Real Agriculture

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

A high-quality wheat crop starts before the seed is even planted by choosing the best seed lot possible. A seed with excellent germination, strong vigour, and freedom from and protection against key pathogens is more likely to achieve strong emergence and a healthy plant establishment.

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Real Agriculture

JANUARY 14, 2025

Seeding multiple species in a field can do some fantastic things for the land, such as enhance water holding capacity, improve soil biodiversity, provide added resistance to pests and disease, and improve Read More

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Real Agriculture

MARCH 13, 2025

The Canadian Canola Growers Association is sounding the alarm over the fallout of Chinas tariffs on Canadian canola.The 100 per cent tariff on canola meal and canola oil (but not seed) was announced late last week and is set to take effect March 20, 2025.

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Real Agriculture

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Seed corn harvest in southern Ontario typically gets underway in early September. It’s all about protecting seed quality, says PRIDE Seeds field production manager Mike Bechard. Read More Seed corn harvest in southern Ontario typically gets underway in early September. Why so early? Why so early?

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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

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Two years after handing off distribution of its conventional soybean seed portfolio, Syngenta Seeds is making a similar move with its traited NK brand soybeans across Canada. Starting with the 2026 crop season, NK traited soybeans will be distributed by Pitura Seeds in Western Canada and Jackson Seed Service in Eastern Canada.

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Real Agriculture

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Bednar will be bringing its new Directo No seed drill to North America for 2024. Manufactured by family-owned Czech company, the seed drill is designed for direct seeding of various crops into uncultivated soil, stubble fields, catch crops or heavy and rocky soils.

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Agricultural Biodiversity

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

A pragmatic protocol for seed viability monitoring in ex situ plant genebanks. Share a Tiny Space of Your Freezer to Preserve Seed Diversity. Meanwhile, at the other end of the technology continuum… Applications of dry chain technology to maintain high seed viability in tropical climates. Is it certified, though?

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Real Agriculture

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Trait and disease diversification are two items that Bryant Luers of LG Seeds mentions at the National Association of Farm Broadcasters convention in Read More Diversity can mean many things to many people and when it comes to a grower diversifying variety choices, the goal is to mitigate risk, push yields, and maximize profit on every acre.

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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

JANUARY 29, 2025

That advice comes from Limagrain Cereal Seeds team members Zach Thibault, based in Bozeman, Montana, and Troy Gerding from Fargo, North Read More Planting wheat this spring is a good option for farmers across the U.S. Northern Plains who are looking to manage input costs and want a durable crop that can stand up to weather stress.

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Real Agriculture

JUNE 20, 2024

Seeding technology has come a long way in a short time, but the same general principles apply: deliver seed in a uniform rate, at the desired depth with very little seed damage, with good furrow closure and pressure, all while rolling over changing terrain. Figuring out how to achieve all those goals is a daunting. Read More

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Real Agriculture

OCTOBER 25, 2023

PRIDE Seeds is moving away from a sole distribution model and towards an ag retail network model for Western Canada. The move will increase the locations farmers can find PRIDE Seeds’ corn product portfolio. “Our enhanced dealer network will now work, directly and exclusively, with PRIDE Seeds.

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Real Agriculture

AUGUST 28, 2024

The ideal seeding window for fall seeded crops seems to creep up on even the most prepared of farmers. That’s one hot topic in this week’s Wheat Pete’s Word podcast, Read More The ideal seeding window for fall seeded crops seems to creep up on even the most prepared of farmers.

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Real Agriculture

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Todays Agronomic Monday features Peter Wheat Pete Johnson in conversation with host Lyndsey Smith talking about: The value of human interaction Enduring a real winter The many ways to manage lodging Nutrient stratification and tillage talk Plus, hear Sarah Foster of 20/20 Seed Labs and Amber Bell Read More Happy (frozen) Family Day to all who celebrate! (..)

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Real Agriculture

JULY 28, 2023

When it comes to producing seed corn, managing pollination and effectively detasseling the crop are critical steps in maintaining genetic purity and seed quality. To get the job done, seed companies use a combination of technology and old fashioned boots on the ground to remove female tassels to ensure they get the unique hybrids they.

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Real Agriculture

MARCH 24, 2025

On the list: wireworm, cutworms, flea beetles, and slugs, plus we dig in to pre-seeding selection impacts on wheat Read More

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Agricultural Biodiversity

DECEMBER 7, 2023

From the description of the just-released German-Norwegian TV series “Die Saat – Tödliche Macht” (English title: The Seed) on ARD (as translated by Google). The starting and ending point is the “Svalbard Global Seed Vault”, where valuable seeds from all over the world are stored as genetic backup in the event of a disaster.

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Real Agriculture

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Walter Smith would still fall into the category of “young” farmer, but after ten years of running a seed. Read More

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Farmers Weekly

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

Farmers Weekly Diversifying a traditional arable rotation with a wildflower seed business has helped secure a viable future for one tenant farming family, who faced losing their farm to building developments.

