If your farm is not one that holds regular meetings, this is your encouragement to start small... but start. That's because research shows that business that hold regular meetings are more profitable than those that do not. We're not talking about a morning tailgate chat on what's ahead — that's an operational meeting to start... Read More
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The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) recently published its annual report on estimates of support to agriculture, titled the "Agricultural Policy Monitoring and Evaluation 2021." The report monitors and evaluates agricultural policies in 54 countries, including the 38 OECD countries, five non-OECD EU Member States, and 11 emerging economies. Between 2018 to 2020,... Read More
Welcome to this Tuesday edition of RealAg Radio, and thanks for taking time to listen in. On today's show you'll hear: Martin von Lampe, senior agricultural analyst at OECD, on global ag support, subsidy, and assistance programs, and how Canada stacks up; Kim Gerencser and Peter Manness of MNP, on what makes a good plan;... Read More
Welcome to another week of RealAg Radio. On today's show we've got an Agronomic Monday! You'll hear from: Carrie MacLean, agronomist at PRIDE Seeds, with an update on what's going on in Ontario; Brunel Sabourin of Antara Agronomy, on ultra-early seeded wheat and grasshopper populations in soybeans; Tyler Wist, field crop entomologist at Agriculture and... Read More
Should growers sell their wheat straw after 2021 harvest? That's a question RealAgriculture agronomist Peter Johnson has been asked often in recent weeks. With fertilizer prices up 125 per cent and straw prices hovering around three cents per pound, many growers say they would rather blow the straw back on the field, take the nutrient... Read More
Grasshoppers are a concern this year for many soybean growing areas. The decision process to spray, not to spray, when to do it, and how much of the field should get covered, requires scouting to get an average number. Brunel Sabourin of Antara Agronomy joins Kelvin Heppner in this episode of Soybean School to discuss... Read More
A recent U.S. federal reserve meeting resulted in an indication that attention to interest rate movement will be sped up in the future. "There's been a few mixed messages, actually, out of the press conferences that followed that statement of the federal reserve," says JP Gervais, chief economist at Farm Credit Canada. Gervais says it... Read More
In the uncertainty of a national carbon strategy and how a carbon offset system will work, farmers' contributions to sequestration and carbon emission mitigation efforts are frequently minimized. It seems the more knowledge there is about the exact amount of carbon sequestered in agricultural land, the more power farmers may have in lobbying for exemptions... Read More
Edible bean growers in Ontario experienced a little bit of everything in 2021 — from excellent soil conditions, to frost and hard-to-find moisture. On this episode of RealAgriculture's Edible Bean School, host Bernard Tobin and Hensall Co-op agronomist Josh Moffatt explore four different Oxford County fields, and share lessons learned from the spring planting rollercoaster.... Read More
Pulse crops can show a lot of height variability during the growing season, and this early on, staging a pulse crop for a herbicide application certainly requires more than just a drive by. "You really have to get out in a field to get staging on peas right," says Daniel Packer, senior brand manager of... Read More