Year: 2024

While corn has been grown for over 9,000 years, equipment, processes and even the geography that it is grown in has changed. One of the evolving markets when it comes to growing this nutritious grass plant is in conjunction with cover crops. Cover crops and corn is not a new idea — Indigenous peoples grew… Read More

John Buhler, the visionary farm equipment entrepreneur who founded Buhler Industries—makers of Versatile tractors and Farm King equipment—passed away on Dec. 21. Buhler, 91, had experienced a stroke in the last few weeks, according to reporting by CBC. He originally acquired Standard Gas Engine Works in Morden, Manitoba in 1969, and renamed it Farm King… Read More

Picking rocks from fields has been required back-breaking work since fields have been cleared for farming. The practice protects expensive equipment from being damaged, increases seed to soil contact, and creates smoother fields. Todd Hofmann of Schulte says that he is thankful that the days of hand-picking are long past as he discusses the Spartan… Read More

Thanks for tuning in to RealAg on the Weekend! On this show, host Shaun Haney discusses the mayhem in Ottawa this past week. Haney is then joined by: Aaron Goertzen with BMO on some of the key trends impacting agriculture in 2025; Hear a clip from the latest Mind Your Farm Business with Eugene Ng… Read More

Thanks for tuning in to this Friday edition of RealAg Radio! Hear the Beef Market Update with Anne Wasko of the Gateway Livestock Exchange. Host Shaun Haney is then joined by Kelvin Heppner and Lyndsey Smith, both of RealAgriculture, and Tyler McCann with Canadian Agri-Food Policy Institute (CAPI) for the RealAg Issues Panel! They discuss… Read More

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau named eight new ministers to cabinet on Friday, December 20, a cabinet shuffle spurred by the resignation of Finance Minister and Deputy Prime Minister, Chrystia Freeland, on Monday. Trudeau not only had to account for the departure of Freeland, but also the recent departures of Sean Fraser and Randy Boissonnault, and… 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. Central Plains, and Bailey Jenks, regional commercial manager for the Pacific Northwest, both with Limagrain Cereal Seeds (LCS), know all too well. Dall explains that the CoAXium wheat production system offers farmers… Read More

2024 will go down as a year of market demand that was stronger than could have ever been anticipated. This exceptional demand helped to drive the smaller supply of beef to reach record prices. In this last episode of the Beef Market Update for 2024, Anne Wasko of Gateway Livestock Exchange reflects on the past… Read More

A functional and productive space to get work done and spend quality time with family is how Jordy Stolk of Stolk Farms at Purple Springs, Alberta, describes what his family wanted to accomplish when they started building their farm shop in 2021. The farm, which produces potatoes and rotational grain crops, was established in 1979… Read More

Every field has a test plot. That’s the modus operandi at McBlain Farms. Tyler McBlain’s grandfather started no-tilling back in the 1980s and was a huge proponent of on-farm testing to determine what agronomic practices work best on the farm and its unique mix of heavy clay and lighter soils. Over the years, the farm,… Read More