Real Agriculture

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Pulses, such as peas, lentils, chickpeas, and faba beans, can be an excellent addition to a crop rotation as they fix their own nitrogen and even leave some for the next crop. The crops do have serious challenges, however, including aggressive root rots and diseases that can decimate yields, especially in wetter years.

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Food Politics

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Deere lays off more workers at Iowa tractor plant The cuts add to the thousands of jobs eliminated this year as the equipment maker reigns in production to offset a slowdown in demand. The post What’s up with all the food production plant closures? Pretty certain: food prices will rise.

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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

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

JANUARY 7, 2025

These forms of soil movement are costly from a soil health, farm productivity, and environmental standpoint, however they are not the largest erosion risk to a field. These forms of soil movement are costly from a soil health, farm productivity, and environmental standpoint, however they are not the largest erosion risk to a field.

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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

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

JANUARY 31, 2025

Farmers need to rethink how they apply crop protection products and theres plenty of novel weed control technology to address cost, labour and environmental stewardship challenges, says Cornell AgriTech weed scientist Dr. Lynn Sosnoskie.

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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

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

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

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

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

JANUARY 24, 2025

Whether its trying to better understand nitrogen loss risk, matching pounds of product to yield potential, anticipating price moves, or evaluating a new product, theres never a shortage of interest in soil fertility topics. There are always certain topics that get people reading, watching, and asking questions. Earlier 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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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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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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Real Agriculture

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Tracks certainly dont eliminate compaction, and they usually cost substantially more than wheels, but research at The Ohio State University shows there are several specific applications where tracks offer a productivity or yield advantage in the old tracks-versus-wheels debate.

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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

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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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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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

JANUARY 17, 2025

Whether you are talking equipment, agronomy, daily management tasks or livestock production, AI is a staple in any discussion. Whether you are talking equipment, agronomy, daily management tasks or livestock production, AI is a staple in any discussion.

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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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Real Agriculture

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Better together. Thats a simple way to describe what happens when micronutrients and biostimulants join forces to alleviate plant stress. In this report from the Ontario Soil and Crop Improvement Associations MicroSmart Deep Dive meeting in Kingston, Ont.,

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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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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

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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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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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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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

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Underpaying employees will result in less productivity, but simply paying people more doesnt motivate employees as much as you might think, says Tom Wall, the Dairy Coach. We have production Read More

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Real Agriculture

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Exports remain critical for food security and maximizing the value of surplus ag production in the U.S., Exports remain critical for food security and maximizing the value of surplus ag production in the U.S., The demise of global trade as politicians push protectionist policies is overstated, says the head of the U.S. Read More

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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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Real Agriculture

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Dall explains that the CoAXium wheat production system offers farmers Read More Effectively controlling grassy weeds in a grass crop is always a challenge, and one that Dan Dall, regional commercial manager for the U.S. Dall explains that the CoAXium wheat production system offers farmers Read More

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