Category: Podcasts
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
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
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