Real Agriculture

JANUARY 10, 2025

Dynasty, a University of Guelph dark red kidney bean innovation recognized for its high yield, disease resistance and adaptability, has earned the schools 2024 Innovation of the Year. Dr. Peter Pauls, professor in theDepartment of Plant Agricultureat theOntario Agricultural College, developed Dynasty with research technician Tom Smith.

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Real Agriculture

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Knowing your soil is critical to understanding a fields potential and setting realistic yield goals that make economic sense for the 2025 growing season.

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Real Agriculture

OCTOBER 7, 2024

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

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NASDA

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

News Article National Association of State Departments of Agriculture CEO Ted McKinney and NASDA staff recently visited the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to learn how satellite technology supports agricultural monitoring and strengthens the need for agricultural data collection. agriculture and rural communities.

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Real Agriculture

MARCH 28, 2025

Those quick-burrowing, pesky nuisances known as gophers were a source of a good amount of lost canola yield in 2024.

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Real Agriculture

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Those healthy looking soybeans may be hiding a hunger for nitrogen that could deliver higher yields. The oilseed’s nitrogen needs have been much studied over the years with researchers generally agreeing higher rates of nitrogen don’t pay, but that may not be the case when growers push for higher yields. Read More

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Real Agriculture

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

There will be a new biostimulant in the crop production toolbox for row crops in 2025. Syngenta Canada has launched YieldON, liquid foliar biostimulant to help improve productivity in corn, wheat, and other row crops. The company says the product is a unique selection of naturally derived ingredients to improve uptake and transportation of sugars.

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Real Agriculture

JUNE 6, 2024

While many of the senior cabinet positions were left unchanged, there are some significant changes for agriculture. Ontario Premier Doug Ford announced changes to his cabinet late Thursday, June 6, the final day of the spring session in the provincial legislature with MPPs headed home until October. Read More

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Real Agriculture

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

With so many factors going into yields, it can be difficult to know whether farmers are reaching the potential of their wheat seed. It can be even more difficult to figure out how to increase yields and whether those increases can be accomplished through management decisions. Read More

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Agricultural Biodiversity

MARCH 16, 2025

Conventional agriculture increases global warming while decreasing system sustainability. The global warming potential of conventional grain agriculture has increased x8 from 1961-2020, whereas sustainability index has decreased x3. Yield growth patterns of food commodities: Insights and challenges. Whatever are we to do?

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Agricultural Biodiversity

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

Trees, terraces and llamas: Resilient watershed management and sustainable agriculture the Inca way. Yield, growth, and labor demands of growing maize, beans, and squash in monoculture versus the Three Sisters. Another way of recovering traditional knowledge is by reading ancient texts.

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Real Agriculture

JUNE 6, 2024

Soybean yield contest winners typically rely on weekly tissue testing and foliar feeding to help produce eye-popping, trophy-winning yields. But does this tool have the power to make yield for growers who test and feed just a couple of times during the season? Read More

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Real Agriculture

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

The Great Lakes Yield Enhancement Network (YEN) program for winter wheat has expanded from 43 farms in 2021 to 184 farms across Ontario and a growing number of U.S. In four short years, the program has identified key agronomic and management strategies that consistently drive higher yields for YEN grower participants. states in 2024.

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Real Agriculture

JUNE 4, 2024

And what’s the potential yield impact and return on that investment? And what’s the potential yield impact and return on that investment? How do corn hybrids respond to foliar feeding? Those are questions PRIDE Seeds agronomist Stephanie Myslik tackles on this episode of RealAgriculture Corn School.

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Real Agriculture

MAY 24, 2024

There’s plenty of potential but final yield will likely be determined by how the crop deals with the many stresses it could encounter between now and harvest. There’s plenty of potential but final yield will likely be determined by how the crop deals with the many stresses it could encounter between now and harvest.

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Real Agriculture

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Planting winter wheat on time is the most cost effective way to increase winter wheat yields in Ontario. That’s the key message Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs cereals specialist Joanna Follings has for growers as winter wheat planting gets underway in the province.

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Real Agriculture

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Wheat yield is made up of many yield components ranging from thousand kernel weight to head size and kernels per head. But when it comes to driving higher yields, all those components take a back seat to the number of heads per square metre. It’s the big data point emerging from three years of data. Read More

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Real Agriculture

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Anyone that had a piggy bank as a child knows very well that pennies can add up quickly. The same principle works when farmers save pennies over the course of thousands of acres the savings add up.

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Real Agriculture

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Recognizing that both header loss and combine loss contribute to lower yield and volunteer issues for the next season, Read More You can’t manage what you don’t measure, and if you’re not measuring grain loss out the back of the combine, you could be losing two, four and even 10 bushels an acre on the harvest pass.

