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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

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