Shaun hosts today's show, with guests including Deb Stark — newly retired deputy minister of agriculture in Ontario, Portia MacDonald-Dewhirst of the Canadian Ag HR Council and Farm Journal Foundation's Stephanie Mercier. Tune in to RealAg Radio every weekday at 4pm eastern on Rural Radio 147 on SiriusXM!
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The latest ag news, glyphosate resistant palmer amaranth update, soybean lessons from '16, deep ripping fails, and the latest on the Trump transition and issues that could impact Canadian ag. Guests include Horst Bohner of OMAFRA, Aaron Daigh of NDSU, Kirk Howatt of NDSU and Agri-Pulse's Sara Wyant. Tune in to RealAg Radio every weekday... Read More
Do you test your soil? Do you test every field every year? What's your strategy? If you're still not sure about the value of soil tests or the best way to sample, this sixth episode of the Growing Series podcast will help shed light on those answers. In this episode, Shaun Haney is joined by... Read More
While the U.S. ag sector is closely following what's happening in Washington and who's visiting Trump Tower in New York, some of the developments in the transition to the new administration — whether it's renegotiating NAFTA or policy changes that impact corn and soybean demand — will also have implications for Canadian agriculture. Are North... Read More
Is Shaun Haney unknowingly biased? Why is agriculture so very short on good people to fill jobs — from the farm level to the corporate office? Portia MacDonald-Dewhirst joins (the possibly-biased) Haney to talk about recent research by the Canadian Agricultural Human Resource Council that outlined the huge personnel gap in farming and agriculture processing.... Read More
There's going to be a pile of low quality durum left in Western Canada that, for lack of better words, will need to disappear from the market. According to the StatsCan report out earlier this week, durum production totalled 7.8 million tonnes in 2016 — up over 40 percent versus 2015. With maybe half of... Read More
Shaun Haney hosts this Friday edition of RealAg Radio, featuring this week's agronomy update from RealAg agronomist Peter Johnson, Croplife Canada president & CEO Ted Menzies, and a panel conversation with three innovative farmers from across the prairies— Sterling Hilton, Strathmore, AB; Lauren Mauer, Grenfell, SK; and Kyle Friesen, Altona, MB (pictured above) — on... Read More
RealAg Radio host Shaun Haney is joined once again by field editor Lyndsey Smith for this Thursday edition of the SiriusXM Rural Radio show. It's the final day of Grow Canada, so after the top news stories of the day — including expanding young farmer loans, Australian pulse crops, and being overly optimistic about the... Read More
Seed companies are turning to new sources of resistance to protect canola against blackleg disease, as the pathogen population in Western Canada has adapted over the years. Until recently, most of the varieties marketed as "blackleg resistant" relied on what's known as the Rlm3 gene, explains Sakaria Liban, pathologist with DL Seeds, in this episode... Read More
From Ottawa, Shaun and Lyndsey discuss their Question Period experience and catch up with a number of the people in town for the GrowCanada conference, including a discussion about food choices with speaker & ag economist Jayson Lusk of Oklahoma State University, an impromptu appearance by Grain Growers' new past-president Gary Stanford, and Paul Thoroughgood... Read More