Canadian Pacific railway (CP) moved 31.32 million metric tonnes (MMT) of Canadian grain and grain products in 2020 — a record over any prior calendar year. The company was busy in the fourth quarter, where they moved 8.84 MMT. This beats the previous record by 5.1 per cent. Joan Hardy, CP vice-president of sales and... Read More
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You sent some soil samples away, whether it was from your own farm or on behalf of a farmer, and now you have the results. How do you begin to fully understand the results? What you do with the results can make or break some (expensive!) decisions. For this episode of The Agronomists, Ryan Benjamins... Read More
Welcome back for this 2021 season of RealAg LIVE! To kick off the New Year, we're talking planning, planning, and more planning when it comes to corn acres in the year ahead. To get the goods on what main areas to focus on — from hybrid selection and trials, to resistance management, overall agronomy, and... Read More
Most of us are very much looking forward to closing the book on 2020. We can't possibly move forward into 2021, however, without a last look back at the year that was -- in the news, regarding policy, and everything else that caught our attention. Unsurprisingly, COVID-19 related news and events dominated the year's stories,... Read More
2020 has been a year to remember. It has brought upon a tonne of negatives as we all navigate through COVID-19, but as we look at the negatives, many forget to reflect on the positives as well. So, our content team here at RealAgriculture decided to finish up the year on a positive note. We... Read More
When it comes to choosing employees for your operation, it's not as easy as many would think. There are many factors to consider: do you hire full time? Do you hire seasonal? How many people do you keep on board? And then comes the trickiest of them all — how does one determine who is... Read More
Not long ago, we posed the question: if you could choose a celebrity to rep agriculture, who would it be? Former NHLer and host of Spittin' Chiclets podcast Paul Bissonette didn't make the list, but McDonald's Canada clearly had him in its sights. I’ve teamed up with @mcdonaldscanada to bring you this 4-minute beef sustainability... Read More
Whether you're an experienced soybean grower, or are looking to get into this interesting leguminous oilseed crop, there's always something to learn. In this episode of Soybean School, we take a look back at the past year's soybean season in Manitoba — what went right, what went wrong, and what kind of knowledge we gleaned…Read More
Community organizations have really struggled this year — especially with fundraising. Many of the events that were scheduled for the year, and subsequently cancelled, were meant as the major fundraiser for food banks, churches, daycares, and other important parts of rural communities. A big boost to these rural community organizations came from UFA, and joining... Read More
When it comes to marketing grain crops, we all seem to have different strategies, and there isn't necessarily one 'correct' answer. In the late 2020 oilseeds market, we are seeing highs that haven't been experienced in years. And the prices just keep climbing. Those that sold weeks ago at what they thought were the highs,... Read More