Today on RealAg Radio, host Shaun Haney opens the show by reading an email from a listener who is finding it difficult to enjoy harvest. Jessika is at the Canadian Farm Writers national meeting in Winnipeg, so Shaun renames the top ag news stories of the the day, "news without Guse"! The top stories feature... Read More
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The New Holland's P2082 double shoot disc drill takes seed and fertilizer placement seriously. This new drill is designed for accurate one-pass placement of seed and fertilizer for uniform emergence, better stands and higher yields, says New Holland. It's available in seeding widths of 30, 40, 50 and 60 feet with available 10-inch row spacing.... Read More
Steiger wants to hit the ground running, even on narrow tracks. RealAgriculture's Kelvin Heppner was in Boone, Iowa, recently for the Farm Progress Show. While he was there he got a chance to talk to Mitch Kaiser, Case IH Steiger marketing manager. He says there is quite a bit new this year, "Especially for the... Read More
We're several weeks into harvest, and six weeks into the crop year, which begs the question— how is rail movement out of your area? Many farmers are already reporting slow shipments and long wait times at elevators, and watching trains moving oil tankers and not grain cars has some farmers seeing red. RealAgriculture founder Shaun... Read More
Can dissolved urea increase your wheat yield? If it burns the crop will it still put more bushels in the bin? In this episode of RealAgriculture's Wheat School we catch up with our resident agronomist Peter Johnson as he inspects a field of winter wheat that received 15 gallons per acre of dissolved urea with... Read More
RealAg Radio host Shaun Haney explores the benefits of cold breakfast pizza, the need to enjoy harvest time, and reads a listener's email on what creates the west versus east sentiment among some Canadians. News with Guse (minus the Guse) features Shaun covering the highlights of the slow-moving NAFTA talks today featuring audio from Maxime... Read More
Give a boy a burdock plant, and he'll be irritated for a day. Teach a boy to kill said burdock plant, and he just may go on to be a provincial weed control specialist. At least, that's the path that Clark Brenzil, weed specialist for the Saskatchewan Ministry of Agriculture, took. In this episode of... Read More
The reality is that farms are getting bigger and fields farther apart. Time spent on the road is time not spent doing field work, so there's a lot of focus right now on tracks that handle travel at road speed to get between fields faster. RealAgriculture's Kelvin Heppner caught up with Martin Lunkenbein, Camso's business... Read More
RealAg Radio host, Shaun Haney, is back from a trip to New York! Get ready to hear about what he thinks about a "free-range" or "cage-free" pastry shop he passed while walking the city. News with Guse might be sticking around after all... News lead, Jessika Guse breaks down the top ag news stories of... Read More
Ontario's vegetable processing industry has certainly faced its share of challenges in the last few years, but Cathy Lennon, general manager with Ontario Processing Vegetable Growers, says that there are also some great news stories of companies investing and expanding in the province. Lennon, whose organization represents over 380 tomato, cucumber, carrot, squash (and more!)... Read More