When it comes to making an impact or contribution to agriculture, there are few who can compare to the "father of canola." Dr. Keith Downey, long-time Agriculture Canada scientist in Saskatoon, worked together with Dr. Baldur Stefansson at the University of Manitoba in the early 1970s to develop canola. As part of SaskCanola's 25th anniversary... Read More
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The 2016 harvest seems difficult to forget but it's time to forget and focus on the spring that lies ahead. It's bitterly cold across the west this week so it's hard to think about spring weather, but for anyone that has crop left out in the field you are definitely hoping for an open, dry... Read More
Having turned the page on the calendar and last year's crop, the Western Canadian Crop Production Show in Saskatoon in early January provides an opportunity each year to get a read on crop plans and sentiment heading into another growing season on the prairies. As part of our radio coverage in Saskatoon this week, we... Read More
It's our fourth and final day at the Crop Production Show in Saskatoon, as Jim Hale, farmer from Lancer, Sask., joins Shaun as co-host for today's radio program (Thanks to a storm moving through the prairies, Kelvin's lost in airspace somewhere, flying between Saskatoon, Toronto and Calgary to get to Winnipeg.) After breaking down today's... Read More
It's a busy week in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, this week for CropSphere and the Crop Production Show. RealAgriculture's Shaun Haney, Kelvin Heppner, and Peter Johnson got together to wrap up the week-long conference. There was a surprisingly high level of optimism at the show with farmers looking ahead at 2017 as a new opportunity and a... Read More
From the Crop Production Show in Saskatoon, Shaun and Kelvin discuss the federal cabinet shuffle, changes to wheat check-offs in Western Canada and more on today's news. Guests include Drew Lerner of World Weather Inc with his forecast for Ontario, and a feature market panel, discussing old crop marketing opportunities, new crop acreage expectations, the... Read More
As the winter learning season rolls forward, the agronomy questions are flooding in, and Peter Johnson, host of Wheat Pete's Word, wouldn't have it any other way. In this week's episode, Johnson tackles some very complicated — but super important — ins and outs of nitrogen management. Confused about which crops leave a credit and... Read More
It's Crop Week in Saskatoon, as Shaun and Kelvin are on location at the Crop Production Show and CropSphere at Prairieland Park. Today's show features the latest news on Canada-U.S. trade, Drew Lerner of World Weather Inc's outlook for Western Canada, Keith Downey — the "father of canola" — looks back on the contribution he's... Read More
It's an "Agronomy Monday" edition of RealAg Radio, featuring discussion about lessons from 2016 — an agronomists panel conversation from SWAC, soybean acreage growth continuing in Western Canada, how to grow record corn yields and what protein is and does in a wheat kernel. Guests include Leanne Freitag, Russ Barker, Steph Kowalski, Dennis Lange, Randy... Read More
Dylan Sher didn't grow up on a farm. Coming from the Toronto area, the third-year agriculture student at the University of Guelph admits he didn't know much about farming before heading to university. And that's providing him with a unique perspective as he works toward the lofty goal of debuting a film about farming and... Read More