Real Agriculture

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Canada may have an abundance of land, but those acres are under immense pressure to serve multiple purposesresidential and industrial development, food production, biodiversity, carbon sequestration, solar and wind energy generation, recreation, and more. As we Read More

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Farmland Acre Production Food 170

Real Agriculture

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

The same principle works when farmers save pennies over the course of thousands of acres the savings add up. The same principle works when farmers save pennies over the course of thousands of acres the savings add up.

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Crop Yield Acre Production 289

Real Agriculture

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Diversity can mean many things to many people and when it comes to a grower diversifying variety choices, the goal is to mitigate risk, push yields, and maximize profit on every acre.

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Yield Seeding Acre Farming 253

Real Agriculture

JANUARY 11, 2024

The weakest prices in over three years, combined with prospects of another drought, are expected to put a dent in canola acres as cropping decisions for 2024 are finalized. Unfortunately for those on the selling side, grain and oilseed markets have been posting losses like the Ottawa Senators or Columbus Blue Jackets rather than Jonathon.

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Acre Grain Marketing Crop 260

Food Politics

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The USDA announced the latest data on the US agricultural system in a press release. million (down 7% from 2017) Average size: 463 acres (up 5%) Total farmland: 880 million acres of farmland (down 2%), accounting for 39% of all U.S. It summarizes the highlights: Number of farms: 1.9 Farms with sales of $50,000 or less: 1.4

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Agriculture Agriculture Farmland Acre 288

Real Agriculture

JULY 5, 2023

How do you cover acres quickly during planting season with big equipment without causing compaction and compromising yield? Read More How do you cover acres quickly during planting season with big equipment without causing compaction and compromising yield? The brothers farm in Perth County, Ont.,

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Acre Tractor Yield Harvesting 244

Real Agriculture

MARCH 11, 2024

Acres of corn and soybeans are expected to be similar to last year, while wheat and canola area is expected to drop slightly, according to Statistics Canada’s acreage estimates published on Monday, March 11. Canadian farmers will be planting more pulse crops, oats, and durum in 2024. Most of the estimates were within the range.

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Acre Crop Grain Marketing 273

Real Agriculture

JULY 17, 2024

If refill times at seeding are a pet peeve, take a look at Vaderstad’s newest air cart offering, the PD 1350, capable of covering 200 acres of canola seeding in a single fill. That 1350 stands for bushels, and as Phil Korczak explains in this video from Ag in Motion this week, that capacity is spread.

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Acre Seeding Production Crop 229

Real Agriculture

MARCH 26, 2025

Georgia grower Alex Harrell offered proof of that again in 2024 when he smashed his previous yield record with a new harvest benchmark a whopping 218 bushels per acre. Georgia grower Alex Harrell offered proof of that again in 2024 when he smashed his previous yield record with a new harvest benchmark a whopping 218 bushels per acre.

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Yield Acre Harvesting Harvest 184

Real Agriculture

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Record high prices and seeded acres in 2022 led to a dramatic decline in prices and production in 2023. Acres are expected to increase. Record high prices and seeded acres in 2022 led to a dramatic decline in prices and production in 2023. Acres are expected to increase. Read More

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Marketing Acre Seeding Production 300

Real Agriculture

JANUARY 10, 2024

Labour shortage is an issue for farming around the globe and an expanding list of agricultural equipment manufacturers are looking to autonomous robots to provide a solution for their customers. Read More

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Agricultural equipment Manufacturing Acre Production 245

Real Agriculture

JUNE 17, 2024

Farmers in six Ontario counties have until Tuesday, June 18, to plant corn and still receive production insurance coverage through Agricorp. The announcement came late last week for corn acres being planted in Lambton, Middlesex, Niagara, Chatham-Kent, Essex, and Elgin counties.

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Acre Production Farming Farming 302

Real Agriculture

JANUARY 24, 2024

Biologicals hold great promise for improving crop production. From increasing root activity, soil microbes, and nutrient availability to building plant resiliency to abiotic stresses — this emerging crop input segment is bursting with product choices. Read More Biologicals hold great promise for improving crop production.

