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
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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
Happy 4th of July to our American friends. Tuesday's RealAg Radio podcast is a 'best of' show featuring interviews on countering misinformation and fear when it comes to the science of food and agriculture, with Tim Caulfield, Kevin Folta, Mark Lynas, Pam Ronald and Joe Schwarcz. Join us for RealAg Radio every weekday at 4pm... Read More
When it comes to whisky, Canada is a little different. Whisky ingredients, brewing, distilling and aging rules are steeped in tradition in many countries, but Canadian whisky makers like Windsor, Ontario-based Hiram Walker & Sons Limited have very few restrictions. Canada is the most flexible and innovative whisky production market in the world, explains Hiram... Read More
Built from the late 70s through the mid 90s, there are still more than a few of the original Concord drills in operation in Western Canada and the Northern U.S. Around 6,000 Concord drills were built, with around 2,000 sold in Canada, but the name disappeared on new seeding equipment after Concord Inc. was bought... Read More