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Wheat Pete’s Word, Jan 8: Cool technologies, top 10 of 2024, and herbicide residue risks

Real Agriculture

New technology is top of mind in this weeks episode of Wheat Petes Word, hosted by Peter Wheat Pete Johnson.

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Green Lightning aims to pull N fertilizer out of thin air

Real Agriculture

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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RealAg Radio: Fertilizer pricing, harvest automation, and using AI for agronomy, Nov 18, 2024

Real Agriculture

Host Shaun Haney is joined by: Josh Linville with StoneX on the fertilizer markets; Charles Baron with FBN on using AI for agronomy; Bergen Nelson with John Deere on harvesting technology to ease pressure on the operator; and, Hear a spotlight interview with… Read More Thanks for tuning in to this Agronomic Monday edition of RealAg Radio.

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Sollio Agriculture opens its fertilizer coating plant at St. Thomas

Real Agriculture

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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Soil School: Putting three sampling and mapping technologies to the test

Real Agriculture

How can farmers diagnose soil fertility issues? On this episode of RealAgriculture’s Soil School, Bernard Tobin visits Southwest Crop Diagnostic Days at the Ridgetown College campus, University of Guelph, to report on three soil testing and mapping technologies — GroundWork, SoilOptix.

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Case IH rolls out SenseApply with sense-and-act variable rate application technology

Real Agriculture

With a single cab-mounted camera, Case IH SenseApply offers adjust-on-the-fly variable rate application of herbicide, fungicide, and fertilizer.

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Think 4Rs and strip trials when managing forage nutrient needs

Real Agriculture

Growers can best maintain fertility in forage fields to produce optimum grass and hay crops with a little help from the 4Rs of nutrient management, says Nutrien Premium Fertilizer Technologies senior agronomist Lyle Cowell.

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