Agricultural Biodiversity

JANUARY 14, 2025

Genebanks also need nice education films on seed production. And the Dutch are helping. Genebanks should hook up with small- and medium-sized enterprises for nutrition. What, not large ones? Friend-of-the-blog Colin Khoury interviewed on In Defence of Plants podcast. Luxury hotels and restaurants hook up with UNESCO to protect biodiversity.

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Real Agriculture

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

A high-quality wheat crop starts before the seed is even planted by choosing the best seed lot possible. A seed with excellent germination, strong vigour, and freedom from and protection against key pathogens is more likely to achieve strong emergence and a healthy plant establishment.

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Real Agriculture

JANUARY 14, 2025

Seeding multiple species in a field can do some fantastic things for the land, such as enhance water holding capacity, improve soil biodiversity, provide added resistance to pests and disease, and improve Read More

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Food Tank

APRIL 7, 2025

The Mexican government has amended its constitution to prohibit the use of genetically modified (GM) corn seeds. The reform strengthens previous legal action against GM seeds by enshrining the ban in the constitution. The post Mexico Amends Constitution to Prohibit GM Corn Seeds appeared first on Food Tank.

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Real Agriculture

MARCH 24, 2025

Its literally costing me money now to seed canola $200,000 that(we) lost off of our canola, just like that, just due to the tariffs. Read More Its literally costing me money now to seed canola $200,000 that(we) lost off of our canola, just like that, just due to the tariffs.

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Real Agriculture

MAY 28, 2024

So many decisions that influence yield need to be made throughout the growing season, and it begins with the optimal seeding rate. As discussed in this Wheat School episode, seeding rate is a factor in tillering, tiller timing, and head size. The ideal seeding rate can also help with a smoother harvest and to time. Read More

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Western FarmPress

MAY 5, 2025

Report finds seed oil ban would raise feed prices for livestock farmers, while consumers would pay high meat prices.

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Real Agriculture

APRIL 2, 2025

Submitted by Lauren Comin, Seeds Canada and Tyler McCann, CAPI Canadian farmers increasing concerns about whether they will be able to continue to get the new varieties they need is warranted.

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Real Agriculture

OCTOBER 22, 2024

When it comes to choosing soybean varieties how should growers factor seed weight and pod count into their variety selection decisions? That’s a question the Maizex Seeds agronomy team has been looking at in. That’s a question the Maizex Seeds agronomy team has been looking at in. Read More

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Real Agriculture

MARCH 14, 2025

Weather is a central topic in many coffee shop conversations, plays a large role in the success or failure of a crop, and is outside of a wheat growers control. But that doesnt mean farmers cant at least try and out-maneuver Mother Nature.

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Agricultural Biodiversity

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

A pragmatic protocol for seed viability monitoring in ex situ plant genebanks. Share a Tiny Space of Your Freezer to Preserve Seed Diversity. Meanwhile, at the other end of the technology continuum… Applications of dry chain technology to maintain high seed viability in tropical climates. Is it certified, though?

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Real Agriculture

JUNE 26, 2024

Syngenta Seeds North America celebrated the grand re-opening of the Arva Research & Development (R&D) Innovation Centre this week, unveiling $2 million in renovations to the office and lab. The renovations mark the first significant update to the site in 30 years.

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Real Agriculture

MARCH 19, 2024

Wheat seed placed in a furrow across a field spells possibility to a farmer, but to diseases that lurk in the soil, wheat seed is food, not a potential crop. Using untreated wheat seed means that each seed could be vulnerable to seed- and/or soil-borne diseases, explains Shad Milligan, Seedcare technical lead for Syngenta Canada.

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Real Agriculture

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Trait and disease diversification are two items that Bryant Luers of LG Seeds mentions at the National Association of Farm Broadcasters convention in Read More Diversity can mean many things to many people and when it comes to a grower diversifying variety choices, the goal is to mitigate risk, push yields, and maximize profit on every acre.

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Real Agriculture

AUGUST 28, 2024

The ideal seeding window for fall seeded crops seems to creep up on even the most prepared of farmers. That’s one hot topic in this week’s Wheat Pete’s Word podcast, Read More The ideal seeding window for fall seeded crops seems to creep up on even the most prepared of farmers.

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Real Agriculture

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Todays Agronomic Monday features Peter Wheat Pete Johnson in conversation with host Lyndsey Smith talking about: The value of human interaction Enduring a real winter The many ways to manage lodging Nutrient stratification and tillage talk Plus, hear Sarah Foster of 20/20 Seed Labs and Amber Bell Read More Happy (frozen) Family Day to all who celebrate! (..)

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Real Agriculture

MARCH 13, 2025

The Canadian Canola Growers Association is sounding the alarm over the fallout of Chinas tariffs on Canadian canola.The 100 per cent tariff on canola meal and canola oil (but not seed) was announced late last week and is set to take effect March 20, 2025.

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Real Agriculture

MARCH 26, 2024

The Canadian Grain Commission (CGC) has revoked the grain dealer and primary elevator licences for Zeghers Seed Inc., based at Holland, Manitoba. The company, which also operates as Zeghers Canada, is no longer licensed, as of March 25, as it did not meet the requirements of the CGC’s producer payment security program. If the company.

