To say it's been a tough few weeks of harvest for Ontario growers would been an understatement, and Peter "Wheat Pete" Johnson has a thrown out a challenge to all — call your neighbour, check in, let them talk or vent their frustration. We're a community, after all. On that note, the RealAgriculture has questions... Read More
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Air seeders are getting bigger at the same time that farmers are applying more total product per acre. Is the distribution system that worked well on a 36-foot air seeder up to the task of evenly distributing 300-plus pounds of seed and fertilizer across an 86 foot air drill? Not likely. Dale Leftwich, RealAgriculture's Saskatchewan... Read More
More than $150,000 in funding was awarded to 4-H Canada's new two-year program aimed at helping rural youth focus on healthy living — both emotionally and physically. Beginning in spring of next year, the program will roll out tools and resources to support kids facing mental health challenges. As communication is key, people will also... Read More
Ontario Federation of Agriculture president Keith Currie is hoping 2019 will be a prosperous year for farmers in the province. Earlier this week, the Colingwood, Ont., farmer was acclaimed to his third term as leader of the farm lobby organization. A big part of Currie’s success over past year has been his leadership in drafting... Read More
For Tuesday's RealAg Radio show, host, Shaun Haney, is live from Grain World at the 48th annual Canadian Western Agribition. Sponsored by Farm Credit Canada (FCC), Shaun speaks with various guests including Sean Stanford who opens up about his mental health journey and what it was like speaking to federal government standing committee on agriculture.... Read More
What if you could take a scan of your grain bin and know the condition of each bushel inside that bin? And what if you could do this even if the bin held 500,000 or even a million bushels? Grain Viz has taken technology originally designed for breast cancer research and brought it to the... Read More
Ontario's agriculture minister is asking the province's corn growers who have high vomitoxin levels in their crop to focus efforts on harvesting their good corn first. Late last week, Minister Ernie Hardeman called together industry stakeholders to look for solutions and creative ideas to help manage escalating mycotoxin levels in the crop that has turned... Read More
On today's RealAg Radio show, host Shaun Haney talks to our in-house agronomist Peter 'Wheat Pete' Johnson. The pair go over the ups and downs of the Ontario harvest and how some farmers are still trying to get the crop off. News with Guse is back, and Jessika and Shaun have all the top ag... Read More
This year has brought many political events to remember including trade deals, a new party on the right, and a bizarre foreign trip to India for Prime Minister Trudeau. As we get closer to 2019, Ottawa has flipped into election mode according to Kelsey Johnson of iPolitics. Johnson also believes the issue of competitiveness will... Read More
Cheers to the weekend! We at RealAgriculture can't thank you enough for spending your afternoon listening to RealAg Radio on SiriusXM Rural Radio147. It's a great show today with host, Shaun Haney, opening up the show with Kelsey Johnson from iPolitics. The pair discuss what's the latest from Ottawa pertaining to agriculture and with the... Read More