Soybean growers could soon have five herbicide-tolerance options in a single trait stack as Bayer Crop Science prepares to introduce its new Vyconic technology. At Canada’s Outdoor Farm Show in Woodstock, Ont., Bayer Crop Science agronomic solutions lead Adam Pfeffer joined RealAgriculture’s Bernard Tobin to discuss the technology, which Bayer expects to begin introducing in... Read More
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Diesel prices are hitting record-highs increasing cost pressure across Canadian agriculture at a crucial time. Gas prices are not rising as quickly — what's happening? Driven primarily by international refining bottlenecks rather than domestic crude supplies, Patrick De Haan, petroleum analyst with GasBuddy, says several factors are causing diesel prices to surge past $2.50 to... Read More
Welcome to this Tuesday edition of RealAg Radio with your host Lyndsey Smith! Today on the show, Lyndsey is joined by Patrick de Haan of GasBuddy for a diesel price outlook, Tim Darragh of Bayer for a spotlight interview, Ag Minister Heath MacDonald on the FCC Agri-Food Project Finance Fund, and Rob MacDonald of BASF... Read More
Welcome to another episode of the How Could I Know? podcast with co-hosts Patti Durand and Chris Corbett of Brightrack Consulting! On this episode, the hosts sit down with Bryan Maynard, farmer and co-owner of Farmboys Inc., located in Tyne Valley, Prince Edward Island. Maynard discusses employee and farm management, leadership, and the importance of... Read More
This week on The Agronomists, guest host Peter Johnson is joined by Dennis Pennington of Michigan State University and Jonathan Zettler of Fieldwalker Agronomy to talk winning with winter wheat and how variety choice, population levels, seeding date, row spacing, and weed control set the winter wheat crop up for success. The Agronomists is brought... Read More
When it comes to balancing the price of land and market value of crops up against a tight seeding window, some producers are looking to diversify the crop rotation away from the most common spring-seeded crops. Shaun Haney, host of RealAg Radio, caught up with Kenny Piecharka, head of North America with KWS Seeds, to... Read More
Welcome to RealAg Radio, brought to you by Nutrien eKonomics! Today on the show, your host Lyndsey Smith is joined by Peter ‘Wheat Pete’ Johnson for an agronomy conversation, Amy Crozier of Nutrien eKonomics for a spotlight interview, and Shane Strydhorst, chair of Pulse Canada and director with Alberta Pulse Growers, to talk about the... Read More
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada's Minister Heath MacDonald today announced the launch of Farm Credit Canada's (FCC) $1-billion Agri-Food Project Finance program to expand domestic capacity for value-added processing and manufacturing across the country. Capital-intensive agricultural infrastructure often struggles to secure traditional debt financing, leaving a gap where Canadian commodities are exported as raw goods and... Read More
Welcome to this week’s edition of RealAg on the Weekend with your host Shaun Haney! Today on the show, Haney is joined by Craig Johnston of FCC to discuss the Canadian and U.S. dollars, Kenny Piecharka of KWS Canada on hybrid rye versatility, and geopolitical analyst Jacob Shapiro on the Canada/U.S. trade war. Thoughts on... Read More
A challenging growing season can make harvest decisions anything but straightforward, especially when crops in the same area respond very differently to the conditions. Near Neerlandia, Alta., Shane Strydhorst, chair of Pulse Canada and director with Alberta Pulse Growers, is seeing that contrast firsthand in his pea and faba bean fields. A cool, wet spring…Read More