AgNerds: Rick Taillieu on the $-Saving, Friend-Making, Weather Forecasting...
What does NHL hockey, the weather, German apps and fanny packs have to do with mobile technology? Come, let me show you. In this edition of the always informative but rarely serious AgNerds, Shaun...
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Nothing to Hide? Then Join the Conversation and be Transparent About Technology
Editor’s note: This is Owen Roberts’ Real Talk, Real Action column. Each week, Owen will offer his insight into how farmers and the agricultural industry can participate in the rural- and ag-related...
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Canada Beef Inc Partners with CCMA in search of Canada’s Biggest Country...
Canada Beef Inc (@CanadianBeef) and the Canadian Country Music Association (@CCMAofficial) announced in a “Tweet Release” tonight that they have partnered in search of Canada’s Biggest Country Music...
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The Futility of Demanding Respect
I recently watched a movie about two journalists who wrote for competing papers during the holiday season. As it was long before social media, the journalists received handwritten letters of thanks or...
View ArticleFarmers Adopting Technology Rapidly To Remain Competitive
For many years people thought of farmers as being less intelligent than the general population. How many times did we see the picture of the farmer with the straw hat and dirty overalls, such poor...
View ArticleHow Social Media is Extending Extension
Just a few years ago, Dave Hooker, professor at University of Guelph-Ridgetown Campus, started a Twitter account as @CropDoc2. Like many, however, it sort of was just there and he didn’t do much with...
View ArticleThis Week on RealAg — The January 10th Edition
While many of us industry types were getting back into routine this week, the bad weather hangover in Ontario was still raging. Our own Shaun Haney got hung up in Las Vegas while trying to get to the...
View ArticleAg Literacy Starts in the Home Room
It’s March and I can almost taste spring. Certainly the thermometer around here isn’t part of that – but the slightly longer days and that first day of spring marked on the calendar for later this...
View ArticleBorlaug 100: What Will Your Agriculture Legacy Be?
100 years ago, Norman Borlaug was born. An American scientist and researcher, Borlaug won the Noble Peace Prize in 1970 for his lifetime of work aimed at feeding the hungry through advancements in...
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Apps for the Field: A Quick List of New and Notable Apps
New apps aimed specifically at farmers are launched every month. From the very simple, to the GPS-reference, cloud-shared, multi-user type, the number of made-for-agriculture apps grows each month. If...
View ArticleApps for the Barn: A List of New or Notable Livestock Apps
Apps continue to grow and evolve in all aspects of agriculture, with crop commodities eons ahead of their livestock counterparts. Discussions are no longer bound by the confines of a physical...
View ArticleThe Launch of MyNewHolland.com – A New Global Virtual Online Community
This week New Holland launched a global customer community platform to provide collaboration, discussions and offer premium services. The new site is MyNewHolland.com, and is now live. Setting up an...
View ArticleThe Corporation Conundrum: Why Consumers Hate Monsanto, But Love Their iPhones
On a warm evening last summer, I sat around a backyard barbeque with a number of people my wife works with. This group tends to be quite removed from the farm, naturally because many of them were...
View ArticleFCC Launches Social Media Campaign to Get Injured Farmers #BackToAg
Farm Credit Canada, along with the Rick Hansen Foundation and Canadian Agricultural Safety Association (CASA), have launched #BackToAg – a social media campaign to help raise money for a new program...
View ArticleA Growing Season in 11 Minutes: The Schultz’ Family Farm’s 2014 Growing Season
What do you get when you combine footage from a GoPro, UAV, time-lapse camera, smartphone, with film editing software and a fantastic soundtrack? You get the video below — an entire growing season,...
View ArticleCelebrating a Year of #farm365
At 2:03am, January 1st, 2015, Andrew Campbell tweeted a photo of a newborn calf on his family’s dairy farm in southwestern Ontario, kicking off a year of highs and lows posting farm photos on social...
View ArticleStaking a claim for ag in the social media jungle
Marketing and farming go hand in hand, says UK communications specialist Simon Haley. In a swing through Ontario that starts later this week, he’ll be urging farmers to use their intrinsic marketing...
View ArticleMastitis TV: Dairy farmers, researchers turning to social media for knowledge...
When it comes to connecting with other farmers and researchers, there’s no substitute for being there. Just consider attendance at events such as Crop Connect in Manitoba or Canada’s Outdoor Farm Show...
View ArticleKnowledge alone does not bring us to a common understanding
We all like to believe we are independent thinkers, but the beliefs of most people often align with one team or another. Tamar Haspel does not have a team. She is a columnist for the Washington Post...
View Article‘Be a good witness’: RCMP discusses rural crime and new safety network
During TechTourLIVE this year, the audience got a special treat when the tour stopped at Regina, Sask. RCMP Supt. Kevin Kunetzki was a featured guest at the event and on RealAg Radio to talk about...
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