Real Agriculture

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Capacity and flexibility are both important when it comes to choosing an auger that will help speed up moving grain at harvest. The Brandt 1345 B Series U-Trough, featuring a 13-inch U-trough, nearly doubles the capacity of a standard round-tube auger.

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Real Agriculture

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Every now and then expected seasonality offers a surprise for grain growers. For fall of 2024, commodity markets are moving ever so slightly against seasonal trends and are actually edging higher ahead of the coming corn harvest. Read More Every now and then expected seasonality offers a surprise for grain growers.

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Real Agriculture

JULY 25, 2024

Farmers are looking for two things during harvest: efficiency and a clean sample. When time to combine is limited, ground speed increases and minimizing grain loss while maximizing sample quality can make a large difference on a farmer’s bottom line. As Tyson Sanderson of Bushel Plus says in this interview from Ag in Motion, all.

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Real Agriculture

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

On this episode, host Shaun Haney is back from Germany and is joined by RealAgriculture’s in-house agronomist, Peter Johnson, to discuss: Autonomy to help dealing with labour issues; Yields and quality concern in the corn harvest; and, Enough corn for an on-farm grain dryer. We will also hear a. We will also hear a. Read More

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Farmers Weekly

JULY 24, 2023

Farmers Weekly Farmers in southern and eastern England have been rounding up the winter barley harvest, with good specific weights and nitrogen content, although quality is slightly below last year. One consequence of the changeable weather is that grain dryers are being used more this year as moisture contents are higher.

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Farmers Weekly

AUGUST 14, 2023

Farmers Weekly Grain traders are reporting wide variations in grain qualities, with this harvest very much proving the luck of the draw, depending on local conditions. Even so, milling wheat and malting barley have had average to above-average yields this year.

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Real Agriculture

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Farmers also have to stay safe around grain bins. Farmers also have to stay safe around grain bins. Read More Wheat Pete wishes he didn’t have to talk about safety but he has to. More farmers are telling him that they’ve had draw pins stolen. Read More

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Real Agriculture

OCTOBER 18, 2024

High-capacity combines are finding a fit in edible bean fields as growers look to cover more soy, corn, wheat and edible acres with fewer machines, and also take advantage of their gentler grain handling capabilities. On this episode of RealAgriculture’s Edible Bean School, host Bernard Tobin rides along with Fred Van Osch of Van Osch.

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Real Agriculture

MAY 6, 2024

GSI wants to tell farmers everything they need to know about the grain they have in storage. The company is touting its GSI Connect grain dryer app as a mobile-first solution that provides monitoring and remote control of GSI grain dryers to help growers improve quality, minimize risk and save on operational costs. Read More

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Real Agriculture

OCTOBER 16, 2024

In Episode 14 of the Truth About Ag podcast, co-hosts Evan Shout and Kristjan Hebert discuss this year’s challenging harvest, from managing unpredictable weather to empowering the team through cross-training and delegation. Read More

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Real Agriculture

APRIL 25, 2024

New Holland is touting its recent joint venture with Raven industries as an opportunity for grain growers to access grain cart automation that can reduce cart operator stress and also reduce grain spillage.

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Real Agriculture

AUGUST 7, 2023

Not without controversy, applying glyphosate prior to harvesting a crop can help with crop and weed dry-down. If done too early, while the plant is still moving nutrients up into the kernels, a pre-harvest pass can cause glyphosate residues in the resulting grain.

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Real Agriculture

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

When planting a grain crop in the spring and caring for those plants throughout the summer, farmers look forward to the full bins that harvest typically brings. Sometimes, drought, hail or pests get in the way, leading to crop yield potential that isn’t worth taking for grain. This is where having a mixed operation or.

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Farmers Weekly

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Farmers Weekly A switch to grain maize could be the answer for farmers with maize crops still standing because harvest has been hampered by wet ground conditions. This is according to Michael Carpenter, technical director of feed preservation specialist Kelvin Cave.

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Real Agriculture

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Lawrence Seaway shipping corridor is seasonal, and the labour dispute holding up product movement is putting serious stress on Ontario’s agriculture sector during the harvest period. An estimated $20 million per day of grain isn’t moving through the St. Lawrence Seaway after members of UNIFOR went on. Read More

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Real Agriculture

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

In recent years, many corn growers in Ontario have wrestled with gibberella ear rot in the crop and the high levels of deoxynivalenol (DON) levels it can produce in the grain. It’s made for stressful harvest seasons, especially in 2018 when mycotoxins produced by the gibberella fungus in some fields climbed well above safe feeding.

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Farmers Weekly

JULY 18, 2023

Farmers Weekly Winter barley has been coming into grain stores around the South with varying quality levels and moistures due to a stop-start harvest. Oilseed rape is trickling in too, showing good oil content so far.

