There’s a new person in charge of the federal agriculture file, as Justin Trudeau tapped Lawrence MacAulay as his new agriculture minister. Meanwhile, John Deere has been in the news with some investments in the area of precision planting, the TPP text has finally been released, and global grain supplies are growing faster than demand... Read More
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We know he’s a Liberal MP from Prince Edward Island who was was first elected in 1988. Among other roles, he’s been the Liberal Party Critic for Fisheries and Oceans, Secretary of State for Veterans Affairs, Minister of Labour and Solicitor General of Canada. Before entering federal politics, he was a dairy and potato farmer... Read More
In this week‘s episode of Wheat Pete’s Word, Peter Johnson, resident agronomist for RealAgriculture and host of this weekly podcast, starts off by talking about RealAgriculture. Then, as always, Johnson provides an update on crop conditions in Ontario. He also responds to a whole lot of feedback, rants on tillage and marvels about this year’s... Read More
Case IH says new features for its Axial-Flow 140 combine series will deliver superior harvesting and threshing performance, putting more higher-quality grain in the tank. The 2016 combines rolled out at the Farm Progress Show in Decatur, Illinois, in September and include many features farmers have seen on the company’s flagship class 8 and 9... Read More
Every year in the US, feed left in the bunk costs dairy producers $2 billion. That’s about eight percent of all the feed placed in front of dairy cows, says J. W. Schroeder. The North Dakota State Extension Dairy Specialist told a packed presentation room last month at the World Dairy Expo in Madison, Wisconsin,... Read More
The Canadian Seed Trade Association (CSTA) was founded in 1923 to represent Canadian businesses with a vested interest in seed research, marketing and production. Today, the association is made up of roughly 125 members, ranging from large multi-nationals to single-family seed growers, and across a diverse range of market segments. According to Scott Horner, president... Read More
Wheat futures have been unable to build any upward momentum since the middle of summer, as the market sits on a record-sized world crop waiting for fresh trend-setting news. U.S. currency strength is limiting export demand and the ability of Minneapolis-based futures to move higher, notes Mike Davey of FarmLink Marketing Solutions in the interview... Read More
Case IH’s 2016 Steiger tractor line-up is promising to get farmers up to speed faster with a more efficient transmission. The new transmission for the Steiger line, which features three row-crop tractors and four independent positive-drive track models, offers improved shifting performance and increased shuttle shift speed. The tractors were rolled out at the 2015... Read More
The AgriInvest program was designed to help Canadian farmers manage small declines in income, but the Canadian Federation of Agriculture wants the government to recognize the benefits of the program are much broader in scope. As one of the four main business risk management programs under the five-year Growing Forward 2 framework, AgriInvest offers producers... Read More
So eating processed meat can cause cancer? Dr. Joe Schwarcz of McGill University, host of “The Dr. Joe Show” and author of numerous books interpreting scientific information for the general public, joins RealAg’s Kelvin Heppner on this week’s TWORA podcast to explain the World Health Organization’s report linking processed and red meats to cancer. Elsewhere,... Read More