Tuesday's radio podcast, cohosted by Kelvin Heppner and Bern Tobin. Highlights: Ag in the Classroom Canada's Johanne Ross discusses $568,000 federal funding announcement and how it will be used; Canadian Ag Hall of Fame inductees for 2017 announced; Mark Lynas, former anti-GMO activist, on public attitudes toward GMOs and the new film in which he's... Read More
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A "biopesticide" is defined as a living organism that's capable of controlling a pest, including weeds. Dr. Susan Boyetchko, research scientist with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada in Saskatoon, specializes in biopesticide technology, and she's been working on a program to develop bio-based tools for controlling grassy weeds, such as wild oats and green foxtail. As... Read More
The Canadian Agricultural Hall of Fame has announced an all-female slate of inductees for 2017. Robynne Anderson, Patty Jones and Jean Szkotnicki will be formally inducted at a ceremony in Calgary on November 30th, 2017. Out of more than 210 individuals inducted since the Hall was formed in 1960, only five are women, notes Herb... Read More
It's Monday and that means we have an agronomy theme on today's show, hosted by Kelvin Heppner (Shaun Haney is away this week): Rick Bergmann, chair of the Canadian Pork Council, on the discussions surrounding trade and NAFTA negotiation at the World Pork Expo in Des Moines, as well as the PED outbreak in his... Read More
This article was updated June 13 with comments and an interview with Johanne Ross, executive director of Ag in the Classroom Canada. The federal government is contributing more than half a million dollars to Agriculture in the Classroom Canada to bring lessons about the agriculture and the career opportunities in the sector into schools. Agriculture... Read More
Less than ideal conditions have slowed down canola development and left the crop vulnerable to tiny 2.5 millimetre beetles in some areas this spring. Flea beetles are the number one pest in canola on the Western Canadian Prairies. In this Canola School episode, we talk with Tyler Wist, entomologist with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada in... Read More
Friday's RealAg Radio podcast, co-hosted by Shaun Haney and Kelvin Heppner, featuring: Mark Gold of Top Third Ag Marketing on today's USDA WASDE report; a market panel with Dwight Nichol of DLN AgVentures and Brian Voth of IntelliFarm Inc on the USDA numbers, drought concerns, tight canola supplies, and their market sleeper picks. Canadian dairy... Read More
From the road, it looks like a custom-made air seeder pulled by a Big Bud four-wheel drive tractor. But after your eyes move on from the rare tractor, you might notice something else. Those look like planter row units mounted on the frame. Having grown corn and soybeans in the southwest corner of Manitoba near... Read More
It's Thursday and that means we have another Farmer Rapid Fire segment lined up, along with our weekly agronomy update from Wheat Pete, who's on fire this week. Here's some of what co-hosts Shaun and Kelvin cover: New U.S. Drought Monitor maps show dryness in Northern Plains (extending into Canada) intensifying, and the markets are... Read More
The new president of the Canola Council of Canada says his goal is to follow through on the council's strategic plan, with priority shifting away from increasing acres to maximizing yields and value per acre for growers and the industry. Jim Everson's first official day in the Canola Council's office in Winnipeg was on May... Read More