Each year at Canada's Farm Progress Show, Saskatchewan's newest Outstanding Young Farmers are chosen. This year's honourees are Jordan and Jennifer Lindgren. The Lindgrens farm at Norquay, in the northeast part of the province. Jordan grew up there and always knew he wanted to farm. Jennifer grew up on a mixed farm at Whishart and... Read More
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It's not often that we hear about first-generation farmers. It's also rare to hear about someone picking up and moving provinces to begin to farm, but that's what Steve Larocque did, moving from near Greely, Ontario, to eventually farm at Three Hills, Alberta. Larocque isn't just any grain farmer, either. Admittedly, he's small scale and... Read More
When the live cattle futures are limit up, it's a good day for cattle feeders. In these turbulent trade war times, any of the commodities will take a positive day. Cattle futures have been somewhat separated from the downward swing of soybeans, lean hogs, and wheat, but sometimes commodities are guilty by association. The table... Read More
There were no real fireworks in the StatsCan and USDA reports on Friday, heading into the Canada Day long weekend. Listen to Friday's show below, featuring: Top ag news, including Doug Ford and the PCs forming government in Ontario, Canada finalizing its tariff list against the U.S., new details on the bread price-fixing scheme and... Read More
Wheat has been progressing rapidly thanks to seasonally high temperatures in many areas over the past few weeks, quickly moving into and through the early flowering stage. Early flower is when a fungicide application to prevent fusarium head blight (FHB) is recommended. "Typically we'd expect flowering to start three days after head emergence, and flowering... Read More
Strip tillage in corn is growing in popularity in Ontario, but we don't often see the tillage strategy employed in soybeans. On this episode of RealAgriculture's Soybean School, AGRIS Co-operative agronomist Dale Cowan takes us to a strip-tilled field, which features twin row, 7.5-inch soybeans planted on 30-inch centres. In the field, Cowan's bother, Larry... Read More
Each July canola growers are faced with the difficult question, "Should I or shouldn't I spray for sclerotinia?" In the more humid parts of Western Canada, sclerotinia is a huge yield robber. It usually strikes on the years when the canola crop has its greatest yield potential, but spraying is expensive and proper timing can... Read More
As the U.S. attempts to fix its trade grievances with China, farmers watching a falling commodity market are having their patience tested. U.S President Donald Trump's biggest grievance is the trade imbalance that the U.S. has with China. As you can see below, in 2017 the U.S. exported US$129.9 billion in goods to China while... Read More
Does the future of farming have to be autonomous or is there still value in keeping a person at the helm of each piece of equipment? That's just one aspect of the human vs. machine discussion in today's episode of RealAg Radio — host Shaun Haney also explores the very real importance of the human... Read More
Dry conditions across much of Western Canada have some growers wrestling with the decision on whether or not to apply a fungicide — or to go with one application instead of two — to prevent leaf disease and fusarium head blight infection. There are several factors to consider, says Kelly Turkington, with Agriculture and Agri-Food... Read More