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Acre Production Farming Farming 267

Real Agriculture

JANUARY 24, 2024

What do you get when two Canadians descend on the Northern U.S.? Why, a pulses market outlook, of course. This week, Chuck Penner of Leftfield Commodity Research, was a keynote speaker at the Northern Pulse Growers Association AGM. Shaun Haney hosted RealAg Radio from the meeting, and that gave the pair a chance to talk.

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Marketing Acre Grain Production 291

Real Agriculture

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Southwestern Ontario is home to some of Canada’s most productive farmland. In recent years, land values have climbed to dizzying heights with competition for top acres driving sales for some farms into the $40,000-per-acre range. Read More Southwestern Ontario is home to some of Canada’s most productive farmland.

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Acre Farmland Production Farming 284

Real Agriculture

JUNE 11, 2024

As the calendar pushes to mid-June, growers in areas of the province still struggling with wet planting conditions are now deciding whether to try to plant corn, switch to soybeans, or make unseeded acreage claims. Agronomists and ag reps attending a Ridgetown, Ont., virtual Ag Business Breakfast Meeting on Tuesday did their best to assess.

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Acre Production Crop 258

Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Mexico border, California’s Imperial Valley is both a desert and an agricultural wonder. Yet carrots, cauliflower, sweet onions, honeydew, broccoli, and alfalfa all grow here, incongruous crops that spread across half a million acres of cultivated land. Ronald Leimgruber farms 3,500 of those acres. Just north of the U.S.-Mexico

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Farming Farming Crop Acre 142

World Agri-Tech

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Sound Agriculture Secures $25M to Advance Bioinspired Nutrient Efficiency Solutions Emeryville, Calif. December 17, 2024) Sound Agriculture, a high growth agtech company, has spun out its leading plant epigenetics platform and completed a $25 million extension of its Series D raise. After reaching 2 million acres in the U.S.

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Agriculture Agriculture Acre Crop 52

Real Agriculture

MAY 10, 2024

India is nearly half-way through a six-week election period, and the government there is making sure it stays in the citizens’ good graces. That, in part, may have driven the decision by India to further extend a dropped tariff on imported peas out to October. Chuck Penner, founder of Leftfield Commodity Research, says that India.

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Acre Grain Marketing Production 273

ProAg

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

million acres of farm and ranchland across the country. Even more impressive is that the area covered by crop insurance has grown by more than 205 million acres since the 2018 Farm Bill was enacted, a 61% increase. And lawmakers are clearly succeeding – to the tune of 205 million acres in the past five years alone.

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Acre Crop Farming Farming 59

Cropaia

MARCH 28, 2025

Precision agriculture has enabled unprecedented fine-tuning of crop management from variable-rate fertilization to micro-zone irrigation. What Is Overfitting in Agriculture? Translating that to agriculture: imagine we have dense soil test data across a field and create a different fertilizer blend for every slight variation.

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Agriculture Agriculture Yield Fertilizer 85

Real Agriculture

JULY 18, 2024

There are about 85,000 acres of potatoes on Prince Edward Island and every year an increasing number of those acres are planted to winter wheat after potatoes are harvested in September and October.

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Crop Rotation Acre Harvesting Harvest 312

Real Agriculture

JULY 13, 2023

The meeting of food production and solar power off the same acre has a name — agrivoltaics. While new, early adopters and research alike point to some real benefits of marrying power and food production, contrary. Read More The meeting of food production and solar power off the same acre has a name — agrivoltaics.

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Acre Production Food Livestock 246

Real Agriculture

OCTOBER 7, 2024

bushels per acre. bushels/acre, while John Kilbourne of Ontario finished third with a yield of 160.2 bushels/acre. Nick Suwyn from Michigan has topped the 2024 Great Lakes Yield Enhancement Network wheat yield contest with 171.9 Jeffery Krohn, also of Michigan, took second place at 170.1 Read More

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Yield Acre Grain Production 304

Real Agriculture

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Covering 40,000 acres a year with a sprayer is a big job. So how does one guy get over all those acres? Read More Covering 40,000 acres a year with a sprayer is a big job. So how does one guy get over all those acres? At Shawridge Farms, a large cash crop and commercial grain elevator operation located in Arthur, Ont.,

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Cash Crop Acre Farming Farming 335

Real Agriculture

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

The Governments of Canada and Saskatchewan are reporting a record-breaking level of payments under the Saskatchewan Crop Insurance Corporation (SCIC) Forage Rainfall Insurance Program. Total 2023 program indemnities paid have totalled $60.4 million across SCIC’s 17 forage risk zones.