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Real Agriculture

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

which already owns canaryseed processor Bornhorst Seeds Ltd. which already owns canaryseed processor Bornhorst Seeds Ltd. A trio of investors are bringing together several existing crop-handling facilities in Saskatchewan to launch a new pulse and specialty crop company. Harvest Grain Ltd., Harvest Grain Ltd.,

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Agric4profits

JUNE 19, 2025

Seeds and other planting materials are the basic foundation upon which successful crop production is laid. Failure in the choice of correct seeds, seed storage, time of planting, depth of planting, rate of seeding and spacing could all lead to failure in the crop production enterprise.

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Real Agriculture

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Walter Smith would still fall into the category of “young” farmer, but after ten years of running a seed. Read More

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Real Agriculture

JANUARY 6, 2025

When immersed in the world of agriculture where the day-to-day means checking animals, seeding crops, and spending a good amount of time removed from the majority of urban consumers, farmers can sometimes lose sight of how important their work is to the people in larger centres that they feed.

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Real Agriculture

JUNE 20, 2024

Seeding technology has come a long way in a short time, but the same general principles apply: deliver seed in a uniform rate, at the desired depth with very little seed damage, with good furrow closure and pressure, all while rolling over changing terrain. Figuring out how to achieve all those goals is a daunting. Read More

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Real Agriculture

JANUARY 22, 2025

This week is all about bone-chilling cold in Ontario and many parts of Western Canada, but does that mean fall seeded crops are in trouble? It depends.

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Real Agriculture

JULY 3, 2024

’s 17 per cent stake in Canterra Seeds. per Class A share in the Winnipeg, Manitoba-based seed company. United Farmers of Alberta Cooperative Limited (UFA) has acquired all of Ceres Global Ag Corp.’s The share purchase agreement, dated July 2, 2024, is worth C$2,500,000 or approximately C$1.94

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Real Agriculture

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Two years after handing off distribution of its conventional soybean seed portfolio, Syngenta Seeds is making a similar move with its traited NK brand soybeans across Canada. Starting with the 2026 crop season, NK traited soybeans will be distributed by Pitura Seeds in Western Canada and Jackson Seed Service in Eastern Canada.

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Real Agriculture

DECEMBER 18, 2024

last week, Grant Lastiwka of Renovo Seed spoke Read More Over the decades, attitudes, thoughts and ideas within the forage and grazing community have shifted, however the passion that ranchers have for the land and their lifelong commitment to learning have not. last week, Grant Lastiwka of Renovo Seed spoke Read More

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Real Agriculture

JANUARY 29, 2025

The Saskatchewan-based seeding equipment manufacturer plans to open a $10 million 6,000 square-foot expansion to its manufacturing facility at Emerald Park, Sask., The Saskatchewan-based seeding equipment manufacturer plans to open a $10 million 6,000 square-foot expansion to its manufacturing facility at Emerald Park, Sask.,

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Real Agriculture

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Breanne Tidemann of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada on managing herbicide resistant weeds; Bryant Luers with LG Seeds on corn hybrid diversification; Colin Rush with Bourgault on their equipment launches; Hear a clip from a recent Soil… Read More Thanks for tuning in to this Agronomic Monday edition of RealAg Radio.

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Real Agriculture

JANUARY 29, 2025

That advice comes from Limagrain Cereal Seeds team members Zach Thibault, based in Bozeman, Montana, and Troy Gerding from Fargo, North Read More Planting wheat this spring is a good option for farmers across the U.S. Northern Plains who are looking to manage input costs and want a durable crop that can stand up to weather stress.

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Real Agriculture

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Better seed genetics and strong market prices are putting kidney beans on the radar for an increasing number of edible bean growers in Ontario.

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Agricultural Biodiversity

JUNE 17, 2025

Anyway, seems like the IFOAM Seeds Platform might be able to help. And genebanks too of course, like the Millennium Seed Bank. May need to bring back agricultural practices too, like in Peru. Meanwhile, in India, farmers are trying to grow apples in new places. Which also include climate-proof protected areas.

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Real Agriculture

MARCH 28, 2025

Some canola fields were devastated, requiring re-seeding, while a cereal field right next to the canola would go untouched, says Dr. James Tansey, provincial insect and vertebrate pest management specialist with the Ministry of Agriculture Read More

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Agricultural Biodiversity

JANUARY 30, 2025

A way to get free seeds from the US government? Yeah probably not. And if so, maybe not for long? Ok, let’s try the Korean government then. A way to find endangered plants in the US. And get the government to protect them, of course. A way to ensure national security ? Why, conserving crop diversity of course.

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Real Agriculture

MARCH 24, 2025

Population, seed singulation, avoiding those skips and doubles, and getting the seed in the ground in the proper planting window are all key to optimizing corn yield, but if the planter is not properly tuned for uniform emergence, corn yield can take a big hit.

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Agric4profits

JUNE 19, 2025

The type of germination exhibited by the seeds (seed emergence) of a species influences their ability to emerge from great depths. Seeds with epigeal germination have to push their cotyledons to the surfaced and therefore have limited ability to emerge from great depths.

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Agricultural Biodiversity

JULY 8, 2025

The dynamics of crop diversity and seed use in the context of recurrent climate shocks and poverty: Seasonal panel data evidence from rural Uganda. Agroforestry and diverse landscapes are best for pest control, but cultivar mixtures are worth a try too. Wonder what they will do for cereal self-sufficiency in Africa.

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