The lack of rainfall in some of the major pasture growing areas in Western Canada is extremely taxing on cow-calf producers. According to Chad MacPherson, general manager of the Saskatchewan Stock Growers Association, Saskatchewan is going into its third year of a major drought, and producers are running out of options. While in some years... Read More
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Happy Friday! Today on the show you'll hear: Top ag news with RealAgriculture's Jessika Guse. We want to hear from you: should Prime Minister Justin Trudeau reach out to Chinese President Xi Jinping for a meeting at the upcoming G-20 in Japan? Perceptions of agriculture could shape election issues this fall - RealAgriculture's Bernard Tobin... Read More
The 2019 Ontario wheat crop can best be described as a dog's breakfast...and that's perhaps being kind. What's left in the fields varies from not bad, to not too bad but with dead patches, to relatively uniformly poor and stagey. Depending on the field, the challenges are different. Uniform fields are easy to manage when... Read More
It's a stressful time for producers across the Canada. Please, do what you need to do to support your mental health during this challenging time. Today, on the show: Top ag news - RealAgriculture's Jessika Guse guides us through trade, tariffs, rail, and more. Product spotlight - RealAgriculture's Lyndsey Smith speaks to Trent Nowosad of... Read More
FMC Canada is setting down new roots in Ontario and building its presence across the Canadian crop protection landscape. Two years after closing a deal to acquire a portion of DuPont's crop protection business when that company merged with Dow AgroSciences to form Corteva, FMC has opened new corporate headquarters in Mississauga, Ont. In this... Read More
It's a special show today, with updates from agriculturalists across the country. In this episode, host Shaun Haney speaks to: Billy Beaudry of Quebec; Peter Gredig of Ontario; Cassandra Tkachuk in Manitoba; Troy LaForge of Saskatchewan; Jesse Meyer in Alberta; and John Kowalchuk of Alberta. Miss an episode of RealAg Radio? Click here to find... Read More
When it rains, it pours — both figuratively and literally, these days. Already stressed and stretched farmers in Ontario are now contending with the beginning of haying and fungicide spraying creeping into the chore list, all while planting is STILL not even started in some areas. While there's very little positive news in Ontario, host... Read More
What do Canadians think of our agriculture and agri-food industry as the calendar closes in on a federal election later this year? A new poll published this week by Grassroots Public Affairs offers insight into Canadian public opinion on a range of agricultural issues and policies. Overall, Grassroots principal and senior consultant Peter Seemann says... Read More
Clubroot. Many producers have the viewpoint of "We don't have it in our area, so we don't need to sanitize." This isn't an alert that clubroot has spread — it's an acknowledgment that it could come to your area, even if you are in a non-traditional clubroot zone, which is why growers have to be... Read More
Today's episode comes from sunny Guelph, Ont., where some growers are finally able to hit the fields. On today's show, with host Shaun Haney, you'll hear: The top ag news with RealAgriculture's Jessika Guse; Extremely dry conditions in parts of Saskatchewan are impacting pulse fields. Sherrilyn Phelps, agronomy and seed program manager with Saskatchewan Pulse... Read More