Satellites are helping us understand and predict what happens in the field, Ontario’s ag minister is defending cuts to the province’s ag budget and farm groups pushing for better rail service aren’t very happy with what’s in the long-awaited transportation act review. It’s also Canadian Agriculture Literacy Week, with Agriculture in the Classroom delivering programming to… Read More
Category: This Week on RealAg
We’re seeing an early spring in many areas…what does it mean for winter wheat? The Chinese government looks to be putting up an obstacle to Canadian canola exports, and seed is going to be a major factor in determining how many pulse acres get planted on the prairies. As well, federal ag minister Lawrence MacAulay… Read More
It’s been a week of two weather extremes, with parts of the east getting record snowfall this week and a whole lot of brown in the west. We’ve learned people really, really like model farms, as we heard from the pair behind the world’s largest toy farm at the National Farm Machinery Show in Louisville, and a Saskatchewan… Read More
From Louisville, Kentucky to Winnipeg, Manitoba, we were on the road again this week (so yes, TWORA is a day late.) We look back on CropConnect ’16 in Winterpeg, find out what separates the top 25 percent of farmers versus the bottom 25 percent in terms of financial success, as well as what farmers on the prairies can… Read More
The proposed sale of Syngenta, new StatsCan stocks estimates, the signing of the TPP, the launch of Xtend soybeans — here’s a trip through this week’s Canadian ag news with Kelvin Heppner: Poll: Do you look forward to driverless tractors? Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify | RSS | All Podcasts
It’s the week of FarmTech in Edmonton. We head to the Northlands to hear some highlights from Debra Murphy, as well as to KAP’s meeting in Winnipeg for a panel of farm leaders from the Canadian Federation of Agriculture and prairie general farm groups discussing the need to “maintain social license” — here’s this week’s… Read More
We’re talking about everything from the state of the US and Canadian economies to SaskCanola’s effort to share how many farmers view modern ag technology through the “License to Farm” film. After spending most of the week at Ag Days in Brandon, Kelvin Heppner host of this week’s news podcast and is joined by a… Read More
It’s the year of pulses in more ways than one. We’re covering all the Crop Week and CropSphere events in Saskatoon this week, including the buzz about lentils and peas, the unveiling of Versatile’s retro look and the premiere of a short film on maintaining ag’s social license. A new report shows greenhouse gas emissions… Read More
Happy New Year! We’re talking about 500 bushel/acre corn, a wheat breeding breakthrough and much more on this week’s news podcast: Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify | RSS | All Podcasts
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
From the reported merger talks between two giants in the ag input industry to limited talks about the proposed farm labour legislation in Alberta, here’s this week’s TWORA podcast, featuring perspectives from John Masswohl, Ian Brodie, Brian Voth, Derek Jamieson and Richard Phillips: Subscribe: iTunes | Android | RSS Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts… Read More
Lynn Jacobson, president of the Alberta Federation of Agriculture, joins us on this week’s TWORA to discuss his views on Bill 6, as we also cover some other noteworthy news stories from the past week: Listen to the TWORA podcast every Thursday! Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify | RSS | All Podcasts
Agribition, Alberta’s proposed farm labour rules, a new atmosphere in Ottawa, a driverless tractor and another farm tragedy — here’s this week’s Canadian ag news wrap-up from Regina: Subscribe: iTunes | Android | RSS Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify | RSS | All Podcasts
Winter has started to arrive in parts of Canada, although many of the long term forecasts are calling for a milder season thanks to El Nino. Federal and provincial governments are talking climate change policy ahead of the big climate conference in Paris, and new workplace legislation has been rolled out for farms and ranches… Read More
From Agri-Trade to Agritechnica, Red Deer to Hanover, farm show season has started. This week’s TWORA podcast takes us to Germany for the world’s largest farm equipment show, along with the latest news highlights: Agri-Trend’s sale to Trimble, All-Tech acquiring Masterfeeds, the launch of the “International Year of Pulses” and more: Subscribe: iTunes | Android… Read More