Every now and then, Canadians will take a stand against the U.S. by choosing Canadian items over American ones at the grocery store. Canadians are generally loyal to Canadian food products, unless they cost more — and most often, they do. In a nutshell, here is what happened following the G7 Summit: Trudeau plays nice... Read More
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It's day two of Canada's Farm Progress Show at Regina, Saskatchewan, and the dynamic duo of Shaun Haney and Kelvin Heppner are together again, in person, to host today's show. Broadcasting from the FBN booth at the show, Haney and Heppner host Tom Staples, with FBN (a new-to-Canada e-commerce and tech network), Tom Wolf, to... Read More
Ontario corn growers will have plenty of variables to consider as they plan fungicide applications in the weeks ahead. An extended five-week planting season has produced huge variability in the crop, with current maturity ranging from the two- to eight-leaf stage depending on where you farm in the province. In this episode of RealAgriculture's Corn... Read More
On this Wednesday episode of RealAg Radio, Shaun Haney gets real about ag input bundling programs. We don't love them, but we all use them — why? Haney explores that and introduces this week's poll around exactly that question in the open. (Want to vote in the poll? Find it here.) Also on today's show:... Read More
This week's episode of Wheat Pete's Word is full of alliterations and maybe, just maybe, a little serving of humble pie. We start this week talking wild weather, wheat woes and wonder, then move on to skimpy seeds and yellow ycorn (Editor's note: Sorry, I tried). Host Peter Johnson tackles what to do or not... Read More
AGCO held the North American launch for its new IDEAL axial combine series in Regina, SK, on Tuesday, coinciding with the start of Canada's Farm Progress Show. As we've covered previously on RealAgriculture (at Agritechnica in Germany here and the prior launch in Italy here), the IDEAL combine represents AGCO's largest ever product development project,... Read More
It's really easy to ignore data or information that we don't want to hear. In this case, we cannot afford to ignore the impact that opioids are having in our rural communities across Canada. There is new data out today for the Government of Canada revealing that there was almost 4,000 opioid-related deaths in 2017.... Read More
Tuesday's edition of RealAg Radio, with host Shaun Haney: Top ag news, with Lyndsey Smith Crystal MacKay, Canadian Centre for Food Integrity, on actress Natalie Portman's comments about animal agriculture and the influence of celebrity Sylvain Charlebois, Dalhousie University, on why he doesn't think Canadians boycotting American products would be productive Ted Siefried, Zaner Hedge,... Read More
It was a hairy day in the markets on Tuesday, with the trade battle between China and the United States playing a major factor. On Monday night, President Donald Trump informed the U.S. Trade Representative to look at tariffs on an additional $200 billion in imports from China. This is double his original threat of... Read More
Actress Natalie Portman was a guest last week on the "Late Show with Stephen Colbert," talking about a new film that she narrates called "Eating Animals." As you may expect by the title of the movie, it is a narrow view of today's food production. Portman's comments (see below) on Colbert's show definitely initiated a... Read More