RealAg Radio host Shaun Haney is (mostly) on holiday this week, so it's Lyndsey Smith sitting in as occasional host. On today's show: The top ag news with Jessika Guse, including the introduction of private member's bill regarding farm trespassing and changes to the carbon tax; Eric Broadbent with Kinze, on the company's high-speed planter;... Read More
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Tar spot, a new corn leaf disease, has moved through the U.S. Midwest, into Michigan and Wisconsin, and now sits at the doorstep of Ontario's corn growing region. Characterized by tar-like speckling on the upper surface of corn leaves, the fungal pathogen has been delivering yield hits ranging from 20 to 60 bushels per acre... Read More
Spring is coming, and it always seems to creep up a little quicker than anticipated. After the year that was 2019, many producers are wondering how they are going to best deal with their soils moving into the season. Many across the Prairies that traditionally put down fall fertilizer or do tillage operations in the... Read More
The Maestro lineup has been around for a while, with two main features: weight transfer, and electrical metering drive run strictly off of the tractor. "We thought that an additional generator on the back of the planter is exposed to dust, is exposed to rain, is exposed to any natural influence, and that can, in... Read More
Podcasts have been around a very long time, but their mainstream adoption — and open-arm welcome from farmers and ranchers — is a recent phenomenon. Will Evans, a farmer from the UK, hosts the Rock and Roll Farming podcasts from his farm in Wales, and as he approaches his third year of doing so, he... Read More
On today's Family Day/Louis Riel Day-holiday episode of the show: Edible weeds, poisonous weeds, and the ever-evolving challenge of effective extension, with Mike Cowbrough, weed specialist for field crops with the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs, in this episode of Agronomy Geeks. Benefits to exercising outside even through the cold, plus tips... Read More
For a company that proclaims its loyalty to Canadian ranchers on the back and sides of its transport trucks, navigating a foray into the plant-based market is going to be somewhat tricky. McDonald's marketing director Jean-Guillaume Bertola fully understands that the company has to strike a balance between adapting menus based on changing consumer preferences,... Read More
Data collected between 2008 and 2015 by Saskatchewan Crop Insurance Corp suggests many farmers in the province are using tight rotations, or no rotation at all (coyly referred to as a "canola-snow" rotation). "The tight rotations that we are talking about — canola, wheat, canola, wheat — are in the northeast of the province and... Read More
Host Shaun Haney may be tuckered out from his time on the road, but that's not stopping him from scheduling another jam-packed episode of RealAg Radio. In today's show, hear: Top ag news stories of the day (week) with RealAgriculture news lead, Jessika Guse; An exciting initiative — the RealAgristudies partnership, with Justin Funk, AgriStudies;... Read More
Väderstad's new planter offering enables operators to fill one large 3,000 L seed hopper, rather than each row unit, increasing both productivity and capacity. "It's our new system for pressurized seed metres," says Väderstad's Lars Thylen, "where we have a central fill function...for all seeds, including small seeds like canola, sugar beets, but also normal... Read More