Welcome to another Monday edition of RealAg Radio! We're excited to bring you a jam-packed agronomy show to start out your week. You'll hear from: Peter "Wheat Pete" Johnson, RealAgriculture's resident agronomist, with an agronomy update from the east; Matt Chapple of PRIDE Seeds, on corn and soybean agronomy; Russell Trischuk of BASF, with an... Read More
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Thanks for tuning into this Friday edition of RealAg Radio. First up, you'll hear an interview with B.C. Agriculture Minister Lana Popham, on the flooding aftermath. Then, you'll hear an issues panel featuring Lyndsey Smith, Kelvin Heppner, and Christina Crowley-Arklie, of Crowley-Arklie Strategy. They'll talk about: The situation in B.C. and thoughts on Minister Popham's... Read More
Raymond and Tracey Bredenhof, of R&T Poultry and Bredenhof Hops at Abbotsford, B.C. are one of the two winners chosen as Canada's Outstanding Young Farmers for 2021. The Bredenhofs operate a 40,000 broiler per cycle chicken operation in the Fraser Valley. Poultry farms are quite common for their area, but what's less common is growing... Read More
In November, John Barlow, MP for Foothills, was re-named to the position as the Conservatives' shadow minister for agriculture. Among Barlow's current priorities is the attention — or lack thereof — that country-of-origin labelling (COOL) is currently getting in Ottawa. As the conversations grow in strength with a bipartisan bill in the U.S. senate surrounding... Read More
Using surveys and science to detect regional pathogens aren't new methods to detect diseases in pulse crops, but how are our U.S. pulse crop growing counterparts dealing with the diseases present in their areas? In this Pulse School episode, Lyndon Porter, research plant pathologist with the United States Department of Agriculture, joins Kara Oosterhuis to... Read More
What drives demand for sustainably grown soybeans? Is there a need for a sustainability program for Canadian grown soybeans and what would that look like? It's not just identity-preserved value chains that are seeing an increased demand for record keeping and assurances, says Brian Innes, executive director at Soy Canada. "What we're seeing is the... Read More
With high fertilizer prices heading into 2022, corn growers can't afford to over-apply nutrients. But they also can't risk losing money by shorting the crop of its fertility needs. On the season-ending episode of RealAgriculture's Corn School for 2021, University of Guelph associate professor Dr. David Hooker returns to comment on this conundrum and share... Read More
Minister of Agriculture for British Columbia Lana Popham says that despite the absolute devastation of the last three weeks, dairy production for the province is back to 100 per cent. Poultry production is running about about 90 per cent capacity, and the egg industry is status quo as it was less impacted by the mid-November... Read More
On this Thursday, Farmer Rapid Fire edition of RealAg Radio, you'll hear from: Amy VanderHeide of Coldbrook, N.S.; Nick Dubuc near Montreal, Que.; Eric McLean of Oak River, Man.; Scott Hepworth of Assiniboia, Sask.; and, John Kowalchuk of Rumsey, Alta. Thoughts on something we talked about on the show? Connect with host Shaun Haney via... Read More
At any current conference, no matter what sector of the agriculture industry, the word sustainability is going to pop up. Last week at the GrowCanada conference, hosted by CropLife Canada, there was a whole section of the agenda devoted to sustainability. Mary Shelman, of Shelman Group and former director of Harvard Business School's agribusiness program,... Read More