Real Agriculture

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Nitrogen fertilizer, however, is also prone to a few forms of losses: by water, and by air. All of these losses, by denitrification, leaching, or immobilization, can cost in underused or unused fertilizer, and losses by nitrous oxide emissions drag on the. Managing for nitrogen crop needs is a main driver for achieving top yields.

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Real Agriculture

DECEMBER 7, 2023

One spreader for both lime and granular fertilizer — that’s what Amazone has delivered with its new trailed ZG-TX combi-spreader. In this report from Agritechnica 23 at Hanover, Germany, Amazone’s Jeff Schott shares how the ZG-TX can apply both granular mineral fertilizers and earth-moist limes precisely through the one machine.

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Food Politics

OCTOBER 18, 2024

The Regenerative Agriculture Solution: A Revolutionary Approach to Building Soil, Creating Climate Resilience, and Supporting Human and Planetary Health. His friend, André Leu, memorializes Cummins’ lifelong work with this overview of the demonstrable benefits of regenerative agriculture for everything in the book’s subtitle, and more.

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Real Agriculture

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Amazone is touting its new boundary spreading feature as a tool that gives crop growers the confidence to spread full fertilizer rates to the edge of the field. Read More Amazone is touting its new boundary spreading feature as a tool that gives crop growers the confidence to spread full fertilizer rates to the edge of the field.

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Real Agriculture

JANUARY 27, 2025

Theres growing evidence that cover crops have the ability to support sustainably intensified agriculture. He makes a strong case to support the claim that cover crops have the ability to help agriculture produce more crops per acre while also preserving natural resources, including Read More

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Real Agriculture

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Grandmothers garden is often the first place that children learn about the benefit of having worms in the soil. They learn from an early age that you dont throw worms away, you put them back into the ground where you found them, says Mike Launer of Annelida Soil Solutions.

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Real Agriculture

OCTOBER 10, 2024

It’s difficult to overstate the impact that Hurricane Helene has had and continues to have on southeastern states such as North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee. Over 300 people have lost their lives, livestock have been killed or are still missing, and whole towns are without power or even passable road systems. Florida was also.

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Agricultural Biodiversity

MARCH 25, 2024

Out of the Shadows: Reestablishing the Eastern Fertile Crescent as a Center of Agricultural Origins: Part 1. Same for crop wild relatives in the Eastern Fertile Crescent? Go East, young archaeobotanists! Extinction risk predictions for the world’s flowering plants to support their conservation.

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Real Agriculture

JANUARY 23, 2025

Molecules in the air consist of 78 per cent nitrogen. During a lightning storm, the energy of a lightning bolt breaks apart nitrogen molecules, allowing them to form nitrogen oxides. These dissolve in rainwater as nitrates, which fall to the ground with the rain and add nitrogen to soil.

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Real Agriculture

JULY 3, 2024

Nutrients such as nitrogen and phosphorous move quite differently though the soil and understanding how they travel is key to helping growers choose the best application strategies. Phosphorous, for example, tends to be more like a tortoise, moving slow and methodically through the soil.

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Real Agriculture

MAY 13, 2024

Are crops really inefficient at taking up nitrogen? Actually, no — crops take up and store N in grain and also in stalks, stems, leaves, and roots, which can sometimes be overlooked in nitrogen removal calculations, leading some to think that there is more N “lost” than is actually so. But if crops are pretty.

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Real Agriculture

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

How does commercial nitrogen fertilizer impact soil organic matter? After reviewing decades of academic… Read More How does commercial nitrogen fertilizer impact soil organic matter? After reviewing decades of academic… Read More How does commercial nitrogen fertilizer impact soil organic matter?

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Real Agriculture

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

When it comes to improving fertilizer application and utilization, growers are encouraged to focus on the 4Rs — the right source, right rate, right time, and right place.

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Real Agriculture

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Pulses are well known for their ability to fix their own nitrogen in-crop, but some farmers choose to add starter nitrogen at seeding. Is it worth it? While pulses have the ability to fix their own nitrogen, they may need a little help at the start of the year to bridge the gap between seed.

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Agricultural Biodiversity

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Early agriculture and crop transitions at Kakapel Rockshelter in the Lake Victoria region of eastern Africa. Cotton and post-Neolithic investment agriculture in tropical Asia and Africa, with two routes to West Africa. Cotton and post-Neolithic investment agriculture in tropical Asia and Africa, with two routes to West Africa.

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Real Agriculture

MARCH 28, 2024

Soil tests are one tool for determining fertilizer needs of a particular field, but several other factors impact the overall productivity of any soil zone, regardless of nutrient level.

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Real Agriculture

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Bednar will be bringing its new Directo No seed drill to North America for 2024. Manufactured by family-owned Czech company, the seed drill is designed for direct seeding of various crops into uncultivated soil, stubble fields, catch crops or heavy and rocky soils. Jan Bednar, the company’s business director, says the Directo No 6000 seeder.

