Year: 2026

Canada's biofuel industry is at a real crossroads and needs to decide what it will be when it grows up. There are strong advocates for the value stream, but also detractors and a group that seems overtaken by apathy at a time when the sector has so much potential. From farmers to politicians to processors,... Read More

After catching up with co-hosts Kristjan Hebert and Evan Shout on their recent travels and conversations, Saskatchewan’s Minister of Agriculture, David Marit, joins them on this episode of The Truth About Ag. In this episode, Marit reflects on his path from farming near Fife Lake to municipal politics, leadership within the rural municipalities association, and... Read More

There's no doubt farm profitability is really strained heading into the 2026 growing season, with stubborn variable- and fixed-cost structures and weak commodity prices. When margins are constricted, financials get squeezed, and it puts pressure on banking relationships. In January, eighty-two per cent of Canadian farmers surveyed through the Canadian Farmer Sentiment Index told RealAgristudies... Read More

The top political figures responsible for agriculture in Canada and the United States quietly met face-to-face for the first time on Friday (Feb. 20). Canada's Agriculture Minister Heath MacDonald stopped in Washington, DC on his return from the trade mission in Mexico to meet with U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins. The pair have spoken previously,... Read More

Welcome to RealAg Radio with your host Shaun Haney, brought to you by BASF! On today’s show, Haney is joined for conversations with individuals across the biofuels industry, including: Chris Vervaet of Bjornson and Associates and the Canola Council of Canada; David Schick of the Canadian Fuels Association; Dean Roberts of Sask Oilseeds and CCGA;... Read More

On this episode of The Agronomists, host Lyndsey Smith is joined by guests Dr. Anita Dille of Kansas State University and Zaim Ugljic of the University of Wisconsin-Madison to talk about AI and the spray pass! Learn how the economics shake out on targeted spray applications, where the technology is at and evolving, and what... Read More

Better management doesn’t just improve margins — it could reshape how Canada designs farm policy. In this episode of the Ag Policy Connection podcast, Tyler McCann and Elise Bigley of the Canadian Agri-Food Policy Institute sit down with Terry Betker, founder of Backswath Management, to explore a deceptively simple but far-reaching idea: build a national... Read More

Welcome to Agronomic Monday on RealAg Radio with your host Lyndsey Smith! For today’s show, Smith is joined by: Dr. Josh Nasielski and graduate student Lance Javier of the University of Guelph on fine-tuning seeding rates for no-till soybeans; Mike Howell of Nutrien on fertilizer planning, ROI and season 5 of The Dirt podcast; Harmeet... Read More

Soybean cyst nematode (SCN) isn’t just a North American concern — it’s firmly established across Brazil’s soybean belt and remains a major yield robber for growers from Mato Grosso to Rio Grande do Sul. On this episode of the RealAgriculture Soybean School, Wellington Rodrigues, Lallemand Plant Care product manager based in southern Brazil, joins host... Read More

Last week, the U.S. president designated glyphosate-based herbicides and elemental phosphorus as "critical" to national defence and instructed the secretary of agriculture to secure domestic production of these farming inputs. The focus on something as controversial to this administration as glyphosate caught more than a few off guard, as secretary of health and human services,... Read More