Real Agriculture

JULY 8, 2024

says there are management lessons learned in wheat that apply to corn production, too. says there are management lessons learned in wheat that apply to corn production, too. Paul Sullivan, of Sullivan Agro near Kinburn, Ont., It all comes down to managing stress at key points in the growing season. Looking to the Great Lakes.

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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. Read More

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Real Agriculture

APRIL 16, 2024

Designing and executing an on-farm field trial can be incredibly valuable for informing changes in production practices, but it’s key that the trial be designed to deliver solid data. There’s no data better suited to a farm than data derived FROM that farm. To tackle what it takes to get the most out of on-farm. Read More

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Real Agriculture

JANUARY 12, 2024

Diversity pays dividends in crop production but researchers, agronomists and farmers really don’t have a good grasp of how and why different crops impact each others in the rotation. University of Guelph crop researcher Dr. Dave Hooker is never shy to champion more diverse rotations.

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Real Agriculture

JULY 19, 2024

When everyone does their job in agriculture, commodity prices go down. It’s how a market works: low supply means higher prices, and with higher prices demand is rationed until prices fall back down. If there was a You Are Here sign for markets, this is it.

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Marketing Production Agriculture Agriculture 263

Real Agriculture

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Lagging productivity, the diving Canadian dollar, precarious U.S. Each of these Read More Lagging productivity, the diving Canadian dollar, precarious U.S. Each of these Read More Lagging productivity, the diving Canadian dollar, precarious U.S. Each of these Read More

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Real Agriculture

APRIL 4, 2024

Drift is the unintentional aerial movement of plant protection products away from the intended target. Several organizations have come together to offer farmers in Ontario support in reducing the risk of off-target pesticide application through the Be Drift Aware campaign. Read More

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Real Agriculture

MARCH 18, 2024

In this episode of the Soybean School, Laura Schmidt, production specialist with the. In this episode of the Soybean School, Laura Schmidt, production specialist with the. Read More Once soybeans are up and out of the ground, the crop can be quite resilient. Read More

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Real Agriculture

DECEMBER 29, 2023

If you’re cleared to fly a drone, spraying product with a drone is easy peasy, right? If you’re cleared to fly a drone, spraying product with a drone is easy peasy, right? Actually, that’s a myth. Actually, that’s a myth. Read More

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Technology Ruralism Production Food 329

Real Agriculture

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

The USDA will roll out its latest production report this coming Monday, and farmers and analysts alike are hoping it provokes some market action to the upside. Read More The USDA will roll out its latest production report this coming Monday, and farmers and analysts alike are hoping it provokes some market action to the upside.

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Real Agriculture

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Kelp has been used by ranchers in coastal areas for decades as a feed additive. This nutrient-dense sea vegetable is a great source of micronutrients and some farmers who feed it also make anecdotal claims, such as reduced incidence of pink eye and healthier cattle.

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Real Agriculture

JULY 10, 2024

While traditional small plot research is imperative for testing new crop varieties, product efficacy, and evaluating individual management practices, there hasn’t always been an easy route to take small. Read More

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Real Agriculture

JULY 15, 2024

Funded projects focus on protecting animal and plant health, strengthening production systems, Read More The Ontario Agri-Food Innovation Alliance, a collaboration between the provincial government, the University of Guelph, and Agricultural Research and Innovation Ontario (ARIO), will use $7.2

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Real Agriculture

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Turns out, it’s not just building organic matter that adds to this dynamic — growing high yielding crops is also key part of nutrient cycling and productive soil. Turns out, it’s not just building organic matter that adds to this dynamic — growing high yielding crops is also key part of nutrient cycling and productive soil.

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Food Politics

OCTOBER 3, 2023

It looks like at least half the products on shelves carry warnings of excessive salt, sugar, saturated fat, or calories, or artificial sweeteners. One of the regulations says that if a product aimed at children requires a warning label, it cannot display cartoon characters. Here’s what I saw.

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Food Processing Production Technology 363

Real Agriculture

APRIL 21, 2024

Everyone in agriculture is focused on productivity and profitability, and so Food Water Wellness. These days, the Canadian Federal Government and multinational food companies are investing hundreds of millions to support BMPs on Canadian farms. Here’s the thing, nobody knows your operation better than you do. Read More

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Real Agriculture

DECEMBER 23, 2024

On this episode, the trio talk about: Current and future uses of spraying technology in farming production; The mysterious but Read More Its the very last episode of The Agronomists for the 2024 season and host Lyndsey Smith is joined by Peter Wheat Pete Johnson and Ray Dowbenko to discuss the top agronomy stories of the year!

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Real Agriculture

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

With a working speed of seven miles per hour, John Deere is touting its new Coulter Chisel (CC) Series tillage implement for its ability to run fast and make farmers more productive. At the Farm Progress Show in Boone, Iowa, RealAgriculture’s Bernard Tobin took a tour of the CC Series with Michael Porter, Deere’s go-to.

