In today's show, host Shaun Haney takes on the news, then: Stuart Cullum, president of Olds College, tells us about this week's AgSmart event in Olds, AB; and Frank Mitloehner, University of California, Davis, joins to talk about last week's UN report on climate change, expressing his disappointment in media coverage. Have feedback on the... Read More
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Farm at Hand announced Tuesday that it has joined "the TELUS family," in an effort to make the farm platform more user-friendly and provide more options. The farm management platform, which was launched in 2012, makes it easier for growers to track farm inventory and manage field records — whether it be equipment, crop inventory,... Read More
Could 2019 be another 'gibb' year for corn growers? That's a question RealAgriculture agronomist Peter Johnson encounters almost daily. When asked, he says there's "not a chance" of the widespread gibberella outbreak Ontario growers experienced in 2018. However, he notes that "in isolated areas, we do have a high risk of gibberella ear rot infection... Read More
Chances are you've never decanted window cleaner and blue raspberry gatorade side-by-side, but if you did, you'd likely be shocked at the similarity. In fact, many chemicals bear striking resemblances to palatable substances, particularly to a child's eye. And that was one of the messages brought to Saskatchewan by the Canadian Agricultural Safety Association (CASA)... Read More
Schulte has integrated the Valmar 6056 with its SoilStar DHX-600 disc harrow, with the combination on display at this summer's Ag in Motion in Saskatchewan. "What we've done with this disc harrow – we've put a Valmar granular applicator onto this unit, which allows us to spread Avadex, the seed application, and/or fertilizer application, on... Read More
It's Agronomic Monday, and today on the show: Marlin Bohling, markets editor for RFD-TV and Rural Radio SiriusXM channel 147, discusses the downward start to the week, Friday night's Tyson Foods plant fire in Kansas, and the latest World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates; and, Resident agronomist Peter Johnson talks frost, hail, drought, drowned beans,... Read More
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is out with its monthly World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE). It appears as though corn is back as king, with the department forecasting corn production at 13.9 billion bushels — that's up 26 million from last month's projection. The first yield forecast of the season, which... Read More
When it comes to corn production, is 2019 a year to forget or a year to remember? For RealAgriculture's Peter Johnson, it's a year to learn. On this episode of RealAgriculture Corn School we catch up with Johnson at Diagnostic Days at Ridgetown College, University of Guelph, where our resident agronomist is busy digging up... Read More
As many producers are aware, there are a plethora of things going on in the global economic sphere... and growing concerns are rising. But how do we understand what everything means? How do we unpack it all? Farm Credit Canada's chief economist J.P. Gervais joined RealAg Radio host Shaun Haney to give a little more... Read More
A distinguished professor at Indiana's Purdue University has modeled the potential implications of finding African swine fever (ASF) in the U.S., finding a range of economic losses, ranging from what he calls "bad to really, really bad." In the conversation with Shaun Haney from RealAg Radio included below, Jayson Lusk, head of the Agricultural Economics... Read More