Welcome to this Agronomic...Wednesday edition of RealAg Radio. We're live and in person again today for day three of our RealAg Summit — so needless to say, there's a couple of laughs on today's show. On today's episode featuring host Shaun Haney and panelists Kara Oosterhuis, Bernard Tobin, and Peter "Wheat Pete" Johnson, you'll hear... Read More
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What a wild week in weather for much of the Northern Plains! The blizzard of decades is settling in on Manitoba, socking in many and closing the roads. Meanwhile in Ontario, the warm sunshine is setting up some winter wheat for nitrogen application, which brings us to some great questions for Wheat Pete's Word. Host... Read More
The Canadian Cattlemen's Association (CCA) has been long-served by Bob Lowe as president, but upon his retirement from the role, Reg Schellenberg has stepped in. Heading in to the change in leadership, the cattle industry is healthy but with certain challenges ahead, including escalating input prices, severe drought, and a shrinking cow herd. Succession and... Read More
The team is in-person this week at Lethbridge, Alta., and that means we can record the radio show face to face! The panel today is made up of Shaun Haney, Kelvin Heppner, Lyndsey Smith, and Brittany Warner. On today's show, the panel: Talks money for the agriculture policy framework; Increasing inflation; Pulling cattle off grass,... Read More
Welcome to the Monday edition of RealAg Radio! On today's show, you'll hear: Nikki Vercaigne of BASF, on the importance of inoculants in your pulse crops; Albert Tenuta of the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food, and Rural Affairs (OMAFRA) on tar spot management strategies for 2022; Sheldon Toews of BASF, on soil temperatures for seeding... Read More
The cattle value chain has undergone significant pressure both to the upside and down since 2019. A major fire at a plant in the U.S. caused a backlog of processing. Soon after, COVID-19 hit. During 2020 and 2021, demand both at home and abroad skyrocketed. In short, for an industry that has to plan for... Read More
When looking at maximizing the yield on soybean crops, there are plenty of variables to consider including timing, number of passes and which ones to use exclusively, or combine a couple to elicit the desired outcome. To gain insight on these variables, we turn to another 2021 Ontario Diagnostic Days video report, where we talk... Read More
Massey Ferguson debuted their entire S Series lineup this past February at the National Farm Machinery Show in Kentucky, and today we are going to take a closer look at the 7S series, the big brother to 6S that we took you through earlier. As we look to up the ante from the 6S, the... Read More
Would you become a long distance trucker for Walmart for US$110,00 per year? The retail giant hopes so. That's just one item up for discussion on today's RealAg Radio Issues panel. Featuring Meagan Murdoch of H+K Strategies, RealAgriculture's Lyndsey Smith and Kelvin Heppner and host Shaun Haney, the panel talks #cdnag in the 2022 federal... Read More