For those people who like two-track tractors but always thought the ride could be a little better, good news: John Deere agrees with you and is making the cab suspension more operator friendly on its new two-track tractors. RealAgriculture had a chance to talk to Tiffany Turner, product marketing manager, large tractors, for John Deer,... Read More
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RealAg Radio host Shaun Haney is working through a huge week on the show, as Thursday's show features Official Leader of the Opposition, Andrew Scheer, talking NAFTA, dairy, rural crime, and broadband. On News with Guse, news lead Jessika Guse and occasional host Lyndsey Smith talk new NAFTA (USM?), reports of fraudulent hog movement in... Read More
What do you do when two busloads of students come to your farm? Well, of course you welcome them, show them around, and feed them lunch. On a rainy day during harvest, students from Saskatchewan Polytechnic came out to the farm of Doyle and Val Wiebe near Langham. All of the farm equipment was lined... Read More
Marcel Kringe has taken his combine remote drop pan and separator east to show Ontario farmers how the innovation can reduce harvest losses. Manitoba-based Kringe, who hatched the idea with a co-worker while working as a custom combine driver, brought the Bushel Plus combine calibration system to Canada's Outdoor Farm Show (COFS) earlier this month.... Read More
If your harvest (or seeding or spraying) has ever been shut down because of a piece of equipment throwing an error code, you probably need to know about the building concern over right-to-repair rules and regulations. In case you haven't heard, there's a growing rumble out of the U.S. pitting farmers against equipment manufacturers in... Read More
The new BBI Sniper spinner spreader from Salford gives growers the ability to spread fertilizer accurately up to 120 feet at variable rates, the company says. Salford marketing manager Anson Boak says the BBI Sniper is ideal for large-scale dry fertilizer application. In this video, recorded at Canada's Outdoor Farm Show (COFS), Boak explains how... Read More
If you own your own equipment, the equipment that sits on your own property, you should be able to repair said equipment yourself, right? Well maybe not. RealAgriculture's Ontario field editor Lyndsey Smith joins host Shaun Haney to discuss possible changes that could be coming to your right to repair. But first, Shaun is joined... Read More
This week's episode of Wheat Pete's Word runs nearly coast to coast, with questions from out west, down south, out east, and everywhere in between. From the on-fire soybean yields in Ontario, to the evergreen crop in Western Canada, to fungicide timing on forage crops, you won't want to miss Peter Johnson's answers to this... Read More
Capital assets don't buy groceries. If this statement makes you scratch your head a little, you're likely the older generation on the farm. If you read it and think, "Don't I know it" you might be the in-coming generation, and very likely frustrated by the lack of clarity on how the farm's equity and income... Read More
Patience is in short supply for Western Canada's farmers slogging through a tough harvest, but those waiting for a change in weather are just going to have to wait longer, according to Drew Lerner, of World Weather Inc. "The atmosphere is very unsettled right now," Lerner says. "There is a lot of cold air coming... Read More