Food prices in Canadian stores have declined for nine consecutive months, dating back to last September, as measured by Statistics Canada's Consumer Price Index. While the rate of depreciation has slowed since January, Kevin Grier, market analyst and author of the Grocery Trade Review, explains there are two main factors putting downward pressure on the... Read More
Category: Podcasts
Monday's RealAg Radio podcast, hosted by Kelvin Heppner and Kara Oosterhuis, featuring: Peter Johnson with tips for boosting protein to capture premiums in the wheat market, the impact of the current heat wave on wheat yield potential in Western Canada and the Northern U.S., and his thoughts on the reports of dicamba injury in the... Read More
Surging wheat markets mean there's plenty of profit potential in high protein wheat, and Peter Johnson has some tips to help you cash in on those premiums. In this episode of RealAgriculture Wheat School, Johnson, our resident agronomist and shameless wheat promoter, shares protein management insights for growers in Western Canada and spring wheat growers... Read More
When it comes to fungicide applications, pulses can be some of the more difficult crops to work with. Dense canopies and susceptibility to many different diseases makes disease management more complicated. In this Pulse School episode, we talk to Tom Wolf of Agrimetrix and Sprayers101.com about how to get fungicide to the part of the... Read More
Here's Friday's edition of RealAg Radio, hosted by Kara Oosterhuis and Kelvin Heppner: With current heatwave, concerns about drought and heat stress are mounting. Kevin Grier chats with Kelvin about the 9-month run of food price deflation in Canada, as well as the uptick in consumer spending on food. John Malott of Hiram Walker discusses... Read More
Thursday's edition of RealAg Radio, hosted by Bern Tobin and Kelvin Heppner: Field day season is here, and along with it, heat; Cover crop lessons from Ridgetown Crop Diagnostic Day and other highlights (shout out to the people who found Bern's keys in the field!); Manitoba farmer Matt Reimer discusses his self-made driverless grain cart... Read More
Fusarium, fusarium, fusarium. It's certainly on many minds right now, with fungicide season underway and all too fresh memories of fusarium-infected grain from 2016 Since you can't really scout for the disease, we have to use models, such as the brand new risk tool launched by the Alberta Wheat Commission and the Alberta Climate Information... Read More
Wednesday's RealAg Radio podcast, co-hosted by Kara Oosterhuis and Kelvin Heppner, featuring: latest news surrounding changes at the Canadian International Grains Institute, the PEDv outbreak in Manitoba, U.S. producer sentiment survey, Joey Chestnut's 10th world hotdog eating title and more. Rocky Talk...looking back on 175 years of Case. Tom Wolf of AgriMetrix on the issues... Read More
Insects, insects, insects! Peter Johnson is amazed by all the insects he is seeing this year. In this week's episode of Wheat Pete's Word, RealAg agronomist Peter Johnson talks about bugs, disease diagnostics, and weed control woes. He also has some "cover crop craziness" to discuss, and much more! Check out what Wheat Pete has... Read More
When you see the stem rot in the field, it's too late. And that's just one of the reasons why managing sclerotinia is a challenge, as exerienced in 2016, a severe year for the disease in canola fields in Western Canada. In this Canola School episode, we talk to Michael Harding, plant pathologist with Alberta... Read More