Category: Podcasts

After 40 years in the cattle business, a Canadian veterinarian, entreprenuer, and cattle feeder legend got the tip of the hat and was inducted in to the Cattle Feeders Hall of Fame last week during the National Cattlemen's Beef Association cattle convention. Kee Jim, from Okotoks, Alta., founder of Feedlot Health Management Services Ltd. and... Read More

Choosing the right protection product for nitrogen fertilizer comes down to hedging against the most likely risk of loss. Enhanced efficiency nitrogen fertilizers, sometimes referred to as EEFs or EENFs, work well to protect against nitrogen losses, but they don't all work in the same way or in the same situation. In this episode of... Read More

CLAAS is celebrating 50 years of Jaguar self-propelled forage harvesters. The company launched its first Jaguar in 1973 and have produced 45,000 machines over the last half century. Last November at Agritechnica, CLAAS showed off a new special edition of its Jaguar 990 Terra Trac with an exclusive anniversary colour scheme. In this report, CLAAS... Read More

Thanks for tuning in to this Tuesdays with Lyndsey edition of RealAg Radio, brought to you by Koch Agronomic Services! Host Lyndsey Smith is joined by: Tom Barrie, in a spotlight interview for Koch Agronomic Services on protecting nitrogen fertilizer losses; Stuart Chutter with Agriculture Financial Services Corporation on their insurance program to help with... Read More

John Deere is set to roll out its 26 P-Tier telescopic compact wheel loader for 2024. The new unit was on display at the National Cattlemen's Beef Association's cattle convention, last week in Florida. RealAgriculture's Shaun Haney spoke with go-to-market manager at John Deere Agriculture & Turf, Luke Gribble, to get the specs on this... Read More

For years, even decades, one crop's boost in productivity because of following a different crop was put down as the "rotation effect." As we begin to unravel what the rotation effect actually is, it's clear that rooting depth and type, root exudates, and microbial population shifts all play a role in contributing to the bigger... Read More

A Saskatchewan based start-up is deploying a combination of cameras and machine learning to automate and dramatically reduce the time it takes to grade a sample of grain. Ground Truth Ag has developed a machine with a vision detection model that can assess around 50 different grading factors for Canada Western red spring wheat, as... Read More

Thanks for tuning into this Agronomic Monday edition of RealAg Radio! On this episode, host Shaun Haney is joined by: Matt Makens with Makens Weather on the weather forecast for spring; Jason Deveau of Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, on why spray drones won’t fly any time soon on Canadian farms; and, A clip from a... Read More

After decades of trending smaller, rebuilding North America's cow herd will not begin until 2025 at the earliest, according to a new report from Rabobank's senior animal protein analyst. One of the challenges that needs to be overcome to rebuild a resilient supply chain is the boom-bust nature of each segment, from the cow-calf producer... Read More

From closing the bale chute to kicking that last bale out of the baler, Case IH, with help from ISOBUS technology, now delivers a higher level of automated baler controls from inside the tractor cab. In this report from Agritechnica, CNH Industrial baler automation guru Gerd Gerdes shares some of the features North America farmers... Read More