Real Agriculture

MARCH 24, 2025

Population, seed singulation, avoiding those skips and doubles, and getting the seed in the ground in the proper planting window are all key to optimizing corn yield, but if the planter is not properly tuned for uniform emergence, corn yield can take a big hit.

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Real Agriculture

JUNE 4, 2024

And what’s the potential yield impact and return on that investment? Those are questions PRIDE Seeds agronomist Stephanie Myslik tackles on this episode of RealAgriculture Corn School. And what’s the potential yield impact and return on that investment? How do corn hybrids respond to foliar feeding?

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Real Agriculture

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Developed through RNAi technology, PRIDE Seeds SmartStax Pro rootworm control G9 corn hybrids offers a three-pronged attack for control of this yield robber. Matt Chapple, product development manager with PRIDE Seeds, says this new trait will offer a third mode of. Read More

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Real Agriculture

OCTOBER 22, 2024

When it comes to choosing soybean varieties how should growers factor seed weight and pod count into their variety selection decisions? That’s a question the Maizex Seeds agronomy team has been looking at in. That’s a question the Maizex Seeds agronomy team has been looking at in. Read More

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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. Greg Bartley, Read More

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Real Agriculture

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

With so many factors going into yields, it can be difficult to know whether farmers are reaching the potential of their wheat seed. It can be even more difficult to figure out how to increase yields and whether those increases can be accomplished through management decisions. Read More

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Real Agriculture

JULY 22, 2024

When that happens, any seeds that would have been fertilized during the very hot temps fail to form, dragging down eventual yield. When that happens, any seeds that would have been fertilized during the very hot temps fail to form, dragging down eventual yield. As Justin Nanninga, from Neeralandia, Alta., Read More

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Real Agriculture

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

For this episode, Pete is joined by Dennis Pennington of Michigan State University and Gord Speksnijder YEN participant from Ontario to unpack learnings from the Great Lakes Yield Enhancement Network. On this episode, hear about head counts, seeding dates, Read More

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Real Agriculture

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

There are some problems you just can’t avoid — like ending up with wheat roots in drainage tile after big yields, but every challenge has a solution and it comes down to making hay while the sun shines. No, not actual hay, as we are in the critical harvest period, but if the soil is.

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Real Agriculture

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Wheat yield is made up of many yield components ranging from thousand kernel weight to head size and kernels per head. But when it comes to driving higher yields, all those components take a back seat to the number of heads per square metre. It’s the big data point emerging from three years of data. Read More

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Real Agriculture

JANUARY 16, 2024

Canola is an elastic, amazingly resilient plant, but it starts as a very tiny seed and emerges under threat of certain death by very hungry flea beetles. Setting up this crop for great yield is the typical combination of establishment, nutrition, and crop protection, but in this episode of The Agronomists, we dig in to. Read More

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Real Agriculture

OCTOBER 13, 2024

New on the docket for 2025, CANTERRA SEEDS is excited to share details of the latest canola hybrid, CS3300 TF. RealAgriculture’s Shaun Haney spoke with Courtney Welch, Canola Product Manager at CANTERRA SEEDS, to learn more about CS3300 TF and how this hybrid offers farmers key advantages in terms of yield and versatility, particularly in.

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Real Agriculture

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

The Great Lakes Yield Enhancement Network (YEN) program for winter wheat has expanded from 43 farms in 2021 to 184 farms across Ontario and a growing number of U.S. In four short years, the program has identified key agronomic and management strategies that consistently drive higher yields for YEN grower participants. states in 2024.

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Real Agriculture

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

The Great Lakes Yield Enhancement Network (YEN) program for winter wheat has expanded from 43 farms in 2021 to 184 farms across Ontario and a growing number of U.S. In four short years, the program has identified key agronomic and management strategies that consistently drive higher yields for YEN grower participants. states in 2024.

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Real Agriculture

APRIL 23, 2024

Intercropping is the practice of growing two or more crops seeded at the same time (in one pass or two) that are then also harvested at the same time. The seeds are separated post-harvest, and the yield can, at times, out yield what each crop would have yielded on its own. But not all crops. But not all crops.

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Real Agriculture

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Despite an extremely dry September that played havoc with plant establishment, the winter wheat crop across Ontario appears to be packing plenty of yield potential as it heads into the dormant winter months. RealAgriculture agronomist Peter Wheat Pete Johnson says the crop is not as big as he had hoped estimates peg it between Read More

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Real Agriculture

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Planting winter wheat on time is the most cost effective way to increase winter wheat yields in Ontario. Read More Planting winter wheat on time is the most cost effective way to increase winter wheat yields in Ontario. “Timely planting is so so critical to optimizing your. .

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Real Agriculture

JUNE 27, 2024

When fungicides are effectively applied to protect soybean plants growers can expect to see more uniform and bigger seed size when the combine rolls through fields at harvest. Read More

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Real Agriculture

OCTOBER 28, 2024

2024 marked the launch of Pioneer seed brand’s new Z-Series soybeans across North America, the fifth series the company has introduced in its 50 years of soybean breeding. Canadian growers had limited access to the new genetics, which the company promised would deliver agronomic advantages, better disease defence, and higher yields.