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Real Agriculture

JULY 10, 2024

Sulphur is a critical nutrient for maximizing yield potential in canola, and since peak sulphur uptake for canola happens later in the growing season than peak nitrogen uptake, applying sulphate as late as early flowering can rescue yield that’s at risk to being lost to a sulphur deficiency. Heavy rains can result in canola not.

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Real Agriculture

MAY 13, 2024

What crops can benefit from inoculants and what kind of yield impact can they have? Read More What crops can benefit from inoculants and what kind of yield impact can they have? XiteBio Technologies U.S.

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Real Agriculture

MAY 28, 2024

So many decisions that influence yield need to be made throughout the growing season, and it begins with the optimal seeding rate. Read More So many decisions that influence yield need to be made throughout the growing season, and it begins with the optimal seeding rate.

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Real Agriculture

JANUARY 29, 2025

An Albertan and an Ontarian fly to The Rock no, its not the start of a hilarious joke, its what really happened this week as RealAgs Shaun Haney and Peter Wheat Pete Johnson both were invited to present to the Newfoundland Federation of Agriculture. Much fun was had (you can check out Wednesdays RealAg Radio Read More

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Real Agriculture

MARCH 24, 2025

Population, seed singulation, avoiding those skips and doubles, and getting the seed in the ground in the proper planting window are all key to optimizing corn yield, but if the planter is not properly tuned for uniform emergence, corn yield can take a big hit.

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Real Agriculture

JANUARY 12, 2024

Department of Agriculture added to the bearish tone in grain markets with larger-than-expected yield, production and stocks estimates in a series of reports published on Friday. Both the headline corn and soybean yield numbers for 2023 were higher than all trade estimates prior to the report, with corn yield pegged at a record.

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Real Agriculture

APRIL 4, 2024

Research from Purdue University agronomy professor Shaun Casteel indicates that early sulphur applications broadcast pre-plant or right at planting can deliver a soybean yield bump in specific conditions.

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Real Agriculture

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

achieved the highest wheat yield in the 2023 Great Lakes Yield Enhancement Network (YEN) competition. Winning the highest per cent of yield potential was Mark Davis, of Napanee, Ont., per cent of potential yield. Hitting a whopping 173.4 bushels, Jeff Cook of London, Ont., with an achievement of 117.6 Read More

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Real Agriculture

JANUARY 17, 2024

There’s never going to be a one-size-fits all recipe for top wheat yields — too much depends on fertility, soil conditions, and weather. Read More There’s never going to be a one-size-fits all recipe for top wheat yields — too much depends on fertility, soil conditions, and weather. Read More

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Real Agriculture

DECEMBER 17, 2024

The crops do have serious challenges, however, including aggressive root rots and diseases that can decimate yields, especially in wetter years. The crops do have serious challenges, however, including aggressive root rots and diseases that can decimate yields, especially in wetter years. To unpack Read More

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Real Agriculture

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Its a management philosophy that more growers are adopting as they look for ways to reduce crop stress and chase higher winter wheat yields. Its a management philosophy that more growers are adopting as they look for ways to reduce crop stress and chase higher winter wheat yields. But Oklahoma State University professor Dr.

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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.

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Real Agriculture

MARCH 17, 2025

Many Ontario farmers experienced the yield robber in their fields for the first time in 2024 and the disease is Read More Tar spot was first confirmed in Ontario at Ridgetown in the southwest corner of the province in 2020. Since then, the corn leaf disease has spread across Ontario, pushing east past Toronto and into Quebec.

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Real Agriculture

JANUARY 21, 2025

Harvesting pulse crops that are low to the ground, whether through lodging or because of a dry season, can lead to shatter losses, reducing yield, grain quality and complicating harvest.

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Real Agriculture

JANUARY 22, 2025

This week is all about bone-chilling cold in Ontario and many parts of Western Canada, but does that mean fall seeded crops are in trouble? It depends.

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Real Agriculture

JANUARY 25, 2025

On todays show, host Shaun Haney is joined by: Patti Durand on her new book on succession planning from the perspective of the younger generation; Clint Jurke with BASF in a Canola School episode on yield targets to maximize crop profitability; and, Hear a clip from Read More Thanks for tuning in to RealAg on the Weekend!

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Real Agriculture

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

The Great Lakes Yield Enhancement Network (YEN) program for winter wheat has expanded from 43 farms in 2021 to 184 farms across Ontario and a growing number of U.S. In four short years, the program has identified key agronomic and management strategies that consistently drive higher yields for YEN grower participants. states in 2024.

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Real Agriculture

JULY 22, 2024

When that happens, any seeds that would have been fertilized during the very hot temps fail to form, dragging down eventual yield. When that happens, any seeds that would have been fertilized during the very hot temps fail to form, dragging down eventual yield. As Justin Nanninga, from Neeralandia, Alta., Read More

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