Each fall the Western Forum on Pest Management meets to review the previous growing season. Scientists, researchers, and agronomists get together to compare notes on what happened during the previous growing season. This helps everyone get a better understanding of the issues so that they can help each other help farmers. Dale Leftwich, field editor... Read More
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For eight years Kay Kuenker was the only woman on the executive team at Dow AgroSciences. That experience has taught her much about how women and men can work together in the agribusiness executive suite. Today, Kuenker works as consultant with her own company, K2Kinetics. At the recent Advancing Women in Agriculture Conference in Niagara... Read More
To open the show it was a belated two year birthday for RealAg Radio on Rural Radio 147. Its been a great two years and we look forward to many more. Jessika and Shaun discuss the breaking news in which Canada became the fifth country to ratify the CPTPP, making them part of what Shaun... Read More
Wednesday's show saw something for everyone in agriculture. Jessika Guse has the top ag news stories of the day including reaction from farm groups on the carbon tax plan, the Bank of Canada raises the key rate by 25 basis points to 1.75% and what would you buy if you won the Powerball of $1.5... Read More
When you don't have something nice to say you're supposed to say nothing at all, but if you've ever met Peter 'Wheat Pete' Johnson you already know that's not his style. Besides, the Ontario corn crop is such a mess there's no way to NOT talk about it. This week's Wheat Pete's Word isn't all... Read More
Automated feed pushers save time and reduce workload. These robots can free dairy producers from the constant grind of pushing feed back within reach of their animals. It's a win/win, as having feed within reach of the animals is just part of the recipe for higher feed intake and great milk production, too, notes Gravin... Read More
It was a big day on the show today as Jessika Guse celebrates her first three months at RealAgriculture. Prime Minister Trudeau lays out the details of his federal carbon tax plan, Bayer suffers setback in its California court case and 4-H designates some award winners. Saskatchewan farmer Kristjan Herbert joins the show to chat... Read More
Welcome back to the work week and to host Shaun Haney, as he returns to the mic after a fun family vacation in the UK. Today's a special episode of RealAg Radio as Norm Flore Manager of Agronomic Services with Nutrien Ag Solutions joins Shaun as a co-host. For today's show, the pair discuss what... Read More
In agriculture, women are under represented in leadership roles. How do we change that? For Cargill, one of the world's largest agribusinesses, change comes in the form of a commitment to achieve gender parity in management by 2030. The goal is to have women occupy 50 per cent of leadership roles in the organization at... Read More