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

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

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

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

APRIL 7, 2025

Planning for the growing season isnt just about seed choices and fertilizer rates penciling in and choosing crop protection products is crucial to protecting yield and quality. That said, just because a product is approved for use doesnt automatically mean farmers have the all-clear to use it, depending on the crops destination.

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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

APRIL 2, 2025

Growers will have access to a new configuration of Case IHs Early Riser planter for crop year 2026. The planter will be the 10th configuration of the Early Riser and feature a 90-foot wide frame, 24-rows, and 22-inch row spacing.

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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

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Choosing the right protection product for nitrogen fertilizer comes down to hedging against the most likely risk of loss. Enhanced efficiency nitrogen fertilizers, sometimes referred to as EEFs or EENFs, work well to protect against nitrogen losses, but they don’t all work in the same way or in the same situation.

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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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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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Real Agriculture

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

When it comes to fertilizer a lot of things are changing — not just prices. last week, fertilizer broadcast spreaders took to the field to showcase how the technology is evolving, where broadcasting fits on the farm and what farmers need to consider when investing. At Canada’s Outdoor Farm Show (COFS), held at Woodstock, Ont.,

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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

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

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

MARCH 19, 2024

Nitrogen fertilizer can be lost through volatilization, leaching, or denitrification depending on conditions. Farmers can adapt application practices and timing to minimize loss, and they can choose to have nitrogen fertilizer treated with an enhanced efficiency product.

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Real Agriculture

JANUARY 23, 2024

The nitrogen fertilizer market is expected to remain firm heading into the ’24 planting season thanks to several global supply/demand factors, according to ADM Fertilizer’s Saskatchewan-based urea product line manager.

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Real Agriculture

AUGUST 15, 2024

In the not so distant past, the interconnectivity of supply chain logistics was made all too clear through parts availability shortages, back-ordered equipment, and stranded container traffic.

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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. Salford application equipment product manager Gavin Held notes that the new.

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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

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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Sustainable Food Trust

APRIL 1, 2025

Here, Brodie Crouch, a PhD student at The University of Queensland, unpacks how biodiversity and production win-wins can help livestock graziers to be part of the solution in tackling Australias extinction crisis whilst continuing to produce important nutrition. But its in trouble.

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Civil Eats

MARCH 11, 2025

Growing vast monocultures of potatoes requires synthetic fertilizers whose production requires massive amounts of energy. Another 38 percent comes from retail consumption and waste; and the rest is from industrial inputs (like pesticides and fertilizer) and agriculture production.

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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

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. Read More

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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. However, like most things in the world — there simply can be too much of a good thing, and focusing solely on nitrogen is no different. As Wes Anderson, vice president of.

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Real Agriculture

MARCH 25, 2025

The company has been testing the short stature corn products in test plots for several years and plans to Read More A shorter, smaller, more efficient corn plant that stands better and produces less residue and higher yields: its alot to pack into a short corn plant, but thats the promise of Bayers Preceon Smart Corn System.

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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? Sulphur application might not be a common one, but for both the east and the west, it’s one that requires long-term planning as some products require weathering and microbial breakdown to release the nutrient. Read More

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ATTRA

MARCH 4, 2025

Iowa State University research published in Nature Communications revealed that the amount of nitrogen fertilizer needed to maximize the profitability of corn production in the Midwest has been increasing by about 1.2% per year for the past three decades.

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