Do you know a farm groupie? For many, a big part of being a groupie is rubbing shoulders with a celebrity. Most farmers don’t consider themselves rock stars, but some attract a hoard of loyal, dedicated peeps – even if it’s the last thing they want. Before the digital age and the ubiquitous cell phone,… Read More
It’s been a while since we’ve featured the kings of farm parodies — the Peterson Farm Brothers — here on RealAgriculture. The whole Peterson clan, including mom, makes it into their latest medley, as they reminisce about farming with toy tractors on the kitchen floor while harvesting their 2016 wheat crop. It’s a good one!… Read More
Inspired by Jimmy Kimmel’s Mean Tweets videos where celebrities read less-than-thoughtful messages sent their way on Twitter, some (celebrity) farmers and people involved in the ag industry have produced “Mean Tweets, Farming Edition.” Whether it’s the emotions involved in food or something else, people send some pretty nasty tweets to farmers and people involved in… Read More
“It has to taste fabulous first, and oh by the way, it’s good for you.” That’s the standard we should aim for with food, says best-selling cookbook author and home economist Mairlyn Smith. Smith brought her hilarious cooking demonstration to FarmTech in Edmonton, following up on her latest cookbook that features products grown by Canadian farmers…. Read More
Have we lost the ability to laugh at ourselves? I hope not. To keep sane in a very insane world sometimes you need to just laugh. On February 7, Crave TV will release six full length episodes of Letterkenny, based on the YouTube sensational shorts called Letterkenny Problems, which poke fun at teenage life in rural Ontario. The… Read More
Do you have a neighbour that seems to always have the latest in technology or buys land without ever thinking about ROI, capacity or profitability? A fellow farmer that seems to have every single possible device, monitor, gadget, or piece of precision farming gear? A guy that some mislabel as a “progressive farmer” but they… Read More
Leave it to farmers and the ag community to come up with a good way to spend US$1.3 billion (minus taxes of course, but for Canadians, even more with the exchange rate). With the winning numbers going unclaimed on Sunday, the jackpot in the U.S. PowerBall will be the first to exceed the $1 billion… Read More
A special(?) holiday edition of TWORA: ‘Twas the week before Christmas, and all through the land RealAggies (or Agros?) were thinking about the year we’ve had Not our regular podcast this week, not the same TWORA, We’re looking back on 15 — officially, the year of our soil So as the stockings are hung by… Read More
Don’t forget to change your clocks this weekend! Fall back…back one hour..or go to a place where daylight savings doesn’t exist. They call it Saskatchewan. Get the latest Canadian ag news delivered via email by subscribing here!
It was our hope to have a parody out by the middle of August, as a fun kick-off to harvest. But, thanks to slow internet speeds and self-conscious/perfectionist/completely amateur singers/musicians, our version of Leaving on a Jet Plane will be a late show to the game. Here’s hoping this melancholic hybrid helps you get through a harvest that has… Read More
Set it and forget it — if you’ve got your rate controller set on the sprayer, you can rest assured that each nozzle is spraying the correct volume, right? Actually, that’s a myth. The dynamic duo of Sprayers101.com, Tom Wolf, of AgriMetrix, and Jason Deveau, of OMAFRA, have teamed up with RealAgriculture to bring you… Read More
Remember back in high school when you chased the really good looking girl in class? In your mind you couldn’t see anything other than being in a relationship with her. She occupied your thoughts and dreams 24/7. But, she was not interested in the least. After asking your dreamy date to the school dance or a movie over and over… Read More
Dry conditions back home were the subject of many conversations involving prairie farmers who made the trek to Regina last month for Canada’s Farm Progress Show. RealAg’s roving reporter Kelvin Heppner took to the show grounds with a camera to ask farmers how their crops were looking and their highlights from the massive equipment showcase…. Read More
There’s something distinctly different about this week’s news update…and it likely has something to do with Kelvin Heppner not hosting it. RealAgriculture editor and resident fast-talker, Lyndsey Smith, fills in for our usual broadcaster this week, and is joined by Debra Murphy to talk what’s top of mind this week. What do they talk about?… Read More
The Peterson Farm Bros might be American, but their latest effort gives a decisive nod to their northern neighbours with this Bachman Turner Overdrive parody, “Takin’ Care of Livestock.” All three brothers are joined by their sister in this livestock feeding frenzy, but it’s not just their parents that make a cameo! Farmers, farm kids,… Read More
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