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Agricultural Biodiversity

MAY 20, 2024

Eastern and Southern Africa Small-scale Farmers’ Forum (ESAFF) launches SEED GIST , a quarterly repository of seed literature. Hong Kong gets some rice seeds back from the IRRI genebank. No doubt Iraq will get some seeds back from the ICARDA genebank soon. WorldVeg knows all about seed kits, and safety duplication.

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Real Agriculture

MARCH 28, 2025

Some canola fields were devastated, requiring re-seeding, while a cereal field right next to the canola would go untouched, says Dr. James Tansey, provincial insect and vertebrate pest management specialist with the Ministry of Agriculture Read More

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Real Agriculture

JANUARY 22, 2024

Helping farmers prep soil and seed crops in small spring planting windows is the driving force behind a new harrow and seeder combination for Kuhn. Read More Helping farmers prep soil and seed crops in small spring planting windows is the driving force behind a new harrow and seeder combination for Kuhn. Read More

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Agricultural Biodiversity

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

Optimizing the accession-level quantity of seeds to put into storage to minimize seed (gene)bank regeneration or re-collection. = [n vt × 3]+[n d × (y × x)]+ q min if you must know. A pragmatic protocol for seed viability monitoring in ex situ plant genebanks. Formulas are good, but you need some flexibility too. No problem.

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Real Agriculture

JANUARY 29, 2025

The Saskatchewan-based seeding equipment manufacturer plans to open a $10 million 6,000 square-foot expansion to its manufacturing facility at Emerald Park, Sask., The Saskatchewan-based seeding equipment manufacturer plans to open a $10 million 6,000 square-foot expansion to its manufacturing facility at Emerald Park, Sask.,

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Real Agriculture

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

CANTERRA SEEDS’s latest LibertyLink® hybrid, CS4100 LL, is set to launch in 2025. This next-gen hybrid boasts impressive features to help farmers tackle common challenges in the field, says Lorri Keyowski, Director of Sales for CANTERRA SEEDS. CS4100 LL offers enhanced protection against pod shatter, with a 7.3

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Farmers Weekly

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

To add insult to injury, this meant that travelling was not possible, not even for […] The post Farmer Focus: Dampened seed-beds but not spirits appeared first on Farmers Weekly More concerning though, was that the fields we recently drilled did not take the rain well and created a waterlogged mess.

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Real Agriculture

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

CANTERRA SEEDS’s latest LibertyLink® hybrid, CS4100 LL, is set to launch in 2025. This next-gen hybrid boasts impressive features to help farmers tackle common challenges in the field, says Lorri Keyowski, Director of Sales for CANTERRA SEEDS. CS4100 LL offers enhanced protection against pod shatter, with a 7.3 Read More

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Real Agriculture

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Better seed genetics and strong market prices are putting kidney beans on the radar for an increasing number of edible bean growers in Ontario.

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Farmers Weekly

AUGUST 20, 2023

Farmers Weekly A mini seed drill for use behind a quad bike, farm buggy or compact tractor has been introduced by Corvus UTV distributor Boss ORV.

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Real Agriculture

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Central Plains, and Bailey Jenks, regional commercial manager for the Pacific Northwest, both with Limagrain Cereal Seeds (LCS) know all too well. Central Plains, and Bailey Jenks, regional commercial manager for the Pacific Northwest, both with Limagrain Cereal Seeds (LCS) know all too well.

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Farmers Weekly

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Farmers Weekly Cereals and oilseeds, as well as precision-planted crops such as maize, can be established using a choice of seeding units for Kuhn’s latest folding power harrow, the 4.5m See also: Yorkshire farmer […] The post More seeding options on offer for latest Kuhn HR power harrow appeared first on Farmers Weekly

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Real Agriculture

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Heading into a the new year with depressed crop prices, growers will be looking to sharpen their pencils this winter to optimize input investment, including everything from seed and weed control Read More

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Real Agriculture

MARCH 16, 2025

Tough broadleaf weeds will soon have a new archenemy with the launch of Huskie PRE herbicide into the Western Canadian cereal market.

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Real Agriculture

OCTOBER 3, 2023

UAVs, or drones, have evolved past aerial imagery and are quickly becoming a useful tool in the early fly-on of seed into standing crops. Read More UAVs, or drones, have evolved past aerial imagery and are quickly becoming a useful tool in the early fly-on of seed into standing crops.

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Agricultural Biodiversity

JULY 3, 2024

We have established a multilateral system for access and benefit-sharing, which is like the global pool of genetic material and seeds that facilitates the breeding of new varieties of crops, and it has enabled over 6.9 million transfers of plant genetic material, supporting global agricultural research.

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Agricultural Biodiversity

JANUARY 30, 2025

A way to get free seeds from the US government? Yeah probably not. And if so, maybe not for long? Ok, let’s try the Korean government then. A way to find endangered plants in the US. And get the government to protect them, of course. A way to ensure national security ? Why, conserving crop diversity of course.

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