's the time to look at key factors that will influence silage quality and how a well-managed silage crop... Read More
What on earth is happening right now with canola and spring wheat prices? Call it a 2021 hangover or the cruelest of come-downs, but many farmers are watching crop prices with just a pinch of melancholy as the bears seem to be making themselves at home again in the canola and spring wheat markets. To... Read More
The current recommendation of not exceeding two to three parts per million of ergot alkaloids in ruminant feed could be too high, according to research being conducted at the University of Saskatchewan. Dr. Gabriel Ribeiro is an associate professor there and the Saskatchewan Beef Industry Chair, and his research over the past four years has... Read More
Thanks for tuning in for this Wednesday edition of RealAg Radio. Join host Shaun Haney for a listen now, or hit that download or subscribe button and listen later. On today's show, hear: Brian Voth of IntelliFarm with a canola and wheat market analysis; Voth on the fundamentals of past and current weather markets; Justin... Read More
Just last week, Chip Flory and Shaun Haney were talking about unlikely market moves and the unpredictability of a weather market, with a discussion on the risk of a sliding market. This week, Shaun is back again talking weather markets, but this time with Brian Voth, founder of IntelliFARM. Voth is keen on looking back... Read More
Some herbicides aren't very effective at controlling a weed like horsetail, but when you combine two poor-performing products, they can deliver a surprising level of control. In weed science terms, this ability of different active ingredients to team up and deliver a knockout blow is called herbicide synergy. On this episode of the RealAgriculture Soybean... Read More
When looking at any pesticide label there should be three words that make you stop, think, and mark the calendar: pre-harvest interval. The pre-harvest interval — PHI — is the minimum time necessary between application of a product and cutting the crop, either by swathing or straight-cutting. As Sheri Strydhorst explains in this RealAgriculture Wheat... Read More
Canada is a country of 40 million, and while we're also an exporting nation, many crop types grown here are at such a small scale that the economics just don't work to have a company go through the steps required to register a pesticide for use. That's where the Minor Use program through the Pest... Read More
We are in for a treat this week as host of Wheat Pete's Word, Peter Johnson, sends us this weekly podcast update while on vacation in Portugal. In the line up for today's discussion: test weight vs. yield, falling number and binning wheat, stored grain pests, struggling beans, and some great discussion on cover crop... Read More