Real Agriculture

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Seed corn harvest in southern Ontario typically gets underway in early September. It’s all about protecting seed quality, says PRIDE Seeds field production manager Mike Bechard. Read More Seed corn harvest in southern Ontario typically gets underway in early September. Why so early? Why so early?

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Real Agriculture

OCTOBER 22, 2024

When it comes to choosing soybean varieties how should growers factor seed weight and pod count into their variety selection decisions? That’s a question the Maizex Seeds agronomy team has been looking at in. That’s a question the Maizex Seeds agronomy team has been looking at in. Read More

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Real Agriculture

JANUARY 22, 2024

Helping farmers prep soil and seed crops in small spring planting windows is the driving force behind a new harrow and seeder combination for Kuhn. Read More Helping farmers prep soil and seed crops in small spring planting windows is the driving force behind a new harrow and seeder combination for Kuhn. Read More

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Real Agriculture

OCTOBER 12, 2023

It’s been a long process, but Canada is nearing a final decision on the use of gene editing in crop development. Krista Thomas, vice president of seed innovation and trade policy with the Canada Grains Council, explains the final assessment — that of feed for livestock — is nearing completion, as the consultation wraps up.

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Real Agriculture

JANUARY 13, 2025

The seeding or planting window is already pressed for time. Manually having to add products into the planter or seed box can slow down progress, but pre-mixing some products, as is the case with some biological products, can decrease efficacy.

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Real Agriculture

OCTOBER 25, 2023

PRIDE Seeds is moving away from a sole distribution model and towards an ag retail network model for Western Canada. The move will increase the locations farmers can find PRIDE Seeds’ corn product portfolio. “Our enhanced dealer network will now work, directly and exclusively, with PRIDE Seeds.

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Real Agriculture

OCTOBER 3, 2023

UAVs, or drones, have evolved past aerial imagery and are quickly becoming a useful tool in the early fly-on of seed into standing crops. Read More UAVs, or drones, have evolved past aerial imagery and are quickly becoming a useful tool in the early fly-on of seed into standing crops.

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Real Agriculture

JULY 26, 2024

Taking the first step in planting cover crops or multi-species forage mixes are no exception and requires some careful analysis before deciding on what’s right. Soil type, soil biology, and rainfall for each farm, as well as goals and expectations of cover crops can. To borrow a phrase, the first step is always the hardest.

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Farmers Weekly

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Farmers Weekly Cereals and oilseeds, as well as precision-planted crops such as maize, can be established using a choice of seeding units for Kuhn’s latest folding power harrow, the 4.5m See also: Yorkshire farmer […] The post More seeding options on offer for latest Kuhn HR power harrow appeared first on Farmers Weekly

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Farmers Weekly

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

Farmers Weekly Diversifying a traditional arable rotation with a wildflower seed business has helped secure a viable future for one tenant farming family, who faced losing their farm to building developments.

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Farmers Weekly

JULY 30, 2023

Farmers Weekly Borage and herbage seed break crops have helped one heavy land Essex arable farm get on top of blackgrass, with double spring-sown breaks and low soil disturbance seen as the key in its grassweed battle.

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Farmers Weekly

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

See also: Natural bioherbicides show promise in […] The post Crop Watch: Wet autumn sees rotting seed and missed sprays appeared first on Farmers Weekly Many of the planned autumn operations have not happened, especially in Scotland. Potato harvesting has halted, and some wheat is yet to receive herbicides.

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Farmers Weekly

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Farmers Weekly With a kind start to October in south Devon, our winter wheat and barley crops went in nicely around the 10th of the month. We’ve gone with a […] The post Farmer Focus: Farm-saved seed wheat blend tailored to farm conditions appeared first on Farmers Weekly

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Real Agriculture

JANUARY 15, 2024

On this episode, host Shaun Haney is joined by RealAgriculture’s in-house agronomist Peter Johnson to discuss how the cold snap can impact winter crops in the ground with a lack of snow, soybean yields, seeding rates, and more. Read More Thanks for tuning into this Agronomic Monday edition of RealAg Radio brought to you by Vaderstad.

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Real Agriculture

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

answers several questions on cover crop management, taking out a hay stand, and starting off winter wheat. answers several questions on cover crop management, taking out a hay stand, and starting off winter wheat. Have a question you’d. Read More Are you ready for an agronomy Q&A? Have a question you’d. Read More

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Agricultural Biodiversity

JULY 3, 2024

We have established a multilateral system for access and benefit-sharing, which is like the global pool of genetic material and seeds that facilitates the breeding of new varieties of crops, and it has enabled over 6.9 million transfers of plant genetic material, supporting global agricultural research.

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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

MAY 30, 2024

Wheat markets have rallied this spring, creating some selling opportunities for both old and new crop amidst the busyness of seeding and planting. Read More Wheat markets have rallied this spring, creating some selling opportunities for both old and new crop amidst the busyness of seeding and planting.

