Believe it or not, winter is going to quickly come to an end, and cattle markets are picking up on this. As we pass mid-February, the seasonality in the cutout price is starting to pick up, says Anne Wasko of the Gateway Livestock Exchange, as we make it through the lull of January and February.... Read More
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The former governor of the Bank of Canada says he expects inflation will drop quicker than many are predicting and that real interest rates will remain low in the long term. Stephen Poloz shared his economic outlook during a keynote presentation at the CropConnect Conference in Winnipeg on Wednesday. Many of the economic parameters that... Read More
Thanks for tuning in to this special Thursday edition of RealAg Radio, recorded LIVE! at the National Farm Machinery Show, at Louisville, Kentucky, brought to you by Syngenta Canada. Host Shaun Haney is joined by Tyne Morgan, of the U.S. Farm Report, to discuss supply chain issues, and Marijke Vanderlaan, Syngenta Canada is on to... Read More
The oat market is somehow managing to garner positive attention, even as "burdensome, massive oat supplies" weigh on the market. Randy Strychar, president of Oatinformation, presented at CropConnect in Winnipeg, Man., this week and says barring a major weather event, it will take 18-24 months to chew through the current large oat supply. But despite... Read More
Farmers and the agriculture industry are still waiting to hear about "What we heard" when it comes to the federal government's fertilizer emissions reduction target. This week, at the Future of Food event at Ottawa, Ont., Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food Marie-Claude Bibeau was quite positive about the timeline of a fertilizer tariff money announcement... Read More
Happy Canadian Ag Day! Thanks for tuning in to this special Wednesday edition of the Farmer Rapid Fire on RealAg Radio! Guest host Kara Oosterhuis is joined by: Rebecca Archibald of Truro, N.S.; Kevin Buchner of Brownsville, Ont.; Ron Krahn of Rivers, Man.; and, Todd Hames of Marwayne, Alta. Thoughts on something we talked about... Read More
It's Canada's Ag Day, and it's time to celebrate the food and farmers you love. How are you celebrating? That's how Peter "Wheat Pete" Johnson kicks off this week's Wheat Pete's Word before diving in to the topics and questions of the week, including if cover crops are really going to be dead come spring,... Read More
Happy Valentine's Day! Thanks for tuning in to this Tuesday edition of RealAg Radio. Guest host Lyndsey Smith is joined by Shawn Schill to discuss land rental agreements and land price direction. Then you'll hear an interview with Kara Oosterhuis and Gerald Stokka, extension veterinarian at North Dakota State University, on cold weather calving and... Read More
Nitrogen can't have all the fun — sometimes we need to bring in the lesser-knowns of the NPKS party. For this episode of The Agronomists, we dive in to the world of sulphur: why crops need it, why farmers have to add it, and how to diagnose and correct a deficiency. Our experts are Colin... Read More
In 2022, the top 20 growers in the Great Lakes Yield Enhancement Network (YEN) harvested 50 bu/ac more wheat than the bottom 20 growers in overall yield rankings. What's really surprising, says RealAgriculture agronomist Peter Johnson, is that this gap exists despite there being only a five percent difference in yield potential between the two... Read More