Weeds are thriving in Ontario winter wheat fields and in many cases are beyond the size for optimum weed control. In this episode of Real Agriculture Wheat School, Deb Campbell from Agronomy Advantage explains that winter annuals are seven to 10 days ahead of normal and that means growers will have to shift their mindset…Read More
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It's the last week of April and not only is there crop in the ground in areas of southern Ontario, but there's even a few corn and soy plants poking above ground! Don't feel bad, though, if that's not where you're at — there's plenty of field prep and planning still happening across not just... Read More
As Trump reportedly prepares an executive order to withdraw the U.S. from NAFTA, Shaun and Kelvin discuss the implications of what's happened this week on the Canada-U.S. trade front and what it could mean for Canadian agriculture. They also discuss planting delays in many areas, the ongoing bovine TB situation in Alberta, and the rebound... Read More
Representatives from Alberta's crop commissions held a conference call with Agriculture Minister Oneil Carlier and senior officials with Alberta's Agricultural Financial Services Corporation on Wednesday to discuss the need for intervention to help producers with the one million acres of 2016 crop still in the field. "Team Alberta" — the provincial canola, wheat, barley and... Read More
Tuesday's show features discussions with former federal agriculture minister, now Conservative trade file lead, Gerry Ritz on President Trump's tough talk on Canadian dairy; our own Lyndsey Smith on the future of glyphosate-use; and another AgNerds segment with Peter Gredig of AgNition on autonomous tractor design. Shaun and Kelvin also break down the day's news,... Read More
President Trump's attacks on Canadian dairy are short-sighted and don't reflect the reality of the Canada-U.S. dairy relationship, says former Canadian agriculture minister Gerry Ritz. "This is typical President Trump. It's all shock and awe, throw down the gauntlet and then really not have a lot of details that his assumptions are based on," he... Read More
You can't really blame mice and deer from taking a bite out of overwintering canola swaths — your crop is literally a giant buffet for them. And, of course, animals have never heard the saying "don't poop where you eat," and so, to add insult to injury, not only has overwintered canola been downgraded by…Read More
Today's show features Evan Fraser, director for the Arrell Food Institute at the University of Guelph; Don Flaten, soil scientist at the University of Manitoba; RealAg agronomist Peter Johnson; and Dwight Nichol of DLN AgVentures. Topics include the potential to create a "Silicon Valley" for food in southern Ontario, how phosphorus fertilizer is exported from... Read More
Around the globe, agriculture and food systems produce about 2,850 calories per person per day. That’s enough to feed the world explains University of Guelph professor Evan Fraser, but unfortunately we still have 800 million people who are undernourished. Even more perplexing is the fact that we have 2 billion people who struggle with being... Read More
Peter Johnson wishes farmers managed wheat more like corn. He admits that corn’s bigger yields and higher profitability creates more interest in intensively managing the crop, but that does not excuse growers from making good, basic wheat management decisions. One thing that drives Real Agriculture’s resident agronomist crazy is wheat growers who seed based on…Read More