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Production Farming Farming Cultivation 275

Real Agriculture

OCTOBER 3, 2024

has acquired the HyTech Production LTd. Bayer CropScience Inc. canola treating and packaging facility located at Coaldale, Alta, effective November 1. “As

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Food Politics

DECEMBER 20, 2023

DO NOT LET YOUR KIDS EAT THESE PRODUCTS! The FDA inspected the plant in Ecuador where cinnamon apple sauce is made; the amounts of lead were shockingly high. It is not required to test products for lead and neither are manufacturers. products too. This also points to the need for strengthening the FDA.

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Real Agriculture

MARCH 25, 2024

This year, the spending mood at the conference was more subdued overall, with the focus shifted away from biological products and on to measuring carbon emissions. This year, the spending mood at the conference was more subdued overall, with the focus shifted away from biological products and on to measuring carbon emissions.

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Real Agriculture

JULY 26, 2024

Product or service claims should be accurate, on that most people would agree. Read More Product or service claims should be accurate, on that most people would agree.

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Agriculture Agriculture Production Farming 261

Real Agriculture

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Leaping off of the second day of the Canadian Agri-Food Policy Institute’s event focused on ag policy and sustainability, RealAg Radio host Shaun Haney tackles benchmarking; environmental, social, and governance (ESG) pressure; and driving change on this episode of the Ag Policy Connection podcast!

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Real Agriculture

MAY 15, 2024

Some farmers want it fine and others prefer a coarse product, but everybody wants dry sawdust, says Pat Liew, business development director of Ecostrat, which markets the cow bedding to farmers across North America. What are dairy farmers looking for when they source sawdust bedding for their cows?

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Real Agriculture

JUNE 19, 2024

High heat, humidity, and direct sun are key to crop production, but can be potentially deadly to farmers and farm workers. High heat, humidity, and direct sun are key to crop production, but can be potentially deadly to farmers and farm workers.

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Food Politics

DECEMBER 6, 2024

This years edition highlights critical challenges, including increased temperatures over land, the ongoing global struggle with food insecurity alongside increasing obesity rates, and the environmental pressures faced by agricultural production. Obesity is rising: More than 25% of adults in the Americas, Europe and Oceania are obese.

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Pesticide Agriculture Agriculture Food 242

Real Agriculture

MAY 13, 2024

sales managers Doug Tigges says the first questions he typically gets from growers include whether an inoculant or biological product is easy to use; how it fits into management of the crops grown on the farm; and. XiteBio Technologies U.S. Read More What crops can benefit from inoculants and what kind of yield impact can they have?

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Yield Crop Technology Production 286

Real Agriculture

DECEMBER 6, 2024

The grain market doldrums arent a demand problem, but a production problem but that production success is cold comfort for farmers looking for a bump in crop prices to reward those extra bushels, says Jody Lawrence, founder of Strategic Trading Advisors. Farmers are and should be very proud of the great work theyve done Read More

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Food Politics

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

The products—meat contaminated with Listeria— killed people who ate them. FSIS [USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service] is concerned that some product may be in consumers’ refrigerators and in retail deli cases. These products should be thrown away or returned to the place of purchase. But this one is especially tragic.

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Food Production 263

Real Agriculture

DECEMBER 20, 2023

The company says that buying Bourgault positions Linamar to increase its market position as it now possesses a full lineup of products in the. Linamar’s existing agricultural brands include harvesting specialist MacDon and tillage and crop nutrition expert Salford. Read More

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Real Agriculture

MAY 17, 2024

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Real Agriculture

AUGUST 30, 2024

The United States is joining Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay as the fourth country in the world to give the green light to production of biotech or genetically modified wheat in the coming years. Department of Agriculture has approved cultivation of Bioceres Crop Solutions’ HB4 drought-tolerant wheat technology, as of August 27, 2024.

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Cultivation Technology Production Crop 261

Real Agriculture

OCTOBER 18, 2024

New Zealand’s government is ramping up its dispute with Canada over market access for dairy products.

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Marketing Production Agriculture Agriculture 303

Food Politics

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Notably, firms also need to properly evaluate their cleaning and sanitation practices, schedules, and procedures before releasing product. EWG sampled 73 products from three popular brands: 58 non-organic, or conventional, baby foods and 15 organic. No pesticides were detected in any of the 15 organic products.

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Real Agriculture

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Maple Leaf Foods has chosen an old, familiar name for the pork production business it plans to spin off as a separate publicly-traded company in 2025. The new, independent pork company will be called Canada Packers Inc. “We are thrilled to launch Canada Packers as the new name for our future independent pork company,” said.

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Food Production Poultry Livestock 292

Real Agriculture

MAY 21, 2024

Up for discussion was sustainable global trade that encourages efficient production practices, as well as focusing on protecting herds from animal diseases, such as foot-and-mouth and lumpy. Read More

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Cattle Production Livestock 283

Real Agriculture

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Sulphur is an essential nutrient required by all crops for optimum production, says Karl Wyant, director of agronomy for. Sulphur is an essential nutrient required by all crops for optimum production, says Karl Wyant, director of agronomy for. Read More

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