For this edition of RealAg Radio, host Shaun Haney is covering grass vs. grain-finished beef, top tips for grain marketing in tough times, and planning for the crop's sulphur needs. On today's show, you'll hear from: Brian Voth with IntelliFarm, on your marketing plan during falling markets; Jake Bueckert with the Alberta Cattle Feeders' Association's... Read More
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During planting season, Kearney Planters service manager Shaun Dilliott gets plenty of calls from growers asking for seed meter management advice. Most of those calls come from soybean growers looking for tips on two types of meters — a John Deere radial meter or a Kinze brush meter. On this episode of RealAgriculture's Soybean School,... Read More
On this midweek edition of RealAg Radio, we've got a great lineup of guests and commentary coming your way! You'll hear: President and CEO of A&W Canada, Susan Senecal, on the company's recent decision to move to 100% grass-fed and finished Canadian beef, and how they plan to actually accomplish this; Professional home economist Marilyn... Read More
Wheat Pete's Word host Peter Johnson is a lot of things — dynamic and opinionated for starters — but he's also rather humble. This episode marks 250 episodes of this podcast and he's likely not going to make a big deal of it, but the rest of the RealAgriculture team is! In this 250th episode,... Read More
Today's Tuesday show is coming to you live from the RealAg Radio studio at Lethbridge, Alta., You'll hear: The top ag news stories of the day; RealAgriculture's Kelvin Heppner with a discussion on a recent article he wrote about some of the concerns Canadian equipment manufacturers have regarding intellectual property in the USMCA deal; Farm... Read More
When Bloomfield, Ont. farmer Tyler Lester started planting cover crops, the goal was to help keep livestock out of pea crops to address food safety concerns raised by vegetable crop customers. With a healthy deer and wild turkey population that too often ventured into the crops, Lester and his family hatched a strategy to plant... Read More
If ever there was an example of how to alienate an entire portion of your customer base, A&W's 2013 "Better Beef" campaign was it. Not only did the marketing ploy raise the ire of Canadian ranchers, but the claim of "no added hormones or steroids" also got the back up of just about every conventional... Read More
To Kimberly Cornish, regenerating the land is not only our responsibility, it's our honour. Cornish is the director of the Food Water Wellness Foundation, an Alberta-based not-for-profit that "has been set up to really advance regenerative agricultural practices, or agricultural practices that are environmentally regenerative." In a presentation to attendees of the Alberta Beef Industry... Read More
A new hitch with telescoping draft links makes the John Deere 4M heavy-duty compact utility tractor one of the most versatile machines in its class, the company says. Deere rolled out the new tractor, available in 52 and 66 horsepower models, at the National Farm Machinery Show (NFMS) at Louisville, Kentucky. John Deere product marketing... Read More
It's been an ugly day in the markets across the board; whether you are dealing with equities, ag commodities, or energy commodities, analysts are already calling today the new 'Black Monday.' Of course RealAg host Shaun Haney discusses the rising concern over the coronavirus and its impact on the markets, as well as the current... Read More