A valuable tool for managing insect pests, such as flea beetles and grasshoppers, is back in the toolbox for 2025. As reported earlier this month, Health Canada’s Pest Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA) has effectively lifted a two-year ban on spraying insecticides containing lambda-cyhalothrin on crops that could be destined for livestock feed. Lambda-cy products, sold… Read More

Happy Canadian Ag Day! Thanks for tuning in to this Tuesday edition of RealAg Radio. Host Shaun Haney is joined by: Ed Broshinski with Cargill MarketSense on the canola market; Chris Davison with Canola Council of Canada on how the trade threats potentially impact the canola industry; Todd Lewis, vice-president of the Canadian Federation of… Read More

Canadian agriculture leaders are voicing major frustration and concern about the Trump administration’s implementation of 25 per cent tariffs on exports from Canada. In response, the Canadian government has released a list of $30 billion worth of imports from the U.S., including many agricultural goods, that will face retaliatory 25 per cent tariffs starting on… Read More

Manitoba growers will be the first to participate in a canola Yield Enhancement Network (YEN) hosted by the Canola Council of Canada starting this growing season. YENs are peer-to-peer learning groups that use benchmarking as a way to determine what management decisions result in not only the highest overall crop yield, but also achieve the… Read More

Thanks for tuning in to this Agronomic Monday edition of RealAg Radio! Host Lyndsey Smith is joined by: Brunel Sabourin with Antara Ag, and Jason Casselman with the Canola Council of Canada, to discuss the plan for a Canola Yield Enhancement pilot project happening this year in Manitoba; Hear a spotlight interview with Tim Gardner… Read More

Six national crop organizations are distancing themselves from the federal government’s Sustainable Ag Strategy (SAS). RealAgriculture has confirmed the Canadian Canola Growers Association, Canola Council of Canada, Cereals Canada, Grain Growers of Canada, Pulse Canada, and Soy Canada have informed the government of their withdrawal from the SAS advisory committee. The committee, established in late… Read More

Soil sampling is perhaps now easier than ever before, and field sampling can now go much further than it used to in regards to mapping and data. Farmers and agronomists can, through modern soil sampling, learn more about the nutrient profile of soil – but how samples are taken is changing. Generally, soil sampling has… Read More

Thanks for tuning in to this Agronomic Monday edition of RealAg Radio. Host Shaun Haney is joined by: RealAgriculture’s in-house agronomist Peter Johnson to discuss variability in the edible bean crop, seeding winter wheat, and more; Also hear from Jason Casselman with Canola Council of Canada on soil sampling; Sean Prager with the University of… Read More