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 when it's time to act on your true passion? What can you do to get through the cold winter months? Why do you need to learn more about yourself to... Read More
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Dennis Laycraft, executive vice president of Canadian Cattlemen's Association (CCA), is on location at the National Cattlemen's Beef Association (NCBA) annual convention happening now at Houston, Texas. Laycraft is part of the Canadian contingent and is taking part in several meetings with his U.S. and Mexican counterparts, discussing country of origin labeling, sustainability, processing capacity,... Read More
Thanks for tuning in to this midweek, Groundhog Day edition of RealAg Radio! On today's show, you'll hear: Arlan Suderman, chief commodities economist for StoneX Group Inc. with a look at the commodity markets; Sandy Hart, business manager for Sevita International, on what the opportunities are for food grade soybeans in Canada; and Dennis Laycraft... Read More
Of course we're in for six more weeks of winter, Groundhog, we live in Canada! You know what else you can expect for the next six weeks (and longer)? Wheat Pete's Word! On this week's episode, host Peter Johnson explores many topics, including some shifting thinking on sulphur, how nitrogen fertilizer can acidify soil, and... Read More
The science supporting what we know and don't know about soil health, nutrient cycling, and soil microbes builds every year. Not long ago, much of the soil management narrative focused on keeping soil covered (don't farm naked!) to minimize erosion risk and build soil. Now we know that while preventing or at least decreasing erosion... Read More
Grain farmers are known for their generosity when supplying nitrogen to the corn crop, but many growers get stingy when providing nitrogen to the soybean crop. That's a situation University of Illinois plant physiology professor Fred Below sees too often when it comes to managing the oilseed crop. In his presentation last month at the... Read More
It may not be a brand new week, but it's a new month — so we're going with that. With January out of the way... the rush of 2022 begins. On today's episode of RealAg Radio, you'll hear: Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Marie-Claude Bibeau, on all the things she's got on her plate... Read More
Host Lyndsey Smith and guests George Lazarovits of A&L Biologicals and Jon Treloar of Novozymes BioAg, discuss the evolution of biological products, what exists now, what's working, what's in the pipeline, any cautions around using biological products, and where they have made a significant difference in cropping systems. Catch a new episode of The Agronomists... Read More
The federal agriculture minister remains fully committed to her government's cross-border vaccination mandate for truck drivers, despite pressure from some industry groups and provinces to loosen the requirement to reduce the impact it's having on specific supply chains. While there's been much discussion about the direct effect the mandate could potentially have on grocery prices,... Read More
Welcome to another Agronomic Monday edition of RealAg Radio! On today's show you'll hear: Peter "Wheat Pete" Johnson, RealAg's resident agronomist; Fred Below, professor in the Crop Science department at the University of Illinois; Justin Funk, market researcher and managing partner at AgriStudies Thoughts on something we talked about on the show? Connect with host... Read More