Peter Johnson is back from his agriculture mission in Zambia, and ready to rock and roll with this week's edition of Wheat Pete's Word. From how different organic matter additions can speed up or slow down residue breakdown, to why rotation matters so very much, to a talk on phosphorus as-applied vs. actual, Johnson gets... Read More
Category: Podcasts
Today's show features Iris Meck, host of the Advancing Women in Ag Conference underway in Calgary; Michael Barrett, president and CEO of Gay Lea Foods; and Dan Thurmon, author of Off Balance On Purpose and one of the featured speakers on TechTour Live next week. Shaun and Kelvin also discuss the launch of consultations on... Read More
Record production and big supplies continue to weigh on grain markets, and yet, corn and soybean futures have remained relatively strong, and even trended higher, since fall. "There's definitely been a shift in the narrative, from an outside fund, speculative money perspective," explains Jon Driedger of FarmLink Marketing Solutions in this market conversation. Driedger joined... Read More
It almost sounds too good to be true, with farmers often feeling the general public is uninformed and uninterested in agriculture, but urban media outlets are realizing stories about farming and food resonate with their audiences. Whether it's the 'wow' factor, interesting personal stories, great visuals, or top-of-mind topics related to our own health or... Read More
It's another Agronomy Monday on RealAg Radio! Shaun and Kelvin are back from Commodity Classic in San Antonio, and on to the Advancing Women in Ag Conference in Calgary... Today's show includes the latest on DuPont Pioneer's plans for crops developed using CRISPR gene editing technology, the impact of planter downforce on corn emergence, winter... Read More
"Big data" is a term that gets thrown around very regularly. In agriculture there are currently many players in the big data space, but few are making in-roads across the world. At Commodity Classic in San Antonio, Farmers Edge made a major move ahead of the competition by releasing the new Farm Command platform, which... Read More
Shaun and Kelvin are down in San Antonio, Texas for the annual Commodity Classic convention. In front of a live audience in the Farmers Edge booth, today's show includes discussion about canola's economic contribution and the Ont. government's plan to reduce hydroelectricity rates. Farmers Edge CEO Wade Barnes joins to discuss the launch of the... Read More
Growing farmer interest in planting canola with a planter rather than seeding it with a traditional air drill was evident at Ag Days 2017 in Brandon. The expansion of soybean and corn acres in Western Canada and the Northern Plains is a primary driver, making it easier for canola growers to justify purchasing a planter,... Read More
It's day 2 of Ag Expo in Lethbridge, and Shaun's on location from the Haney Farms booth for today's show. Guests include Sandra Smith from Haney Farms, Graeme Finn of Union Forage and panel on the merits of using a stripper header with southern Alberta farmers Kevin Serfas and Ryan Mercer. RealAg Radio will be... Read More
Oxford dictionary defines "post-truth" as "relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief." We're seeing this term thrown around by the media in the context of recent politics, but these "post-truth" conditions are really nothing new for agriculture. "This has... Read More