When we first saw the above photo on Twitter early this month, we weren't sure what to think. Is it real? Has it been Photoshopped? Reports of heated canola aren't unusual, but a whole bin seemingly on fire? Well, it unfortunately was real, as around 1,600 bu of canola was destroyed on the farm near... Read More
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It's a dairy-themed day today on RealAg, as Kelvin hosts a "best-of" show highlighting interviews on robotics, labour, milk marketing, sustainability and public perception of animal care and more from the World Dairy Expo, Canadian Dairy XPO and Western Canadian Dairy Seminar. Guests include Marina von Keyserlingk of UBC, J.W. Schroeder of NDSU, Francisco Rodriguez... Read More
Shaun and Kelvin are both back in-studio for today's show, discussing the Monsanto shareholder vote on joining Bayer, changes to the Temporary Foreign Worker Program, farm-saved soybean seed, John Deere's electric tractor prototype and more. Perth County, Ont. farmer Amanda Brodhagen also joins Kelvin to chat about the large response to the recent CBC article... Read More
There's certainly a growing emphasis on reducing gender-related barriers in Canadian agriculture, whether that's measured by the success of conferences for women in ag, the launch of the Ag Women's Network, policy projects being led by the Canadian Ag HR Council, or through less formal means within individual workplaces. The topic has been in the... Read More
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!
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