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Real Agriculture

OCTOBER 18, 2024

High-capacity combines are finding a fit in edible bean fields as growers look to cover more soy, corn, wheat and edible acres with fewer machines, and also take advantage of their gentler grain handling capabilities.

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Real Agriculture

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Corn harvest is finally underway in Ontario, and plenty of optimism abounds when it comes to the yield potential of this crop. There is a concern, however, that the challenges of a wet summer are showing up in deoxynivalenol (DON) levels in the grain. A mycotoxin produced by the gibberella fungus, DON levels over 2. Read More

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Farmers Weekly

AUGUST 20, 2023

Farmers Weekly Spring malting barley crops are showing promising grain quality from the early harvested areas across south and eastern England, although yields are a touch disappointing after such a difficult growing season.

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Real Agriculture

JULY 17, 2024

When a field is ready for harvest, pulling those tonnes off the field quickly can mean achieving the highest yield and highest quality possible. As combine capacity and header widths expand, a new problem has popped up — grain carts and trucks keeping up to the combine. Adding surge capacity to the important task of. Read More

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Real Agriculture

AUGUST 24, 2023

Big things happen in a big world and yet somehow the grain markets are still transfixed by what number the ProFarmer Tour is likely to come out with on Friday regarding corn production estimates for the U.S. Neil Townsend, Grainfox market analyst, says it’s a bit strange to think that Russia can literally bomb infrastructure.

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Western FarmPress

AUGUST 30, 2024

Missouri-Kansas Crop Progress: Corn silage harvest begins, while grain farmers head to field days.

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Real Agriculture

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

The phrase work smarter, not harder is perhaps best applied when you’ve got no other choice — a one-person or two-person farm has no choice but to get creative when it comes to handling grain, the logistics of seeding and harvest, and more. But it’s not just farms with only a few people that benefit. Read More

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Western FarmPress

AUGUST 31, 2023

Take the necessary precautions to ensure you harvest and store grain safely.

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Real Agriculture

OCTOBER 29, 2024

You can’t manage what you don’t measure, and if you’re not measuring grain loss out the back of the combine, you could be losing two, four and even 10 bushels an acre on the harvest pass. Recognizing that both header loss and combine loss contribute to lower yield and volunteer issues for the next season,… Read More

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ATTRA

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

American Farmland Trust (AFT) and Sol Systems announced an agrivoltaic initiative aimed at growing Kernza perennial grain under solar panels at the Eldorado Phase II project in Illinois. AFT will manage relationships with farmers, assist with all aspects of grain cultivation, and locate grain processors and potential end-users.

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Real Agriculture

JUNE 25, 2023

A chain is only as strong as its weakest link, and when that link is part of your grain transport and storage chain at harvest, you’ve got a problem. If just one part of the process is slowing you down, it’s going to slow down your entire operation. To prevent it, look to one of. Read More

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Real Agriculture

AUGUST 23, 2023

We will then hear from: Colin Rosengren on the ins and outs of intercropping; Neil Townsend with GrainFox on grain and oilseed markets; and, Kelvin Heppner with RealAgriculture fills. On today’s show, Lyndsey Smith discusses some agronomic issues including green canola, frost, and swathing. Read More

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Real Agriculture

JULY 26, 2023

Escalation of the Russia-Ukraine war is weighing on farmers’ minds as harvest quickly approaches. Read More Escalation of the Russia-Ukraine war is weighing on farmers’ minds as harvest quickly approaches. It’s pretty new territory for sure, says Ted Seifried of Zaner Ag Hedge, in the video below. The Black Sea.

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Western FarmPress

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Farmwave is a new grain loss monitor that uses artificial intelligence to more accurately monitor harvest loss from your combine.

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Real Agriculture

JULY 10, 2023

Many growers apply a T3 fungicide on winter wheat in Ontario to protect the crop against fusarium head blight and get one step closer to achieving high grain yields. But a strange thing happened on the way to harvest in 2023, as many fields across the province experienced severe leaf tip burn after fungicide application. Read More

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Agwired

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Golden Harvest and GHX are offering new corn hybrids specifically gred for those northern farmers who take pride in their ability to produce corn in a challenging environment every year. In an interview at Farm Progress Show this year, Gray talked about the 14 new Golden Harvest corn hybrids for 2025.

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Western FarmPress

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Corn and soybean yields are trending much lower as farmers go into the home stretch of harvest.

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Western FarmPress

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

Frost-damaged, double-cropped soybeans are generally considered salvageable for grain harvest as long as plants reached the R6 growth stage.

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Farmers Weekly

JULY 21, 2023

Grain price turmoil As barley harvest rumbles on between the […] The post This Week in Farming: Old boys, mixer wagons and grain appeared first on Farmers Weekly Here are five of the biggest topics we’ve tackled in the past seven days that you won’t want to have missed.

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Western FarmPress

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

What’s Cooking in Illinois: Bowls packed with meat, vegetables, grains and more are a great way to get protein and fiber in your diet this harvest season.

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