It's been a difficult, if not devastating spring season for many livestock producers. Host Shaun Haney starts off the show with a shout-out to everyone dealing with adverse winter conditions. Then: Top Ag News How bad is the situation for U.S. dairy producers? Anna Lisa Laca, online and business editor for Farm Journal's Milk and... Read More
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With increasing cases of herbicide resistance, machines designed to destroy weed seeds at harvest could be a valuable tool. But like any technology that is not yet widely adopted, there are also some lessons to be learned and challenges to overcome, as researchers with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada confirmed last year. 2017 marked the first... Read More
It's mid-April and a huge part of Western Canada, Ontario, and the northern U.S. is digging out after a late winter blast of snow, freezing rain, and ice. As May looms large in the next 14 days, we have to ask — when should we start to panic about a late planting season? May 1st... Read More
The battle over pipelines continued over the weekend. Host Shaun Haney starts the show off discussing how the controversy relates to agriculture. Would we see the same outrage if there was a push for another rail line? Then: Fungal screens and vigour tests with 20/20 Seed Labs; Agronomy Panel - Field editor Lyndsey Smith, resident... Read More
Are you willing to change your mind when you discuss agriculture and food issues with people who don't agree with your point of view? On some level, most people in agriculture engage in conversations with family, friends, and colleagues on a range of issues – everything from conventional versus organic agriculture, to the right to... Read More
Excitement is bubbling in the U.S. agriculture industry with President Donald Trump toying with negotiating a place for the country in the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans Pacific Partnership (CPTPP). And that's where host Shaun Haney starts the show. Is it now essentially a bilateral trade deal? Then: Top Ag News with Kelvin Heppner.... Read More
News of Canada, Mexico, and the United States possibly reaching an agreement-in-principle in North American Free Trade Agreement negotiations in the next few weeks is creating optimism in Mexico. "The whole issue has gotten lots of attention lately," says José Díaz-Briseño, the U.S.-Mexico correspondent for the Mexico City-based Reforma newspaper, in the following interview. Earlier... Read More
As planting decisions are finalized, the risk of iron deficiency chlorosis (IDC) is one of the factors soybean growers in Western Canada and the Northern Plains are keeping in mind after unprecedented yellowing due to IDC in many areas last year. A wet 2016 growing season followed by a dry start to 2017, left elevated... Read More
Look for more Canadian milk to be passing though Kiwi-made milking parlours in the years ahead. That's according to New Zealand-based Waikato Milking Systems' CEO Dean Bell, who brought his company to Stratford, ON, this month to exhibit for the first time at the Canadian Dairy XPO. The New Zealand dairy industry currently supplies one-third... Read More
Shaun Haney is back from his (work) trip to Las Vegas, and he starts off the show talking pipelines, carbon taxes and the Prime Minister's big moment. Then: Top Ag News Buy or Sell - Kelvin Heppner is back on the hot seat, this week challenged with topics like the Trans Mountain pipeline, Bill C-49,... Read More