With the acquisition of Dutch company Machinefabriek Steketee B.V. this year, Lemken has expanded its product portfolio, including the addition of row-crop cultivator EC-Weeder. The cultivator uses the IC-Light camera system to identify rows, and when paired with automatic steering, allows the machine to automatically adjust for accurate placement between rows. "We can go up... Read More
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Eight days later, the CN Rail strike is over. RealAg Radio host, Shaun Haney takes a little credit for the agreement reached between the two parties as he planned today's show all-around diving in deeper to how the CN strike is impacting producers across Canada. Tuesday's show still surrounds the strike, but more so on... Read More
In just a few days, Ontario's corn harvest ground to a halt. Not because of Mother Nature's wrath this time, but because of an abrupt end of the supply of propane that fuels dryers to dry the corn to a safe level. Barry Senft, CEO of Grain Farmers of Ontario, says that the rail strike... Read More
The CN Rail strike lasted eight days, causing a logistical nightmare across Canada and inducing a propane shortage for Quebec. While regular service is set to resume November 27th, without changes these types of shortages could happen again, says the Quebec farmers union (l’Union des producteurs agricoles, UPA). Marcel Groleau, president of UPA, says the... Read More
Claas's new 8000-7000 series combine is delivering more throughput, while also showing its true colours — no, really. "Finally, after many years of being yellow and black because of our affiliation with Caterpillar in the past, we finally got back to the [seed] green and white colours that are traditional CLAAS colours," says Patrick Arnold,... Read More
Host Shaun Haney starts off the show with a discussion on the rail strike, and seven days in, he says, we need the government to take a much more active role in getting this strike settled. What do you think? Send us your thoughts (contact info below). Then, on today's show you'll hear: Matt Chapple,... Read More
With an eye on those who want to create energy independent farms, New Holland introduced its methane-powered T6 model at Agritechnica. As Dominic Hesse, of New Holland, explains, the T6 is the size and type of tractor that would likely be used on a dairy that could support a methane digester and scrubber to close... Read More
Fresh off a big trip to New Zealand representing the Canadian Roundtable for Sustainable Beef, Anne Wasko, of Gateway Livestock Exchange, is back for a Beef Market Update. (Read more about Anne's experience at the Global Roundtable for Sustainable Beef here) Here in the northern hemisphere, it was another good week in the U.S., with... Read More
The Manitoba based SoilReader made quite the impression at Germany's Agritechnica. While Shaun Haney covered the many buildings of the bi-annual show, more than a few people encouraged Shaun to check out the new tech, calling it "revolutionary." Erik Eising patented the technology in 2016, and says the SoilReader is poised to become a real... Read More
RealAg Radio regular host Shaun Haney is back to end off the week. On today's show you'll hear from: The top agriculture news of the day with RealAgriculture's news lead, Jessika Guse; Minister of Agriculture Marie-Claude Bibeau is back in office and joins Shaun to talk about future plans; Shaun gives his take on what... Read More