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Real Agriculture

AUGUST 16, 2024

Growers can best maintain fertility in forage fields to produce optimum grass and hay crops with a little help from the 4Rs of nutrient management, says Nutrien Premium Fertilizer Technologies senior agronomist Lyle Cowell.

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Real Agriculture

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Current dynamics of the fertilizer market are quite different from where they were just one year ago. To unravel the complex trade flows of phosphorus, potassium, and nitrogen fertilizer, Read More Current dynamics of the fertilizer market are quite different from where they were just one year ago.

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Real Agriculture

NOVEMBER 23, 2024

Presidential Election impact to Canadian agriculture. Haney is then joined by Josh Linville with StoneX to discuss fertilizer pricing and… Read More Thanks for tuning in to RealAg on the Weekend! Presidential Election impact to Canadian agriculture.

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Real Agriculture

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The Ontario Ministry of Agriculture Food and Rural Affairs has published its new Guide to Vegetable Production in Ontario – Publication 839.

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Real Agriculture

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Host Lyndsey Smith is joined by: Josh Linville with Stone X on the fertilizer markets; Dr. Ashleigh Weeden on rural development; Tyler McCann with Canadian Agri-Food Policy Institute (CAPI) on a risk report entitled Optimism to Realism; and, Hear a spotlight interview with Read More

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Real Agriculture

JUNE 11, 2024

In an ideal growing season, corn goes in to fit soil, with a strong starter fertilizer package, and a plan for a top-dress pass. In reality, the ’24 season in Ontario has started out as anything but ideal.

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Real Agriculture

AUGUST 29, 2024

Like most crops, a strong, high yielding corn crop depends on what nutrients are in the soil. Knowing what is currently in the field is key to deciding how much of what to add in.

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Real Agriculture

JULY 22, 2024

With a 90-foot boom for fertilizer, crop protection products, and seed, the Salford Group’s new AB640 applicator has the capability to cover 22 per cent more ground per pass compared to traditional 70-foot applicators. In this report from Ag In Motion at Saskatoon, SK., In this report from Ag In Motion at Saskatoon, SK.,

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Real Agriculture

MARCH 2, 2025

The long-term success of your farm is not only critical to your own profitability and prosperity, but it is critical to the success of the next generation on your farm. Setting up the next generation for success means creating a strong plan now and intensely managing your input costs and return on investment (ROI).

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Real Agriculture

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

When it comes crop nutrition, the macronutrients dominate the management discussion, and the fertilizer bill. But Read More When it comes crop nutrition, the macronutrients dominate the management discussion, and the fertilizer bill.

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Real Agriculture

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Prices for key fertilizer products, including potash and phosphates, have trended lower in 2024 but tumbling farm commodity prices are making it difficult to navigate input costs for the 2025 crop. In this report from the Farm Progress Show at Boone, Iowa, ADM Farm Direct Fertilizer’s Chris Meyer says he and his team are having.

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Real Agriculture

JANUARY 2, 2025

But that same holding capacity of a soil can mean that added phosphorus fertilizer and soil-held P isnt always readily available to the crop. But that same holding capacity of a soil can mean that added phosphorus fertilizer and soil-held P isnt always readily available to the crop.

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Real Agriculture

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

There is a lot more going on beneath our feet than what meets the eye. Soil is home to billions upon billions of microbes that benefit plants.

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Real Agriculture

AUGUST 12, 2024

The equipment chosen for a job can make a substantial difference in how quickly, efficiently, and economically a field gets seeded and fertilized. The equipment chosen for a job can make a substantial difference in how quickly, efficiently, and economically a field gets seeded and fertilized. Read More

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Real Agriculture

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Manure has been used as fertilizer for a very long time, however with the advent of fewer mixed farms and access to commercial fertilizer, which is easier to transport and often easier to apply, nearly all farmers have moved away from using manure as the primary source of fertilizer on their operations.

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Real Agriculture

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Maritime Employers Association served its employees with a lockout notice, effective November 5th, 8 am Pacific, after the International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 514 served its own 72-hour strike notice late last week. The last contract between the employers and union members expired in March 2023.

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Real Agriculture

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Once nitrogen fertilizer lands on or in soil it may be at risk of loss — through leaching, volatilization, or denitrification. Management choices can minimize losses, through split-application, deep banding, or choice of product, but adding an enhanced efficiency fertilizer product can guard against loss, too.

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Real Agriculture

DECEMBER 19, 2023

The application of sulphur fertilizer involves a key question: when does the crop need the sulphur? Read More The application of sulphur fertilizer involves a key question: when does the crop need the sulphur? Read More The application of sulphur fertilizer involves a key question: when does the crop need the sulphur?

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Real Agriculture

MARCH 3, 2025

With a single cab-mounted camera, Case IH SenseApply offers adjust-on-the-fly variable rate application of herbicide, fungicide, and fertilizer.

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Agricultural Biodiversity

OCTOBER 9, 2023

The input reduction principle of agroecology is wrong when it comes to mineral fertilizer use in sub-Saharan Africa. Drivers and stressors of resilience to food insecurity: evidence from 35 countries. …but that doesn’t mean agroecology is wrong. So, diversify your mind?

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