It's not traditionally a time of year where we see big boosts to several crop price complexes, but what about 2020 has been normal? In this grain market Q&A LIVE!, Brian Voth, of IntelliFarm, sits down with sports-starved host Shaun Haney to talk corn, canola, soybeans, ethanol, baseball, spring wheat and more! Don’t miss RealAg... Read More
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Grow great wheat! It's a catchy slogan, sure, but HOW do you grow great wheat? In this episode of the Wheat School, Peter "Wheat Pete" Johnson is fired up about the synergistic relationship between wheat inputs. "As we add all these fungicides, we add more nitrogen, we add these plant growth regulators, how does that... Read More
Living with extended family can be hard enough; adding work, money, and legacy to the mix makes it nearly impossible. But it doesn't have to be this way, and Jolene Brown, farmer, speaker, and author, joins this RealAg LIVE! to talk about the trials and tribulations of farming with family. Brown is entertaining, real, and... Read More
Wheat yield results are starting to trickle in from across Ontario, and the verdict is... pretty good! In this mid-July edition of Wheat Pete's Word, host Pete Johnson covers off what seems to have contributed to yield and what didn't seem to hold the wheat crop back. Plus, there are some insect pressures to watch... Read More
Throughout the pandemic there's been some struggle with meat supply chains and consumers getting the products they want. A new app developed by Lyndon Lisitza, Meatocracy, may just be the timely solution to widening the supply chain bottleneck. "The purpose of the app is very simply to bridge the gap between livestock producers and consumers... Read More
James Hammerton, who farms with his family at Sweaburg, Ont., is giving double crop soybeans a solid go, with the aid of a stripper header to harvest the preceding wheat. On this episode of the Sharp Edge, RealAgriculture's Bernard Tobin is joined by Greg Stewart, agronomy lead with Maizex Seeds. Stewart interviews Hammerton about his... Read More
Got the mid-week blahs? Tune in for this episode of RealAg Radio, where you'll hear: Host Shaun Haney tackle how the Conservative Party of Canada leadership contenders plan to approach agriculture; Dr. Frank Mitloehner of University of California-Davis wants everyone — Burger King included — to rethink methane; and Lyndon Lisitza, with the Meatocracy app,... Read More
With nearly all farm shows and in-person events cancelled or moved online, a community event is rather rare this time of year. And that's proving rather challenging for many rural communities who are so used to using the warm summer field days as a way to learn, connect, and maybe even commiserate in the beverage... Read More
It started cool, turned hot and dry, and now the rain has started to fall — just in time for corn pollination. Ontario's 2020 growing season is a far cry from perfect but it's certainly much better than last year at this point. Doug Alderman, vice president of sales and marketing for PRIDE Seeds, says... Read More
Saskatchewan has received a lot of moisture in most parts of the province this year, and with that comes a concern for diseases. Root rots have definitely shown up in peas and lentils and anthracnose in lentils is a concern this year, too. "One thing with lentils, too, when you get a lot of that... Read More