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. Read More

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Real Agriculture

OCTOBER 27, 2024

The Canadian fertilizer industry, a key player in the nation’s agricultural productivity, is no exception. Fertilizers are essential to growing healthy crops, but their production is energy-intensive and. Read More

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Real Agriculture

APRIL 2, 2025

Growers will have access to a new configuration of Case IHs Early Riser planter for crop year 2026. In this interview from Commodity Classic in Denver, Colorado, Case IH planter marketing manager Dave Read More Growers will have access to a new configuration of Case IHs Early Riser planter for crop year 2026.

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Real Agriculture

JANUARY 21, 2025

The Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Agribusiness (OMAFA) is getting ready to update its soil management recommendations for farmers in the province.

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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. There are Read More

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Real Agriculture

MARCH 18, 2025

Making the most of every input dollar matters, especially when crop prices are in the doldrums, but cutting back on fertilizer can end up curtailing yield. Theres a better way to manage those nitrogen input dollars! Theres a better way to manage those nitrogen input dollars!

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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

AUGUST 22, 2024

When farmers set set their sights at higher target yields, one of the limiting factors is often soil fertility. Securing nitrogen fertilizer is costly and dependent on long supply chains. Currently, Read More When farmers set set their sights at higher target yields, one of the limiting factors is often soil fertility.

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Real Agriculture

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

There’s never a shortage of field work to be done in the fall, but fall conditions can sometimes be very unfavourable for tillage, manure, or fertilizer applications. Read More

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Real Agriculture

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Farmers have become quite familiar with the 4Rs of nutrient management — when it comes to fertilizer application they need to consider the right source, rate, time and placement of nutrients.

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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

OCTOBER 17, 2023

When it comes to growing a high yielding crop, nitrogen can be one of most prominent nutrients for crop growth and yield potential. Read More When it comes to growing a high yielding crop, nitrogen can be one of most prominent nutrients for crop growth and yield potential. As Wes Anderson, vice president of. Read More

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Real Agriculture

APRIL 2, 2025

From the theatre stage to the field, host of Wheat Petes Word, Wheat Pete, brings it all this weeksharing lessons in mental and physical health, crop nutrition, soil moisture management, and the all-important when of fertilizer applications.

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Real Agriculture

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Fertilizer production is not only an economic driver in Canada, but it is also a critical resource for customers around the world, especially in the United States. During the rail strike by CN Rail and CPKC in the summer of 2024, one of the majorly concerned stakeholders was U.S.

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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

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

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Managing for nitrogen crop needs is a main driver for achieving top yields. 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.

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Real Agriculture

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

In this report from the Ontario Soil and Crop Improvement Associations MicroSmart Deep Dive meeting in Kingston, Ont., In this report from the Ontario Soil and Crop Improvement Associations MicroSmart Deep Dive meeting in Kingston, Ont., Better together.

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Real Agriculture

MARCH 20, 2025

Six environmental indicators were used as markers of sustainability in the reports carbon footprint, soil organic carbon, fertilizer use, irrigation, pesticide use, and soil erosion. The reports cover Canadian non-durum wheat, durum wheat, barley, and oats. The reports cover Canadian non-durum wheat, durum wheat, barley, and oats.

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Real Agriculture

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The new controlled-release fertilizer production plant is based at St. its Agromart retail partners in Ontario and the Maritimes, and Pursell, a fertilizer technology manufacturer. Sollio Agriculture officially opened CRF Agritech on Monday. Thomas, Ont. Read More

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Real Agriculture

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Demand for nitrogen fertilizer is relatively stable, given the very clear return on pounds applied. have turned wet, further decreasing the amount of fall fieldwork… Read More Demand for nitrogen fertilizer is relatively stable, given the very clear return on pounds applied. In addition, large areas of the U.S.

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Real Agriculture

JANUARY 3, 2024

It’s a hard truth but a good one to remember when hesitating on pricing some crop or booking inputs. Well, as Brian Voth of IntelliFarm explains, farmers can be comfortable paying higher prices for fertilizer to ensure they have it on-farm, but hesitate to lock in a. Read More The market doesn’t care about your feelings.

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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

MARCH 23, 2025

Ontario growers are managing their winter wheat more intensively, starting with fertility followed by improved planting practices and crop protection tools to manage disease, according to OMAFRA Cereals Specialist Joanna Follings. The result is a winter wheat yield hovering around 100 bu/ac for the past three years, and an average 4.6

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Agricultural Biodiversity

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Identification of breadfruit ( Artocarpus altilis ) and South American crops introduced during early settlement of Rapa Nui (Easter Island), as revealed through starch analysis. Early agriculture and crop transitions at Kakapel Rockshelter in the Lake Victoria region of eastern Africa. What, itinerant expert livestock herders too?

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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

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Growers use both practices to manage crop nutrients and understanding the nuances of each method plays a key role in ensuring crops have timely access to nutrients, say Read More Whats the difference between a soil test and tissue testing?

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Real Agriculture

JULY 24, 2023

Agronomic strategies that maximize fertilizer efficiency should be good for a farm’s financial bottom line and the environment, but specific decisions about how fertilizer is applied should be made with the overall outcome in mind, stresses the soil management specialist with Manitoba Agriculture.

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Real Agriculture

AUGUST 23, 2023

As slow-release products and split applications become more common in the pursuit of fertilizer efficiency, it’s important to understand the timing of when a crop needs those nutrients to avoid situations where fertilizer that’s been applied is not available when the plants need it.

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Real Agriculture

MARCH 26, 2024

What’s the right amount for starter fertilizer? What’s the right amount for starter fertilizer? When it comes to phosphorus, having early availability close to the seed is of utmost importance to support early seedling development. Too much phosphorus, too close can also cause seedling toxicity and death.

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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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Real Agriculture

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

When managing fertilizer, the when of application can matter almost as much as the rate, especially when it comes to nitrogen and minimizing losses, says Peter Wheat Pete Johnson.

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Real Agriculture

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Despite an extremely dry September that played havoc with plant establishment, the winter wheat crop across Ontario appears to be packing plenty of yield potential as it heads into the dormant winter months. RealAgriculture agronomist Peter Wheat Pete Johnson says the crop is not as big as he had hoped estimates peg it between Read More

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Real Agriculture

DECEMBER 22, 2023

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. Bednar will be bringing its new Directo No seed drill to North America for 2024. Read More

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Real Agriculture

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Soil fertility is the powerhouse that drives crop yield — and this episode of The Agronomists is an absolute powerhouse of soil fertility knowledge in order to learn more about soil pH. When too high or too low, the pH of soil can create huge issues in nutrient availability, nitrogen fixing capability, and soil microbe.

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Real Agriculture

AUGUST 20, 2024

Integrating pulses into a cropping rotation can be a great way to break pest and disease cycles, improve soil fertility, and diversify farm income while reducing fertilizer costs.

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Real Agriculture

MAY 13, 2024

What crops can benefit from inoculants and what kind of yield impact can they have? sales managers Doug Tigges says the first questions he typically gets from growers include whether an inoculant or biological product is easy to use; how it fits into management of the crops grown on the farm; and. XiteBio Technologies U.S. Read More

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