Category: Podcasts

It's been dry and cool across Ontario since soybean planting started rolling at top speed in mid-May and those conditions are causing replant headaches for many growers. Field scouting has revealed a host of soil, seed emergence, and vigour issues, including crusting and cold injury. On this episode of the RealAgriculture Soybean School, Clark Agri-Service... Read More

Thanks for tuning in to this Wednesday edition of RealAg Radio brought to you by U.S. Borax. On this episode, host Shaun Haney is joined by Ted Seifried of Zaner Ag Hedge to discuss the markets, as well as Dr. Terry Griffin, Cropping Systems Economist at Kansas State University on technology adoption on the farm.... Read More

Pop quiz: do dry conditions automatically mean a dialling back of nitrogen rates on corn? This is a tricky question to answer as very dry conditions for prolonged periods can impact yield potential, but dry conditions also mean nitrogen is less available to the plant, so it's a tough call. For the answer to why... Read More

Those in agriculture have been encouraged to "tell their story" for years, all in the name of maintaining the social license to operate, or to gain acceptance and understanding of farm practices by the public. But there's another reason for farmers and agri-business owners to tell a good story: to attract and retain great staff... Read More

Verticillium stripe — a disease first discovered in Western Canada in 2014 — appears to be taking advantage of the stress to canola plants caused by an old, familiar disease pathogen. While research to understand Verticillium longisporum in the Prairies is still in its early stages, there's a hypothesis that its prevalence in a canola... Read More

Thanks for tuning in to this Tuesday edition of RealAg Radio! We're kicking off "Tuesdays with Lyndsey" this week. On this episode, host Lyndsey Smith is joined by Omid McDonald of Dairy Distillery to talk about turning milk into ethanol. We will also hear from Tom Harrison, Saskatchewan Stock Growers Foundation, on conservation easements and... Read More

As edible bean planting wraps up across Ontario, grower focus shifts to controlling post-emergent weeds and grasses. When seed is planted to moisture, in warm soils, growers and agronomists will need to get out and scout to determine what competition, including small and actively growing weeds, the emerging crop will encounter. On this episode of... Read More

The Successors is a RealAgriculture podcast series hosted by Kara Oosterhuis focusing on agriculture from the perspective of the up-and-coming generation. How do you decide it's time for a change? What does it take to become a better communicator? And why is it so crucial to not rule any opportunity out? Lara de Moissac, based... Read More

It's corn! And it's time to discuss in-crop nitrogen management of corn on this episode of the The Agronomists. Host Lyndsey Smith is joined by Jason DeBruin of Corteva AgriScience, based at Iowa, and Peter Johnson of RealAgriculture, to discuss nitrogen management, minimizing loss, when the crop needs the N. They cover when N needs... Read More

Welcome to this Agronomic Monday edition of RealAg Radio! You’ll hear from Peter “Wheat Pete” Johnson, RealAgriculture’s resident agronomist, on a number of topics including: fungicide application in a dry year, strip till, upcoming temperatures and much more! Listen on for an audio clip from a recent Canola School with Shawn Senko, Canola Council of... Read More