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

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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Tractor Yield Seeding Production 230

Real Agriculture

JUNE 4, 2024

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

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Yield Seeding Fertilizer Production 318

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.

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Yield Crop Fertilizer Seeding 230

Agricultural Biodiversity

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

A pragmatic protocol for seed viability monitoring in ex situ plant genebanks. The EURISCO-EVA Information System, an innovative approach to the data management of multi-site crop evaluation data. Share a Tiny Space of Your Freezer to Preserve Seed Diversity. are essential for sustainable high-yield farming.

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Seeding Yield Technology Farming 197

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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Seeding Yield Production Crop 312

Real Agriculture

APRIL 23, 2024

Intercropping is the practice of growing two or more crops seeded at the same time (in one pass or two) that are then also harvested at the same time. The seeds are separated post-harvest, and the yield can, at times, out yield what each crop would have yielded on its own. But not all 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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Yield Seeding Crop Production 281

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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Yield Seeding Food Agriculture 280

Real Agriculture

JUNE 12, 2024

Ontario winter wheat growers are crossing their fingers and holding their breath as a potential record crop heads into its final weeks of grain fill and approaches harvest. RealAgriculture agronomist Peter Johnson says a key yield indicator he’s been watching is the number of seeds at each spikelete. Read More

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Crop Grain Yield Harvest 283

Real Agriculture

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Developed through RNAi technology, PRIDE Seeds SmartStax Pro rootworm control G9 corn hybrids offers a three-pronged attack for control of this yield robber. Matt Chapple, product development manager with PRIDE Seeds, says this new trait will offer a third mode of. Read More

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Seeding Yield Technology Production 299

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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Yield Fertilizer Seeding Production 270

Agricultural Biodiversity

MAY 12, 2024

Global spatially explicit yield gap time trends reveal regions at risk of future crop yield stagnation. For 8 of 10 major crops, yield gaps have widened steadily from 1975 to 2010 over most areas, and remained static for sugar cane and oil palm. Time to turbo-charge the breeding?

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Yield Seeding Ecology Crop Yield 208

Real Agriculture

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

For this episode, Pete is joined by Dennis Pennington of Michigan State University and Gord Speksnijder YEN participant from Ontario to unpack learnings from the Great Lakes Yield Enhancement Network. On this episode, hear about head counts, seeding dates, Read More

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Yield Seeding Production Crop 190

Real Agriculture

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

There are some problems you just can’t avoid — like ending up with wheat roots in drainage tile after big yields, but every challenge has a solution and it comes down to making hay while the sun shines. No, not actual hay, as we are in the critical harvest period, but if the soil is.

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Yield Seeding Harvest Harvester 292

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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Yield Seeding Production Crop 314

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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Yield Farming Farming Seeding 259

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

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Crop Yield Seeding Grain 257

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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Yield Farming Farming Seeding 201

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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Yield Seeding Crop Forage 297

Real Agriculture

JUNE 30, 2023

Strong plant stands can set a soybean crop up for big yields. But difficult spring conditions can leave soybean seedlings fighting to emerge and unable to contribute to the population levels needed to reach yield expectations. Read More Strong plant stands can set a soybean crop up for big yields. Read More

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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. Read More Planting winter wheat on time is the most cost effective way to increase winter wheat yields in Ontario. “Timely planting is so so critical to optimizing your. .

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Yield Ruralism Food Agriculture 300

Real Agriculture

JUNE 27, 2024

When fungicides are effectively applied to protect soybean plants growers can expect to see more uniform and bigger seed size when the combine rolls through fields at harvest. Read More

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Yield Harvest Harvester Harvesting 246

Real Agriculture

OCTOBER 28, 2024

2024 marked the launch of Pioneer seed brand’s new Z-Series soybeans across North America, the fifth series the company has introduced in its 50 years of soybean breeding. Canadian growers had limited access to the new genetics, which the company promised would deliver agronomic advantages, better disease defence, and higher yields.

