Any time you're growing canola, and any field you're growing it in, clubroot should be on your mind. For Leighton Blashko, senior technical specialist at BASF Canada, the two most important things when it comes to this yield-robbing disease are sanitation and avoidance. In this Canola School episode, Blashko and field editor Kara Oosterhuis talk…Read More
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...And just like that, it's Monday again! On RealAg Radio, that means one thing: it's time to talk all things agronomy! On this Agronomic Monday episode, you'll hear: The top ag news stories of the day with host Shaun Haney; Eric Persson of Syngenta Canada on all things soybean seed treatments; Alana Serhan of PRIDE... Read More
We're likely biased, but entomology might be the most fascinating aspect of agronomy. To celebrate our tiny friends in the field — beneficial insects — this episode of The Agronomists features not two but three guests: Meghan Vankosky and Tyler Wist, both of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, and John Gavloski with Manitoba Agriculture and Resource... Read More
Today's RealAg LIVE! episode is exciting, as we bring to you a budget special. It's our first federal budget in two years, so co-hosts Shaun Haney and Kelvin Heppner figured we were overdue for a special. The budget is 739 pages long, and as Haney notes, it looked like a Ken Follet novel as it... Read More
Ashley Knapton is the dairy strategic account manager with Corteva. Based in Eastern Ontario, Knapton spends her days working that bridge between the dairy farmer, the cow nutritionist, and what happens in the field. But this isn't really where she thought she'd end up. Knapton — also known as Kaptin Knapton on social media— had... Read More
Cody Easterday of Mesa, Washington, recently pleaded guilty in federal court to defrauding a Tyson Foods, Inc. company out of approximately US$244 million. Easterday charged the company for the costs of buying and feeding as many as 200,000 cattle that didn't exist — a ghost-herd. Greg Henderson, editor at Drovers, says that there are other... Read More
We try to keep each other on our toes here at RealAgriculture. So, we're switching things up a bit for today's RealAg LIVE! Joining our appointed host Kara Oosterhuis today, we've got some of the members of our content team: Bernard Tobin, Lara de Moissac, Lyndsey Smith, and Shaun Haney. What are we talking about... Read More
For this Friday edition of RealAg Radio, we've got a Beef Market Update with Anne Wasko of Gateway Livestock Exchange! Plus, we've got an issues panel featuring host Shaun Haney, field editors Lyndsey Smith and Kelvin Heppner, and Alberta farmer Jeff Nielsen. They'll be talking about the impending federal budget, the Conservative Party's carbon plan,... Read More
A lot is happening in the beef business right now, but we're going to start off this week's edition of the Beef Market Update with what is top of mind for many producers: revenue. Anne Wasko of the Gateway Livestock Exchange says the U.S. cash trade has been steady this week, but it follows on... Read More
AGCO has introduced its latest harvesting solution, the AutoDock header docking system, for Fendt IDEAL combines. AutoDock is the industry's first automatic system for connecting and disconnecting combine headers, without having to get out of the combine, says the company. It eliminates the job of manually lifting and attaching or detaching drivelines, which, as anyone... Read More