Prostate Cancer. Despite its wide-reaching impact, it's often both misunderstood and misrepresented. According to Prostate Cancer Canada (PCC), in 2019 alone, over 20,000 cases of prostate cancer will be diagnosed in Canada. Robin Speer, spokesperson for PCC adds that 4,000 of those men will lose their lives to the disease. In case you don't feel... Read More
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Ontario is dotted with fields of "wimpy wheat." That's what RealAgriculture agronomist, Peter Johnson is calling late-emerging, thin, spindly winter wheat that lacks vigour and did not tiller. In this episode of RealAgriculture Wheat School, Johnson explains these plants are simply suffering from cold injury after a rugged Ontario fall and an equally tumultuous spring... Read More
Happy Friday! For today's RealAg Radio show, host Shaun Haney has the following guests: RealAgriculture's news lead, Jessika Guse with the top ag news stories of the day; Robin Speer with Prostate Cancer Canada is in to explain the #PlaidForDad campaign; J.P. Gervais, chief economist with Farm Credit Canada discusses interest rates; and, RealAgriculture's Lyndsey... Read More
Many fields in Western Canada are starting to see the emergence of canola cotyledons, making it prime time to start scouting, and assessing stand establishment. In this Canola School, Autumn Barnes, agronomy specialist with the Canola Council of Canada, says her favourite trick for assessing stand establishment is to use her bright yellow hula hoop.... Read More
If you grow winter wheat in Ontario, chances are wet weather chased you out of the field this spring before you applied nitrogen. That's what happened to RealAgriculture agronomist Peter Johnson. In this episode of the Wheat School, our resident agronomist compares wheat that received early spring nitrogen to another part of the field where... Read More
On today's edition of RealAg Radio, host Shaun Haney delves into: The top ag news stories of the day, with RealAgriculture's Jessika Guse; Farmer Rapid Fire - Ontario and Saskatchewan farmers Mark Brock and D.C. Jensen join the show to provide progress reports on planting; and, Wheat Pete's Word - Is it time to look... Read More
The cereal leaf beetle is a relatively new pest of cereals in Alberta, first spotted in 2005. And, if you are Dr. Haley Catton, research scientist in cereal crop entomology with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, you'll describe these creatures as a "beautiful, small, jewel-like beetle." Those doing the scouting might not be so enamoured by... Read More
It's a weather market this week, according to Wendy White, manager of grain marketing for Viterra's central region, and there has been a lot of volatility. But, that can be a good thing, if you know how to market your grain. "You've been living under a rock if you haven't heard corn planting (in the... Read More
On Wednesday's RealAg Radio show, host Shaun Haney has the following guests: Jessika Guse with the top ag news stories of the day; Fawn Jackson, senior manager of government and international relations with the Canadian Cattlemen's Association; and, Wendy White, manager of grain marketing for Viterra's central region. Do you love corn? Maybe soybeans or... Read More
It'd be fantastic if this Wheat Pete's Word update included a milestone planting progress update, but 2019 is proving to be a slow one for much of Ontario. And while Western Canada is having much more luck getting the crop in, areas are still dry to very dry. Questions submitted for this week's show involve... Read More