Here's Thursday's edition of RealAg Radio, with cohosts Shaun Haney and Kelvin Heppner. Highlights: With Wayne Easter and other Liberal MPs voicing concerns about the proposed federal tax changes, will Ag Minister Lawrence MacAulay speak up about the potential impact it could have on agriculture? Mark Brock, chair of Grain Farmers of Ontario, discusses the... Read More
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Wednesday's edition of RealAg Radio in front of a live audience at day two of Canada's Outdoor Farm Show in Woodstock, Ontario, hosted by Shaun Haney and RealAg agronomist Peter Johnson. Highlights: Peter answers all kinds of agronomy questions from the audience. Rocky Talk with Joel Hoehn on winterizing your sprayer. Aaron Stevanus of Pride... Read More
Today's special edition of RealAg Radio (recorded at Canada's Outdoor Farm Show) is hosted by Shaun Haney and Peter Johnson. Highlights include: An update on Ontario crop conditions. Matthew Pot, Grain Perspectives, joins for a market update around Tuesday's USDA estimates. Canada's Outdoor Farm Show audience takes part in the conversation with questions around: hog... Read More
Today's RealAg Radio podcast, hosted by Shaun Haney and Kelvin Heppner — highlights: Peter Johnson, RealAgriculture's resident agronomist, joins the show to talk about how soil compaction awareness is changing how we farm in North America, following the Compaction Action event in Ontario last week. Peter and Kelvin also chat about the new, Real Dream... Read More
Here's the RealAg Radio September 8 podcast, hosted by Shaun Haney and Kelvin Heppner — highlights: Sask. harvest well ahead of normal; Kevin Folta taking the New York Times to court; JP Gervais, chief economist with Farm Credit Canada, on the Bank of Canada's decision to raise interest rates again and the stronger Canadian dollar;... Read More
Thursday's edition of RealAg Radio, hosted by Shaun Haney — highlights: Red Sox allegedly using technology (an Apple watch) to cheat (steal and communicate the catcher's signs) — Does this happen in agriculture? Is this any different than companies spying on each other with drones? Haney says he's heard of seed companies planting dummy plots... Read More
On this Wednesday edition of the podcast, you'll hear: Top ag news stories: an update on the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), Bank of Canada raises interest rates for the second time in the same number of months, Liberals not planning to back down on small business tax proposal, ranchers affected by BC's forest... Read More
Since we missed 'Agronomy Monday' due to the Labour Day weekend, welcome to 'Agronomy Tuesday,' with co-hosts Shaun Haney and Kelvin Heppner. On today's podcast: Peter Johnson, RealAg agronomist, discusses impact of late rains on soybean and corn yield potential, as well as fall weed control and potash rec's for winter wheat; Ryan Rubischko, dicamba... Read More
Friday's show hosted by Shaun Haney and Kelvin Heppner, back from Farm Progress Show — featuring: RealAg Roundtable with Shaun, Kelvin, and Bernard Tobin Recap of StatsCan report; Discussion about Gerry Ritz's legacy, as the former ag minister retires from federal politics; Will Ritz's successor Lawrence MacAulay stand up to his Liberal colleagues on proposed... Read More
It's already Thursday, and in this episode of RealAg Radio, Shaun Haney covers: U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue was pressed at Farm Progress Show in Illinois yesterday on the conflicting messages surrounding NAFTA negotiation. StatsCan production report released this morning. DLN Agventures' Dwight Nichol joins Haney to talk about the numbers. The two talk durum... Read More