It’s World Soil Day. December 5, the international day to celebrate soil, was first recommended by the International Union of Soil Sciences in 2002. This year, the theme is ‘Caring for soils: measure, monitor, manage.’ With over 95 per cent of our food coming from the soil and soil supplying 15 of the 18 naturally… Read More
Category: Podcasts
Thanks for tuning in to this Wednesday edition of RealAg Radio. Host Shaun Haney is joined by: Jody Lawrence with Strategic Trading Advisors on where the optimism is in the markets; Senator Rob Black on shining a spotlight on agriculture; Dennis Laycraft with Canadian Cattle Association on the Indonesia free trade agreement and 3NOP registration;… Read More
The Advanced Agricultural Leadership Program (AALP) is for executive leaders in agriculture, but you don’t need to be an executive to join the program, says program administrator Gabrielle Ferguson. Established in 1984, AALP has been helping to develop leaders in agriculture for 40 years. At the Ontario Federation of Agriculture annual general meeting last month,… Read More
Weather is one of the many, but main, factors that determines yield outcomes at harvest. It’s also a factor that is completely beyond a grower’s control. Or is it? While farmers can’t make the rain fall or the sun shine, there are plenty of things that can be done to mitigate the stress that a… Read More
Google and ChatGPT have been giving farmers the answers to many of their agronomy questions for a while now. Artificial intelligence (AI) programs such as ChatGPT use information that is publicly available on the internet to answer questions that are typed into the prompt. The better the prompt, the better answers a person is likely… Read More
Wasn’t that a snowstorm? Well, depending on where you are in Ontario, it was either the most snow in one storm in years, or hardly a flake fell. The onset of winter is the onset of learning season, but it’s always the learning season here on Wheat Pete’s Word. In this week’s podcast, settle in… Read More
When you hear the name Kadylack Farm you may think that Atwood, Ont., farmers Steve Terpstra and his fiancee Dianne De Jong spend their time cruising around in a big automobile. But as it turns out, the farm name is more about family than fancy cars. As Terpstra explains in our latest episode of RealAg… Read More
Thanks for tuning in to this Tuesdays with Lyndsey edition of RealAg Radio! Host Lyndsey Smith is joined by: Eric Olsen with MNP on the hard conversations about farm financials; Drew Spoelstra, president of the Ontario Federation of Agriculture on being re-elected to a second, one-year term; Mike Schreiner leader of the Ontario Green Party… Read More
No two pieces of land are the same. Geringhoff had this in mind when they designed the XtremeFlex Razor (XFR) Draper Head. As Lucas Haas of Geringhoff says in this interview from Agri-Trade at Red Deer, the XFR Draper Head was engineered in Germany with the North American market in mind. The head works on… Read More
Farmers got their first look at new John Deere predictive ground speed automation harvesting technology this fall and they like what they’ve seen, reports Bergen Nelson, Deere’s go-to-market manager for harvesting equipment. Earlier this year, the company rolled out both predictive ground speed automation and harvest settings automation on its model year 2025 S7 combines…. Read More