For a growing season that started so dry for so many, some farmers are now hoping for a string of two or three days of dry weather to get hay done or start harvest on spring-planted crops. It's also been a trying week for Ontario's Compaction Day planning crew who ended up cancelling the event... Read More
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Reaction continues to pour in from Mondays trade announcement between the U.S. and Mexico. Host, Shaun Haney, surveys what's to come this week as Canada tries to secure a trilateral agreement. News lead, Jessika Guse, also discusses the reaction from the National Corn Growers Association to the USDA aid package. Other topics include: Canada has... Read More
It's a big day for trade — at least for the U.S. and Mexico as U.S. President Donald Trump announced he will be "eliminating" NAFTA and going forward with the "U.S. and Mexico trade agreement." In today's RealAg Radio show, host Shaun Haney, along with Jessika Guse, breaks down what you need to know about... Read More
If you think you've got a challenging territory to cover, have you considered being an agronomist in several provinces, nearly 2,000 kilometres apart? That's what Steph Kowalski, agronomy lead for the Agromart Group, tackles season in and season out as she covers not only Ontario, but much of the Atlantic provinces, as well. Long-distance agronomy... Read More
Each summer, field days are held all over the agriculture areas of Canada. They provide real insight and hands-on learning for growers under local conditions. Recently, Sure Growth Technologies hosted its annual field day on the Aberhart farm, just north of Marchwell, on the Saskatchewan side of the Manitoba/Saskatchewan border. The local joke is that... Read More
Canada’s fourth Beef Quality Audit (BQA) was completed in March 2018, following previous audits in 1995, 1998, and 2010/11. The carcass audit measured the incidence and economic costs of avoidable defects in Canadian slaughter cattle and beef and identified opportunities to avoid these losses. The BQA is one way to check back on several data... Read More
There's no messing around when the lead researcher of the subsurface drip irrigation (SDI) system at Lethbridge College asks for soil for her project. Bins measuring six by three metres and one metre deep were filled with three different, but common topsoil types found in southern Alberta. They include Grassy Lake sand, Lomond loam and... Read More
On Friday's show, with host Shaun Haney: Top ag news, including latest on U.S. trade aid, wildfires in B.C., response to Maxime Bernier's departure from the Conservative Party, NAFTA, CPTPP and more Product spotlight: Jason Lindgren of Nufarm on post-harvest weed control Kelsey Johnson of iPolitics from the Conservative Party convention in Halifax Anne Wasko... Read More
After seed is placed in the ground, the yield potential of a crop is often determined by water availability. If it's too dry, a grower may decide against top-dressing fertilizer or applying a fungicide. In other cases, there might be more soil moisture available to the plants than recent weather or a rain gauge would... Read More
You might be forgiven for thinking that every fall is the same when it comes to cattle leaving the summer range and heading off to the auction ring. Every fall is different and every fall farmers study the markets to see how they can best react to what they see coming up. Anne Wasko, market... Read More