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Forage Acre Crop Livestock 285

UnderstandingAg

APRIL 3, 2025

By: Kyle Richardville, Understanding Ag, LLC About the Understanding series Agriculture isnt rocket science. Introduction Someone wise once said, Were not managing problems in agriculture anymore. He applied two tons of lime per acre that year, but did not apply any more lime after that. Its much more complex than that.

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Acre Fertilizer Pasture Crop 97

Real Agriculture

MAY 16, 2024

Across the province, acreage for the entire oilseed crop typically checks in around 40,000 acres, with about one third of the crop being planted in the fall, the rest being spring canola. Over the past five year years, however, winter canola has been gaining momentum in. Read More Winter canola fields are popping up all over Ontario.

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Acre Crop Ruralism Production 314

Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Despite having nearly a billion acres of prime farmland and a population of only 330 million people, the U.S. agriculture system, often claimed to be able to feed the world, can no longer feed its own population. This shows in Americas growing agricultural trade deficit, projected to reach a record-breaking $45.5

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Food Production Crop Farming 133

Real Agriculture

JUNE 14, 2024

Over the past five years, the cereal crop has seen significant growth with total acreage on Prince Edward Island alone climbing near 25,000 acres. Over the past five years, the cereal crop has seen significant growth with total acreage on Prince Edward Island alone climbing near 25,000 acres. Read More

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Acre Crop Production 322

Real Agriculture

MAY 9, 2024

Across the province, the Ontario greenhouse vegetable industry grows tomatoes, cucumbers and peppers in 3,900 acres of greehhouse, producing 521 million kilograms of fresh vegetables with a farm gate value of more than $1.4 Red Sun Farms in Kingsville, Ont., is one of 170 greenhouse vegetable farms in Ontario. On this episode of Profitable.

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Greenhouse Farming Farming Acre 322

Food Politics

JUNE 19, 2024

The FDA has issued its boringly titled Southwest Agricultural Region Environmental Microbiology Study (2019 – 2024). Special attention was given to the geography of the study region and the types and locations of agricultural and other adjacent and nearby land use activities relative to produce production areas. generic E.

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Compost Mechanics Food Production 299

Real Agriculture

AUGUST 14, 2024

Flory, host of AgriTalk, says the USDA’s move to knock off 700,000 acres of corn and add a million soybean acres does make sense, but. Flory, host of AgriTalk, says the USDA’s move to knock off 700,000 acres of corn and add a million soybean acres does make sense, but. Read More

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Acre Yield Crop Grain 274

Real Agriculture

AUGUST 12, 2024

Efficiency is everything when timeframes are tight and acres are many. Read More Efficiency is everything when timeframes are tight and acres are many. Read More Efficiency is everything when timeframes are tight and acres are many. Read More

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Fertilizer Acre Seeding Production 311

Real Agriculture

JUNE 26, 2024

The Arva R&D Innovation Centre is located on a 100-acre site just north. The Arva R&D Innovation Centre is located on a 100-acre site just north. The renovations mark the first significant update to the site in 30 years. The renovations mark the first significant update to the site in 30 years. Read More

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Seeding Acre Production Crop 313

Real Agriculture

JUNE 25, 2024

Planting season started in late April and some growers are now just getting their last acres in the ground during the final days of June. Planting season started in late April and some growers are now just getting their last acres in the ground during the final days of June. It’s been a tough spring for planting corn in Ontario.

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Crop Acre Yield Production 311

Real Agriculture

OCTOBER 18, 2024

High-capacity combines are finding a fit in edible bean fields as growers look to cover more soy, corn, wheat and edible acres with fewer machines, and also take advantage of their gentler grain handling capabilities. On this episode of RealAgriculture’s Edible Bean School, host Bernard Tobin rides along with Fred Van Osch of Van Osch.

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Harvest Harvester Harvesting Acre 311