Category: Podcasts

Thanks for tuning in to this Wednesday edition of RealAg Radio, brought to you by Syngenta Canada and recorded live at Crop Production Show in Saskatoon, Sask. Host Shaun Haney is joined by Jen Maier, of Syngenta Canada, to discuss the Miravis family of fungicides, as well as Nathan Klages, with Syngenta Canada, to discuss... Read More

Highly engaged wheat growers wanting to learn how to grow better wheat are driving expansion of the Great Lakes Yield Enhancement Network (YEN). Coordinated by the Grain Farmers of Ontario, Michigan State University, Michigan Wheat Program, the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs, and the University of Guelph, the Great Lakes YEN project... Read More

The announcement in late November that Health Canada is moving forward with a label change for lamba-cy insecticide products, ie. Matador and Silencer, effective April 2023, immediately set off alarms across Western Canada regarding problems with flea beetle control in canola. Ontario agronomists and growers then began to ask if they too would have access... Read More

Waterhemp that's resistant to multiple herbicide groups continues to march across Ontario, but growers still have options to control the weed. There's also emerging proof that integrated management could help growers take the fight to the spreading yield robber, says University of Guelph weed scientist Dr. Peter Sikkema. At the Ontario Agricultural Conference earlier this... Read More

Thanks for tuning in to this Tuesday edition of RealAg Radio, brought to you by SeedMaster Manufacturing. Host Shaun Haney is joined at the Crop Production Show at Saskatoon, by a farmer panel including: Keith Fornier, vice chair of SaskCanola; Shaun Dyrland, chair of SaskPulse; and Brett Halstead, chair of SaskWheat Don't miss our spotlight... Read More

Who's buying, who's growing, and who's selling? Chuck Penner, founder of Leftfield Commodity Research, gave a grain market outlook at the Western Canada Crop Production Show at Saskatoon this week. RealAgriculture's Atley Hamlin caught up with Penner and asked about the pea, lentil, and chickpea market factors at play for the year ahead. Starting with... Read More

Welcome back to The Agronomists! We're kicking off 2023 with a focus on profitability. Is top yield the driver, or is long-term thinking a better bet for profit planning? Joining host Lyndsey Smith to dig in to this topic is Chad Anderson, of Anderson Agronomy Services, and Edgar Hammermeister, Saskatchewan farmer and agrologist with Western... Read More

After spending close to 2,500 hours over the last five years operating a sprayer equipped with optical spraying technology on his farm near Fisk, Saskatchewan, Carl deConinck Smith is not only an early adopter, but also a proponent of weed-sensing technology on sprayers. "Five years ago, we felt it was about a three-year return on... Read More

Thanks for tuning in to this Agronomic Monday edition of RealAg Radio, bought to you by Alliance Seeds. Host Shaun Haney is joined by Peter ‘Wheat Pete’ Johnson, RealAgriculture’s resident agronomist, to discuss take-aways from the Ontario Ag conference. We will also hear a clip with Bern Tobin and Jeffrey Schussler, of Schussler Ag Solutions,... Read More

For many in parts of southern Ontario, the summer dryness of '22 caused stress and poor yields. Looking ahead, what's in store for weather trends, water cycles, and average temperatures? At last week's Ontario Agricultural Conference, Bernard Tobin caught up with Michigan State University professor of meteorology and climatology, Jeff Andresen, to talk about what... Read More