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Real Agriculture

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Cruiser Maxx Vibrance all-in-one, pre-mixed seed treatment will be offered by Syngenta on seed potatoes for the 2024 growing season, the company says. Each spring, growers receive potato seed. Each spring, growers receive potato seed. Read More

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Real Agriculture

AUGUST 1, 2023

Understanding each field’s soil is key to maximizing yield potential. On this episode of the RealAgriculture Soil School, host Bernard Tobin catches up with Zettler at Luymes Farms at Moorefield, Read More Understanding each field’s soil is key to maximizing yield potential.

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Real Agriculture

OCTOBER 22, 2024

When it comes to choosing soybean varieties how should growers factor seed weight and pod count into their variety selection decisions? When it comes to choosing soybean varieties how should growers factor seed weight and pod count into their variety selection decisions?

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Real Agriculture

JUNE 30, 2023

Strong plant stands can set a soybean crop up for big yields. But difficult spring conditions can leave soybean seedlings fighting to emerge and unable to contribute to the population levels needed to reach yield expectations. Read More Strong plant stands can set a soybean crop up for big yields. Read More

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Real Agriculture

MARCH 4, 2024

Corteva Agriscience and the Pioneer seed brand are looking to new Z-Series soybeans to deliver agronomic advantages, better disease defence, and higher yields for North American soybean growers. Canadian growers will have access to limited seed from 20 varieties for planting in 2024 — 50 will be available in the U.S.,

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Real Agriculture

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Bare and sometimes thawed ground has many farmers asking if it’s too early for clover, for frost seeding, for tillage, and for patching in wheat crops. Bare and sometimes thawed ground has many farmers asking if it’s too early for clover, for frost seeding, for tillage, and for patching in wheat crops.

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Real Agriculture

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Can a higher seeding rate make up the yield difference for planting late? Read More Can a higher seeding rate make up the yield difference for planting late? Read More Can a higher seeding rate make up the yield difference for planting late? How important are fall tillers? How important are fall tillers?

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Real Agriculture

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Ever since tar spot leaf disease first hit Ontario corn growers’ radar back in 2019, extension specialists and industry have been working diligently to stay a step ahead of the yield-robbing disease. Read More

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Real Agriculture

JUNE 12, 2024

RealAgriculture agronomist Peter Johnson says a key yield indicator he’s been watching is the number of seeds at each spikelete. Ontario winter wheat growers are crossing their fingers and holding their breath as a potential record crop heads into its final weeks of grain fill and approaches harvest. Read More

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Real Agriculture

AUGUST 21, 2024

There are more than a few seeding, fertilizing, and scouting questions to wade through in this week’s Wheat Pete’s Word podcast, and that’s exactly how host Peter “Wheat Pete” Johnson likes it.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Organic Research and Extension Initiative (OREI) The OREI program awards funds for research conducted on certified organic land to address production, marketing, and socioeconomic constraints on the growth of the organic sector and to elevate the economic and social benefits of organic farming.

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Real Agriculture

MARCH 18, 2024

What’s more, soybeans are proving hardier than first thought, and new research suggests that planting earlier — even before corn or canola — can yield good results. In this episode of the Soybean School, Laura Schmidt, production specialist with the. Read More

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Real Agriculture

JANUARY 17, 2024

That sparked some questions on fall-seeded crop survival, including canola, alfalfa, and wheat, which host Peter ‘Wheat Pete’ Johnson answers. That sparked some questions on fall-seeded crop survival, including canola, alfalfa, and wheat, which host Peter ‘Wheat Pete’ Johnson answers. Read More

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Food Tank

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

In fact, two-thirds of total worldwide crop production is currently made up of just nine species, according to FAO data. After all, crop genetic diversity is “the very foundation of agriculture,” says Nora Castañeda-Álvarez, Project Manager of Seeds for Resilience at The Crop Trust.

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Real Agriculture

AUGUST 21, 2023

On this episode of The Sharp Edge, Jantzi and Maizex Seeds agronomist Henry Prinzen dig into the farm’s weed control strategy, which is designed to deliver high-yielding organic. Read More

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Real Agriculture

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Over the past 20 years, advancements in corn genetics have helped produce an average yield gain of better than two bushels per acre, per year. What does the future hold for further yield advancement and where might genetic improvement take the king of crops? On this episode of the The Sharp Edge, host Bernard Tobin. Read More

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Real Agriculture

OCTOBER 28, 2024

2024 marked the launch of Pioneer seed brand’s new Z-Series soybeans across North America, the fifth series the company has introduced in its 50 years of soybean breeding. Canadian growers had limited access to the new genetics, which the company promised would deliver agronomic advantages, better disease defence, and higher yields.

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Agricultural Biodiversity

JUNE 18, 2024

An integrated assessment of a product label for biodiversity practices in Germany. Labelling agricultural products can support biodiversity conservation, but probably not on its own. Cultivating prosperity in Rwanda: the impact of high-yield biofortified bean seeds on farmers’ yield and income. So why even try?

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