Category: Podcasts

Thanks for tuning into today's episode of RealAg Radio. Our guest host, Lyndsey Smith, has a great lineup for you! You'll hear: A Beef Market Update with Anne Wasko of the Gateway Livestock Exchange. A RealAg Issues Panel featuring Kelvin Heppner of RealAgriculture and Alberta farmer Jeff Nielsen. The panel discusses: Bill C-208, even though... Read More

If you've been following the cattle markets, you'll know that this week the Alberta fed cattle market lost some ground. This kind of behaviour is not exceptionally strange for a July cattle market, says Anne Wasko of the Gateway Livestock Exchange in the latest episode of the Beef Market Update. However, the market lost another... Read More

What if corn, like soybeans, could fix its own nitrogen? It's a question agronomist Dale Cowan and his team at AGRIS Co-operative are tackling this summer as they test a biological product that promises to help corn plants fix nitrogen, when applied directly on the seed, in pop-up fertilizer, and through foliar application between the... Read More

Thanks for tuning into this Thursday edition of RealAg Radio. On today's Farmer Rapid Fire, you'll hear from farmers across the country: Amy VanderHeide of Coldbrook, N.S.; Nick Dubuc out of southwestern Quebec; Eric McLean of Oak River Man.; Kris Mayerle of Tisdale, Sask. John Kowalchuk of Rumsey, Alta.

The Successors is a RealAgriculture podcast series hosted by Kara Oosterhuis focusing on agriculture from the perspective of the up-and-coming generation. What does it take to make critical decisions? How do you navigate developing a leadership style? Why do we sometimes need to take the advice of others, and understand that tomorrow is another day?... Read More

Thanks for tuning into this mid-week edition of RealAg Radio, brought to you by AGI SureTrack and Ag Growth International (AGI). Today's show features: Glen Lucas, general manager of B.C. Fruit Growers' Association, on the damage to cherries, peaches, and apples from the recent heatwave; An AGI SureTrack spotlight interview with Alicia Cowieson; A chat... Read More

Normally a week or so behind the winter barley crop, Ontario farmers are nosing into the wheat harvest a little early as the two crops are ready at about the same time. From an aphid alert on soybeans, to sneaky root rots, and potash deficiency showing up in corn, Peter "Wheat Pete" Johnson has the... Read More

Unbelievably hot temperatures recently hit parts of B.C., the Pacific Northwest, and into California, injuring fruit and trees alike. Glen Lucas, general manager for the B.C. Fruit Growers Association based at Kelowna, B.C., recently joined Shaun Haney to talk about how orchards are affected by the recent heatwave. "The first thing that was of note... Read More

Nitrogen and phosphorus fertilization is an important step in seeding a wheat crop and getting it off to the right start. However, over time fertilizer placed at the same depth can cause soil acidification. Initially set up in 1967, with various rotations and fertility treatments, long-term research plots were the basis for interesting research results... Read More

It's been dry in parts of Western Canada heading into canola flowering, but has it been dry enough to hold off on spraying for sclerotinia? That's a question many growers and agronomists in drought-affected areas have been asking themselves over the last week or two. There are really two basic factors to consider in the... Read More