New technology is top of mind in this week’s episode of Wheat Pete’s Word, hosted by Peter “Wheat Pete” Johnson.
Between Green Lightning, a plasma technology that essentially is trying to replicate what happens in the atmosphere as lightning strikes to create nitrogen to create N on-farm, and a biological process coming out of Australia using fungi and bacteria to feed nutrients to the roots of plants, there are a lot of cool ideas to talk about in this episode of the Word.
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Listen in for this and so much more as Wheat Pete discusses:
- First episode after the holidays and a lot of cool stuff!
- Coming at you from the Southwest Ag Conference
- There’s still time to register, at least for the Ontario Ag Conference – virtual is an option!
- Huge condolences to a titan of agriculture’s family, Dwight Foster
- Stories from a Japan train station about Australia
- Challenging times all over the place
- Pete remembers to ask the right question when talking to a wheat farmer in Pakistan
- Need to leach salt out of the soil before dealing with other nutrients
- 2024 ties for the warmest year on average in Ontario, but less than average days over 30 degrees C
- Big spread in rainfall though!
- RealAg top 10 videos for 2024 with soybeans way up there! Wheat came in at 8,9 and 10 – goes to show you that soybeans are the bigger crop with the bigger audience
- Farmers love mechanical stuff and shop videos hit number 1 and 2
- Don’t think about going to a coffee shop if you don’t have 200 bushel per acre corn
- Weed control and disease factoring into movement of sugar beet acres
- New safety rules for trucks? Agriculture too?
- Stay tuned for new data on Green Lightning — cool thought process and a cool way to harness nature
- Could the interaction between bacteria and fungi with root systems replace commercial fertilizer?
- No-till soybeans compared to conventional till in Wisconsin getting similar results by just adding N
- Half life of herbicide residues, not as simple as it sounds
- Temperature, moisture and plant growth all impact herbicide carryover
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