In the broad category of precision agriculture, Climate FieldView is one of the main platforms available. In this RealAg LIVE!, host Shaun Haney speaks with Denise Hockaday, climate lead from FieldView Canada, about the software that allows farmers to analyze their farm data virtually anywhere with the handy Climate FieldView app. Don’t miss RealAg LIVE!... Read More
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Solo crop touring isn't as fun and seems a little out of the norm compared to normal tour set-ups, but that's just the situation that, like many companies, FarmLink Marketing found themselves in this year. All safety protocols were recently taken into consideration for a crop tour put on by FarmLink Marketing says Neil Townsend,... Read More
Fusarium head blight (FHB) is a big concern for wheat growers each season, but some years, like 2020, the risk is incredibly high for a huge portion of the Prairies. The provincial FHB risk maps were lit up red and yellow for much of the growing season until about now. For many, early August may... Read More
For those just starting their careers in agriculture, it might seem strange to think that one of the most controversial topics in the past was about whether or not farmers could sell their own wheat and barley to an end user. Just eight years ago, the Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) had its single desk removed.... Read More
Tillers are a totally normal physiological process in corn — since it is a grass like wheat or barley — and they're nothing to be concerned about. They're also nothing to get excited about either, as unlike wheat or barley, tillers don't contribute to yield. In this episode of Corn School (this time in the... Read More
In this Wednesday edition of RealAg LIVE!, host Shaun Haney is joined by Arlan Suderman, chief commodities economist at StoneX. Shaun and Arlan talk trade relationships and patterns, the impacts of weather and disease, new frontiers in agriculture, and so much more (read more below the video player). Don’t miss RealAg LIVE! each Tuesday to... Read More
Peter "Wheat Pete" Johnson is back for this episode of RealAg LIVE! and he's brought his own fancy charts and weather requests. Listen below or download the podcast for later, and get a mid-season agronomy update for Ontario, some crop info for water use, and a nitrogen comparison show-down. Don’t miss RealAg LIVE! each Tuesday... Read More
Usually when a farmer considers using a planter in Western Canada, it's to plant canola crops, not pulse crops. But there are those exploring that option in Alberta. Scott Gillespie, independent agronomist with Plants Dig Soil Consulting, has been working at scaling up plot trials he first saw at Farming Smarter. In this episode of... Read More
A certain caterpillar that blew in on the wind may be wreaking havoc in your cereal crops. John Gavloski, provincial entomologist for Manitoba Agriculture and Resource Development, joined Kara Oosterhuis for this episode of Wheat School to talk all things armyworm. Armyworm is different from bertha armyworm in a few ways: their preferred food is... Read More
It's not traditionally a time of year where we see big boosts to several crop price complexes, but what about 2020 has been normal? In this grain market Q&A LIVE!, Brian Voth, of IntelliFarm, sits down with sports-starved host Shaun Haney to talk corn, canola, soybeans, ethanol, baseball, spring wheat and more! Don’t miss RealAg... Read More