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Real Agriculture

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Which seed makes the most sense to plant first next spring? Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs soybean specialist Horst Bohner says good arguments can be made for planting either crop first. The best solution might be to buy a second planter and start rolling with both crops at the. Soybeans or corn?

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Real Agriculture

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Bare and sometimes thawed ground has many farmers asking if it’s too early for clover, for frost seeding, for tillage, and for patching in wheat crops. Bare and sometimes thawed ground has many farmers asking if it’s too early for clover, for frost seeding, for tillage, and for patching in wheat crops.

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Real Agriculture

JANUARY 16, 2024

Canola is an elastic, amazingly resilient plant, but it starts as a very tiny seed and emerges under threat of certain death by very hungry flea beetles. Setting up this crop for great yield is the typical combination of establishment, nutrition, and crop protection, but in this episode of The Agronomists, we dig in to.

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Real Agriculture

MARCH 6, 2024

Orr will remain based at Corteva’s Canadian head office at Calgary, Alberta, where she will lead the organization as it delivers a pipeline of new seed and crop protection solutions to Canadian farmers in the years ahead. Loralee Orr has been named as Canada Commercial Leader for Corteva Agriscience.

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Farmers Weekly

JULY 28, 2023

Farmers Weekly A small seed hopper, levelling boards and a “traction control” system to improve tractor grip are some of the new options available for Pottinger’s 4m to 6m Terria tine cultivators.

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Real Agriculture

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Corteva Agriscience has launched Straxan fungicide treatment for cereals that provides protection against both seed- and soil-borne diseases. Read More Corteva Agriscience has launched Straxan fungicide treatment for cereals that provides protection against both seed- and soil-borne diseases.

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Civil Eats

APRIL 22, 2024

Its 2,800 acres—the first protected habitat for the wild relatives of crops in the United States—now shelter not just a single pepper but at least 45 different species. Forest Service to identify and collect other wild relatives of crops in this area. In the U.S. Arizona is the third driest state in the U.S.

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Agricultural Biodiversity

AUGUST 21, 2024

The authors of book “ Moving Crops and the Scales of History ” have been awarded the Edelstein Prize 2024 for their work to “redefine historical inquiry based on the “cropscape”: the assemblage of people, places, creatures, technologies, and other elements that form around a crop.”

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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. 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. Is it worth it? Is it worth it? Read More

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Farmers Weekly

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Farmers Weekly After a testing season and difficult harvest, growers are sticking to a narrow range of varieties for the new cropping year. Farmers Weekly finds out what’s filling the drills.

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Food Tank

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

In fact, two-thirds of total worldwide crop production is currently made up of just nine species, according to FAO data. In addition to all the flavorful produce we’re missing out on, this homogenization is a major threat to crop genetic diversity—and poses serious danger to the future of the food supply.

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Real Agriculture

JUNE 30, 2023

Strong plant stands can set a soybean crop up for big yields. Read More Strong plant stands can set a soybean crop up for big yields. Read More Strong plant stands can set a soybean crop up for big yields. In Ontario, typically one to four per cent of the soybean acres fail to establish adequate plant stands and. Read More

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Real Agriculture

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

That’s why a grower’s number one goal should be to use a pre-seed burnoff to limit early herbicide-resistant weed competition on emerging crops, even when conditions are dry. Dry or wet, whatever conditions this coming spring brings, one thing is certain – weeds will be emerging, whether you can see them or not. According to.

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Agricultural Biodiversity

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Do you want to describe and analyze seed systems? Hope they include seed systems. Want to grow perennial crops for the Land Institute? Let the Norwegian University of Life Sciences show you how. Do you think there should be a, well, systemic approach to the food system? So does the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences.

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Farmers Weekly

AUGUST 24, 2023

Farmers Weekly Europe’s first Redekop seed control unit (SCU) fitted to a Fendt Ideal 10T combine, aimed at controlling weed seeds, is being put to the test this harvest in Leicestershire at the Belvoir Farming Company.

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Food Tank

AUGUST 26, 2024

Seeds for Resilience , a project of Crop Trust , is working to strengthen gene banks across sub-Saharan Africa. As these challenges intensify, it becomes increasingly difficult for crops to flourish. Gene banks are crucial in preserving crop diversity in these uncertain times.

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Real Agriculture

OCTOBER 22, 2024

When it comes to choosing soybean varieties how should growers factor seed weight and pod count into their variety selection decisions? When it comes to choosing soybean varieties how should growers factor seed weight and pod count into their variety selection decisions?

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Real Agriculture

AUGUST 13, 2024

There’s lots of research that points to a two-inch depth, but there’s growing evidence that planting corn up to three inches deep is a better choice if the seed can access optimum moisture levels at that depth. On this episode of The Sharp Edge, Maizex Seeds agronomist Henry. Read More

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Real Agriculture

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Brent Derkatch has been named as the new president and CEO of Canterra Seeds. Derkatch has been with CANTERRA SEEDS since 2001, and has served as the director, Pedigreed Seed Business Unit for the past five years. Read More Brent Derkatch has been named as the new president and CEO of Canterra Seeds. Derkatch will.

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