TruFlex canola puts the control back in farmers’ hands

Getting the spray timing right in canola isn’t always easy, particularly when erratic weather leads to uneven crop growth. “Last year, we saw up to four stages of canola in more than one field,” says Liz Simpson, Canola Agronomic Systems Manager with Bayer Canada. “There are a limited number of spray windows for canola, and… Read More

Frost hits a huge swath of the Prairies

As the season changes to fall, the leaves find new colours, football starts, and crops attempt to finish prior to the first hard frost. In a very quick weather change over the last four days, Tuesday morning brought extremely cold temperatures to large parts of the Prairies, from Manitoba, through Saskatchewan, and into Alberta. Night… Read More

RealAg Radio, September 8: Frost (?!), record soybean yields, and an Agronomy M-uesday

It happened across most of western Canada overnight… the F word — frost. Lucky for you, we’re having an Agronomy M-uesday chat here on RealAg Radio, where host Shaun Haney and RealAgriculture’s resident agronomist Peter “Wheat Pete” Johnson take you through several agronomic topics, including frost at harvest, potential record soybean yields in Ontario, and… Read More

Food systems resilience tops agenda at AGRF Summit

Actions to strengthen Africa’s food systems in the aftermath of the Covid-19 crisis underpinned discussions at this year’s African Green Revolution Forum (AGRF). Held in a virtual format for the first time this year due to the ongoing pandemic, the theme of the 2020 Summit was ‘Feed the Cities, Grow the Continent: Leveraging Urban Food Markets to Achieve Sustainable Food Systems in Africa’. The event highlighted how the plight of urban areas has become tangible during the pandemic, as food […]

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