CNH Industrial hosted a tech day launch at Phoenix, Arizona, in early December and rolled out its first electric tractor prototype with autonomous features, the New Holland T4 Electric Power Hailed as the industry’s first all-electric light utility tractor prototype with autonomous features, the T4 was developed between the CNH team in the U.S. and... Read More
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Farmers and agronomists across Western Canada are understandably concerned about insecticide options for pest control in 2023. Following the late November announcement of lambda-cy-containing products Silencer and Matador being pulled from retail locations, many are wondering if the remaining available products will be in short supply for the year. One of the alternative options for... Read More
It was one year ago this month that Canada disclosed the finding of an atypical case of BSE. While the finding didn't impact most markets, it did create trade frustrations with China that are still not rectified. Unlike classical BSE cases, atypical BSE appears spontaneously in older cattle, even in countries where no classical BSE... Read More
The Christmas presents have been opened and you've finished the turkey leftovers. What's next for the holidays? Why not binge soybean videos! The RealAgriculture Soybean School published 30 videos in 2022 and here's your chance to see what you missed or do a double take on your favourite episodes. The 2022 season kicked off with... Read More
In agriculture — and hey, let's face it, across the world — we like to compartmentalize. Whether you are a conventional farmer, organic farmer, rancher, no-tiller, etc., there's a ton of crossover across all these systems. This topic came up earlier this week on RealAg Radio, when Bernard Tobin, Shaun Haney, and myself discussed our... Read More
As much as the 2023 growing season and following marketing year are highly unlikely to be as wild as 2022, there's still plenty of unknowns and volatility ahead. Neil Townsend, analyst with FarmLink Marketing Solutions, says there were definitely head-scratchers in the 2022 season — like when wheat prices shot up, then dropped, then settled... Read More
The U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) has requested new dispute settlement consultations with Canada under the Canada-U.S.-Mexico trade agreement (CUSMA or USMCA). Ambassador Katherine Tai says her office has identified additional aspects of Canada's dairy tariff-rate quota (TRQ) allocation process that it believes are inconsistent with Canada's obligations after initiating the latest dispute in May 2022.... Read More
The Canadian Transportation Agency has issued its ruling on how CN and CP Rail's profits from transporting Western Canadian grain compared with their regulated maximum grain revenue entitlements for the 2021-2022 crop year. CN's grain revenue last crop year was reported at $592,208,589 — $3,068,088 above its maximum entitlement, while CP's grain revenue was $515,508,638... Read More
The Atlantic Grains Council, Christian Farmers Federation of Ontario, Grain Farmers of Ontario, Grain Growers of Quebec, and Ontario Bean Growers are calling on the federal government to send the estimated $34.1 million paid in fertilizer tariffs up to June 30, 2022 directly to those farmers who paid it. In a press release sent late... Read More
Justine Hendricks has been appointed the new president and chief executive officer (CEO) of Farm Credit Canada (FCC). Hendricks has held various positions at Export Development Canada (EDC) over the past 16 years, and was named EDC's senior vice-president and chief corporate sustainability officer, of sustainability business and enablement in 2019. She also designed and... Read More