The weather feels more like mid-April than mid-May, and many farmers in Ontario are worried about corn and soybean seed in the ground and wheat heads above ground. There are reasons to be concerned, as nighttime temperatures over the last week have dipped very low and sometimes for the entire night. In this week's Wheat... Read More
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Welcome to the Tuesday edition of RealAg Radio! We hope you are having a great day, wherever you are at. On today's show, you'll hear: The top ag news stories of the day with host Shaun Haney; Matthew Pot of Grain Perspectives, on a breakdown of the latest World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE)... Read More
In unpacking the United States Department of Agriculture’s perspective on the upcoming marketing year for U.S. stocks, it looks like nothing more than a goal post at the point in the marketing year with demand just as ambiguous. The USDA's latest WASDE report pegs new crop corn ending stocks at 3.318 billion which was below... Read More
With extreme cold temperatures continuing across Ontario, when should growers resume planting soybeans? Planting came to a halt late last week as Ontario finds itself in the grip of extended cold daytime and nighttime temperatures. Snow covered parts of the province during the weekend and into Monday. And there's more to come — some areas... Read More
There was a time when many people thought of field insects like weeds — all bad. Weeds steal yield, so we try to eliminate all or mostly all of those weeds. Now through many years of research, the way we look at insects in a crop has begun to shift away from this all-bad, all-must-go... Read More
It's time for another Agronomy Monday episode! On today's show, you'll hear: Horst Bohner, soybean specialist for Ontario, on planting soybeans in the east; Bryce Rampton of Syngenta, on planting soybeans with a western Canadian perspective; Bethany Wyatt, senior technical service specialist with BASF, on why you need to be thinking about rolling your pulse... Read More
We've made it through another rough week, and as Anne Wasko of the Gateway Livestock Exchange says in this Beef Market Update, "thank goodness." We know it's been a tough go the past few weeks. Every day seems to be worse and worse, but as more packing plants begin to re-open, the worst seems to... Read More
This Friday marks nine weeks of COVID-19 physical distancing and economic shutdown. Where are we at? On today's RealAg Radio, host Shaun Haney covers the beef markets, packer cut-out numbers, and more with Anne Wasko. Jamie Stringham of Belchim Canada joins the show to talk Manipulator use for 2020, then Kelvin Heppner and Lyndsey Smith... Read More
Canada's equine industry is asking the federal government to help protect the health and welfare of thousands of "working horses" as their owners struggle to cope with the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. Earlier this week the federal government pledged $252 million in various funding and credit programs aimed at agriculture. The announcement was met... Read More
StatsCan has released its delayed 2020 acreage prediction for field crops in Canada. The report was to be released two weeks ago and has a limited survey response compared to more normal circumstances, due to COVID-19. StatsCan stated, "At this time, intended seeded area estimates cannot reflect the full impact on the crop sector as... Read More