Marcel Kringe has taken his combine remote drop pan and separator east to show Ontario farmers how the innovation can reduce harvest losses. Manitoba-based Kringe, who hatched the idea with a co-worker while working as a custom combine driver, brought the Bushel Plus combine calibration system to Canada's Outdoor Farm Show (COFS) earlier this month.... Read More
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If your harvest (or seeding or spraying) has ever been shut down because of a piece of equipment throwing an error code, you probably need to know about the building concern over right-to-repair rules and regulations. In case you haven't heard, there's a growing rumble out of the U.S. pitting farmers against equipment manufacturers in... Read More
The new BBI Sniper spinner spreader from Salford gives growers the ability to spread fertilizer accurately up to 120 feet at variable rates, the company says. Salford marketing manager Anson Boak says the BBI Sniper is ideal for large-scale dry fertilizer application. In this video, recorded at Canada's Outdoor Farm Show (COFS), Boak explains how... Read More
If you own your own equipment, the equipment that sits on your own property, you should be able to repair said equipment yourself, right? Well maybe not. RealAgriculture's Ontario field editor Lyndsey Smith joins host Shaun Haney to discuss possible changes that could be coming to your right to repair. But first, Shaun is joined... Read More
This week's episode of Wheat Pete's Word runs nearly coast to coast, with questions from out west, down south, out east, and everywhere in between. From the on-fire soybean yields in Ontario, to the evergreen crop in Western Canada, to fungicide timing on forage crops, you won't want to miss Peter Johnson's answers to this... Read More
Patience is in short supply for Western Canada's farmers slogging through a tough harvest, but those waiting for a change in weather are just going to have to wait longer, according to Drew Lerner, of World Weather Inc. "The atmosphere is very unsettled right now," Lerner says. "There is a lot of cold air coming... Read More
Unwanted snow that blanketed parts of Alberta and Saskatchewan in the month of September has left many farmers at a standstill near the more-than-halfway point of harvest for the year. According to Karin Lindquist, forage and beef specialist with Alberta Agriculture, the frost could be also be a concern for nitrate accumulation. "What happens is,... Read More
Farmers in Ontario can anticipate active weather to continue well into October, says Drew Lerner, of World Weather Inc. While eastern Ontario is still cleaning up from last week's F3 and F2 tornadoes, parts of southern Ontario are experiencing nearly nightly weather alerts. Is this what we're in for for harvest? Lerner says that cool... Read More
It's a jam packed Tuesday on RealAg Radio. Host Shaun Haney opens the show with a listener comment about soybeans staying green. What's going on? Jessika Guse, news lead, is back for News with Guse and breaks down the top ag news stories of the day. They include: FCC's latest analysis of farm assets and... Read More