Real Agriculture

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

The USDA boosted its harvested area for corn by 774 thousand acres to 87.1 million acres, resulting in a U.S. corn production estimate of 15.1 Markets came under pressure following the release of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s September supply/demand report on Tuesday. The average corn yield for. Read More

Acre 253

Acre Yield Harvesting Harvest 253

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

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.

Yield 253

Yield Seeding Acre Farming 253

Real Agriculture

MARCH 11, 2024

Canadian farmers will be planting more pulse crops, oats, and durum in 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. Most of the estimates were within the range.

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Acre Crop Grain Marketing 273

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

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MARCH 21, 2025

Crop insurance is the cornerstone of the farm safety net, insuring farms for losses from unpredictable weather, market fluctuations, and other risks. How Does Federal Crop Insurance Work? The 2022 Census of Agriculture revealed that 369,393 farm operations had crop insurance, covering a total of 298 million acres.

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Crop Farming Farming Acre 70

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

JULY 13, 2023

The federal and Saskatchewan governments have announced a change to crop insurance offered by Saskatchewan Crop Insurance Corporation (SCIC) to allow more acres of low-yielding crops to be redirected to help livestock producers.

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Crop Yield Livestock Acre 228

ProAg

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

From our industry partners at National Crop Insurance Services (NCIS) : In the formative days of our Republic, Benjamin Franklin wrote, “I have sometimes thought it might be well to establish an office of insurance for farms against the damage that may occur to them from storms, blights, insects, etc.” Why the tremendous growth?

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Acre Crop Farming Farming 59

Real Agriculture

JUNE 14, 2024

Winter wheat may be the fastest growing crop in Maritime Canada. 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 Winter wheat may be the fastest growing crop in Maritime Canada. Read More

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Acre Crop Production 322

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

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

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Covering 40,000 acres a year with a sprayer is a big job. At Shawridge Farms, a large cash crop and commercial grain elevator operation located in Arthur, Ont., 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?

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Cash Crop Acre Farming Farming 335

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

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Acre Crop Ruralism Production 314

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.,

Acre 244

Acre Tractor Yield Harvesting 244

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

AUGUST 13, 2024

With an average of over 20 million seeded acres in Canada, canola is one of Canada’s most widely grown crops. Used for cooking oil, processing foods, biofuel and protein for both animal feed and human consumption, it’s safe to say that it’s important to keep this vital crop protected from diseases such as clubroot, a.

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Biofuel Acre Seeding Crop 287

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

Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

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. Water Adaptation In the desert, getting water to crops often requires irrigation. million from EQIP (and $5.6

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Farming Farming Crop Acre 142

Real Agriculture

JANUARY 12, 2024

The battle for acres is set to play out in just over three months. Crop rotation plays a key part of decision making on final acres for any crop, but perhaps most of all for pulses, as aphanomyces and root rot risk factor prominently in pea and lentil decisions. But price factors too, and Jon. Read More

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Crop Rotation Acre Crop Production 272

Real Agriculture

AUGUST 21, 2024

As a growing season comes to a close, farmers are eager to clear off the fields and load up the bins, but it’s important not to rush through equipment set up, as machinery settings can make a big difference in final yield if not adjusted for crop conditions. With three to four bushel per acre. With three to four bushel per acre.

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Yield Acre Crop Harvester 282

Real Agriculture

JUNE 1, 2023

A new report commissioned by the Saskatchewan Stock Growers Association (SSGA) and the Saskatchewan Stock Growers Foundation (SSGF) looks at the differences in profitability between cow-calf and annual crop production in southwest Saskatchewan. Read More

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Acre Grain Ranching Crop 130

Real Agriculture

MAY 28, 2024

Planting across Ontario is nearing completion in many regions, but excessive rain continues to stall progress in some areas, leaving farmers to contemplate switching intended corn acres to soybeans. Read More

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Acre Crop Seeding Production 300

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

UnderstandingAg

APRIL 3, 2025

Its true that many products and practices widely adopted over the past 100 years intended to solve a problem have created new problems, sometimes more challenging than the ones they were designed to conquer. For them, a temporary break from cropping might be a good option. Were managing solutions. Unfortunately, 69.5%

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Acre Fertilizer Pasture Crop 97

Real Agriculture

JULY 4, 2024

Big corn acres in the U.S. and dandy looking crops in the west have created a bit of a supply issue for markets, one that could be helped by some serious export demand. Read More Big corn acres in the U.S. Read More Big corn acres in the U.S. For this early July grain market update, we. Read More

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Grain Marketing Acre Crop 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

JULY 28, 2023

There are plenty of acres in Western Canada that are seeing significant drought stress. Read More There are plenty of acres in Western Canada that are seeing significant drought stress. Read More There are plenty of acres in Western Canada that are seeing significant drought stress. Read More

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Pasture Acre Crop Production 246

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

Real Agriculture

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

No one likes snow in October, but it’s especially unwelcome when there is still crop in the field. For Ontario, however, so many thousands of acres of corn are now very wet and covered in snow, and. Read More No one likes snow in October, but it’s especially unwelcome when there is still crop in the field.

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Acre Harvesting Harvest Harvester 283

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

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. Department of Agriculture (USDA) oversubsidizes the production of corn and soybeans, which are used for livestock feed, ethanol, and to create sugars, starches, and oils that end up in highly processed foods. The number of U.S.

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Food Production Crop Farming 133

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

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

AUGUST 4, 2023

The crop protection company says it will establish its first technology development station in Canada at the college, which will include up to 80 acres of land for trials, as well as access to Olds College’s. Nufarm has announced a large research partnership with Old College in Alberta worth a million dollars over five years.

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Acre Technology Crop Production 246

Modern Farmer

APRIL 7, 2025

Farms come in all shapes and sizes, from a thousand-acre field planted in corn to a quarter-acre parcel supporting thirty different types of vegetables. One of the key differences between these two examples is the amount of crop diversity present. Increase Yields More diverse rotations can boost crop yields and resilience.

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Crop Crop Rotation Farming Farming 58