July 11, 2025

Critical growing season is ahead for soybeans

Heading into early summer, soybean futures had fallen a long way from their extreme high in 2022. High yields could offset the impact of this smaller U.S. soybean acreage this summer. Read more on prices from this Western ...

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July 11, 2025

Statistics Canada’s seeded acreage report contains interesting details

Statistics Canada’s June 27 seeded acreage report shows farmers planted more durum, lentils, peas and oats this spring while seeding less canola and barley. As usual, it’s the details that are the most interesting. Read mo...

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July 11, 2025

AB research group digs into potato research

The Farming Smarting Association near Lethbridge is in its relative infancy when it comes to potato research. The potato industry is a huge economic driver of both the provincial and national economies, requiring a need fo...

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July 11, 2025

New generation of hybrid rye brings breeding innovation to the field

In this RealAgriculture interview, Piecharka, country manager for KWS Seeds Canada, takes a look at a new fall rye hybrid that's just emerging for his company's research program and the impact of hybridization and breeding...

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July 11, 2025

Canola School: What's in the jug matters for effective formulations

There’s a lot more in a jug of crop protection product than just the active ingredient, and understanding what’s in the mix can have a big impact on performance in the field. In this episode of RealAgriculture's Canola Sch...

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July 11, 2025

Wheat School: Staging the crop & timing the pass to make the most of T3 application

In this episode of RealAgriculture's Wheat School, Amber Bell catches up with Troy Basaraba to walk through management practices for T3 fungicide timing and how to best stage a crop.

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July 11, 2025

Wheat School: Dialing in sprayer speed, spray patterns, & boom height for T3 success

Applying fungicide at the T3 timing is about more than just watching crop staging — sprayer setup, speed, and nozzle direction all play a major role in getting value from the spray pass. In this episode of RealAgriculture'...

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July 11, 2025

Soil School: How tillage impacts water infiltration

On this episode of the RealAgriculture Soil School, Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Agribusiness soil management specialist Jake Munroe looks at the impact tillage practices and crop rotations can have on how wat...

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July 06, 2025

Big global wheat crop expected to pressure prices

There will be plenty of wheat in the world in 2025-26, say analysts. Canada’s spring wheat prospects are vastly improved after large portions of the Prairies received much-needed rainfall. Russian and European harvest esti...

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July 06, 2025

Fungicide spraying season approaches for peas

Fungicide season for pulse crops has arrived. Dennis Lange of Manitoba’s agriculture department says it’s important that producers be able to distinguish between bacterial blight and mycospharaercella when evaluating disea...

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July 06, 2025

Company builds flax plant in SK

Grain Millers is best known for oats. But the company spent “north of $30 million” to build the Delisle flax plant, which is now operational and producing bulk or mini-bulk shipments of flaxseed, said Scott Shiels, grain p...

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July 06, 2025

Canada's counter-tariffs remain a challenge for canola seed imports from the U.S.

As of today, Canadian agriculture has generally avoided the brunt of the tariff escalation with the U.S. going back to early March, but the canola seed market is a notable exception where tariffs remain a challenge, with h...

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July 06, 2025

Pulse School: Spotting & solving nodulation setbacks

In this episode of RealAgriculture's Pulse School, Shane Strydhorst of Pulse Canada and Alberta Pulse Growers joins RealAgriculture’s Amber Bell to dig into why nodulation matters, how to scout for it, and what to do when ...

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