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Seeding Yield Production Farming 306

Real Agriculture

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Over the past 20 years, advancements in corn genetics have helped produce an average yield gain of better than two bushels per acre, per year. What does the future hold for further yield advancement and where might genetic improvement take the king of crops? On this episode of the The Sharp Edge, host Bernard Tobin. Read More

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Acre Yield Crop Seeding 317

Agricultural Biodiversity

MARCH 2, 2025

To help us cope with the heavier burden of disease, crops will need to be able to cope better with pests and diseases themselves… Genome-wide association study of cassava brown streak disease resistance in cassava germplasm conserved in South America. …to getting quality seeds into farmers’ fields. .

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Seeding Cultivation Crop Yield 134

Real Agriculture

AUGUST 1, 2023

Understanding each field’s soil is key to maximizing yield potential. On this episode of the RealAgriculture Soil School, host Bernard Tobin catches up with Zettler at Luymes Farms at Moorefield, Read More Understanding each field’s soil is key to maximizing yield potential.

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Real Agriculture

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Cruiser Maxx Vibrance all-in-one, pre-mixed seed treatment will be offered by Syngenta on seed potatoes for the 2024 growing season, the company says. Each spring, growers receive potato seed. Each spring, growers receive potato seed. Read More

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Seeding Yield Production Crop 306

Real Agriculture

JANUARY 17, 2024

That sparked some questions on fall-seeded crop survival, including canola, alfalfa, and wheat, which host Peter ‘Wheat Pete’ Johnson answers. That sparked some questions on fall-seeded crop survival, including canola, alfalfa, and wheat, which host Peter ‘Wheat Pete’ Johnson answers. Read More

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Yield Seeding Crop Production 246

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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Seeding Yield Production Crop 168

Agricultural Biodiversity

JANUARY 27, 2025

Stable AND high-yielding? Chromosome-scale reference genome of an ancient landrace: unveiling the genetic basis of seed weight in the food legume crop pigeonpea ( Cajanus cajan ). Sounds like the hard work has been done. Now for the hard work … A chromosome-scale reference genome of grasspea ( Lathyrus sativus ).

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Cultivation Yield Seeding Food 214

Agricultural Biodiversity

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

There’s a rich oral history of African rice in Maroon communities, but that doesn’t mean either the traditional knowledge or diversity of the crop is safe. The Invisible Tropical Tuber Crop: Edible Aroids (Araceae) Sold as Tajer in the Netherlands. The sedimentary record can be used to recover traditional knowledge too.

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Real Agriculture

MARCH 4, 2024

Corteva Agriscience and the Pioneer seed brand are looking to new Z-Series soybeans to deliver agronomic advantages, better disease defence, and higher yields for North American soybean growers. Canadian growers will have access to limited seed from 20 varieties for planting in 2024 — 50 will be available in the U.S.,

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Seeding Yield Production Crop 257

Real Agriculture

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Can a higher seeding rate make up the yield difference for planting late? Read More Can a higher seeding rate make up the yield difference for planting late? Read More Can a higher seeding rate make up the yield difference for planting late? How important are fall tillers? How important are fall tillers?

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Yield Seeding Food Agriculture 265

Real Agriculture

AUGUST 29, 2024

Like most crops, a strong, high yielding corn crop depends on what nutrients are in the soil. With corn being a such a big, high-yielding plant, this crop is particularly reliant on a high amount of nitrogen, Read More Like most crops, a strong, high yielding corn crop depends on what nutrients are in the soil.

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Fertilizer Yield Crop Seeding 244

Real Agriculture

OCTOBER 2, 2024

As tar spot continues to spread northeast across Ontario’s corn region, growers are looking to build a better defence against the yield-robbing leaf disease. Crop genetics and fungicide will likely be the one-two punch growers use to control the disease, which is characterized by tar-like speckling on the upper surface of corn leaves.

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Yield Crop Seeding Production 291

Real Agriculture

AUGUST 21, 2024

There are more than a few seeding, fertilizing, and scouting questions to wade through in this week’s Wheat Pete’s Word podcast, and that’s exactly how host Peter “Wheat Pete” Johnson likes it.

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Fertilizer Yield Seeding Production 260