If you've been scouting your wheat fields and seeing some strange colours in Ontario, you're probably not alone, and there may be a pretty simple explanation for it. We're back in the field for another update with Joanna Follings, cereal specialist with the Ontario Ministery of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs and RealAg's Peter "Wheat... Read More
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The in-person meetings aren't happening on Parliament Hill, but that doesn't mean lobbying efforts on behalf of farmers have stopped. For this episode of RealAg LIVE! host Shaun Haney is joined by Erin Gowriluk, executive director of the Grain Growers of Canada, to recap last week's Grain Week, how lobbying has changed during COVID-19, what's... Read More
Brandt Agricultural Products has recently launched a new purpose-built dozer blade attachment, suitable for 4WD tractors. The new unit is available in a variety of blade widths, heights and lugging configurations, designed to make it easy for farmers to find the right blade for their operation. The goal of this product-line addition is to enable... Read More
Creating new crop hybrids or varieties is expensive and time consuming with no real guarantee of a straight line to success. After all, it takes years to bring new lines to market, and industry demands can shift in that time frame. One company that's heavily invested in soybean breeding is Syngenta Canada. The company is... Read More
If you're not tracking your hours running vs. hours spraying, you might be losing out on a valuable productivity bump that requires only a few tweaks. As our guests for this episode of The Agronomists share below, gaining minutes at filling, or in turn arounds, or clean out, adds up to hours in productivity. Join... Read More
How has the protein supply chain changed in the last while, and how has COVID-19 changed things from March until now? What economic principles drive those price fluctuations that you might see in the grocery store? And why aren't there more federally inspected processing plants? It's time to talk livestock processing capacity challenges and opportunities... Read More
What goes on behind the scenes at RealAg? Today's LIVE guests are the team behind the content. You're probably familiar with host Shaun Haney, and you've seen field editors Kara Oosterhuis and Kelvin Heppner in interviews before. It's been a while since editor Lyndsey Smith has been on-screen though, and it's a first for staff... Read More
What is it about farmers in Quebec that makes them so effective at lobbying? Solidarity, for one, says our guest for this LIVE! episode. Guest host Kelvin Heppner of RealAgiculture is joined by Phil Shaw, grain farmer from Dresden, Ont., and markets columnist for DTN for 34 years, where they talk a little basketball, a... Read More
A new seed treatment from Syngenta specifically targets foliar infection of blackleg in canola with a new mode of action, adding another tool in the blackleg management toolbox. "[Saltro] really has nice fit in an integrated management system with crop rotations and, of course, the genetics play a key role," says Ted Labun, technical lead... Read More
Keep your soil covered, do as little tillage as possible, maintain a living root system 365 days a year, and fit it all into an economic model that makes money: this is sustainable soil health. It's a challenge, for sure, but it's one Dresden, Ont., farmer Woody Van Arkel is happy to tackle. On this... Read More