A long-time pulse crop industry leader and champion is headed into the Canadian Agricultural Hall of Fame later this year. Gordon Bacon, former CEO of Pulse Canada, joined Shaun Haney on RealAg Radio this week to talk about his newly-announced induction into the Hall of Fame, and to look back on his career: from beginning... Read More
Category: Crop Production
What's the weirdest colour you've ever seen a crop turn? This week in Ontario, at least one farmer is reporting very dark straw where the wheat crop was touched by frost in late May. An agronomist also reports purple stems in another area. What the heck is happening here? Never fear, as Peter "Wheat Pete"... Read More
Grain growers are reporting that bluegrass is becoming a growing weedy issue in many Ontario field crops. There are three types of weedy bluegrass species that are being found: annual bluegrass, rough-stalk bluegrass, and Canada bluegrass. As Mike Cowbrough, Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs weed specialist explains in this Wheat School episode,... Read More
Cabbage seedpod weevil can cause considerable yield loss to a canola and other brassica crops, such as mustard. As adults, the pest is three to four millimetres in length, is ash-grey in colour, and has a prominent curved snout, similar to other weevils. Meghan Vankosky, field crop entomologist at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada Saskatoon, joins... Read More
The USDA projected tighter-than-expected wheat supplies for the 2021-22 crop year in its July World Agricultural Supply/Demand Estimates (WASDE) report released on Monday. Most of the other key figures in the report for the big three crops — corn, soy, and wheat — were in line with expectations, with yield projections left unchanged from June.... Read More
The University of Saskatchewan is establishing a new beef industry integrated forage management and utilization research chair position. The intent of the position is to connect the study of soils, plants, animals, economics, and ecosystems, to top into forage crops' full range of benefits. “The chair will help to address concerns raised for a number... Read More
Germany-based GeoPard is announcing their integration with the MyJohnDeere operations centre. MyJohnDeere customers can now upload their data into the GeoPard system, where they can do advanced data analysis, compare information to other data sets, and create detailed variable rate application maps for seeding, fertilizing, and spraying. Maps can then be wirelessly sent back to... Read More
Thanks for tuning into today's episode of RealAg Radio. Our guest host, Lyndsey Smith, has a great lineup for you! You'll hear: A Beef Market Update with Anne Wasko of the Gateway Livestock Exchange. A RealAg Issues Panel featuring Kelvin Heppner of RealAgriculture and Alberta farmer Jeff Nielsen. The panel discusses: Bill C-208, even though... Read More
What if corn, like soybeans, could fix its own nitrogen? It's a question agronomist Dale Cowan and his team at AGRIS Co-operative are tackling this summer as they test a biological product that promises to help corn plants fix nitrogen, when applied directly on the seed, in pop-up fertilizer, and through foliar application between the... Read More
Some Ontario edible bean and soybean fields are being hard hit by root rots, causing large patches of dead, dying, or highly stressed plants. The recent hard rains in some areas of the province have favoured root rot infection. Depressions or areas of high compaction or poor drainage tend to show the worst symptoms. Poor... Read More