Wheat Pete's Word – RealAgriculture

Mar 05 2025 50 ep. 22 mins 159
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Wheat Pete’s Word, Mar 5: Milestones, ice cover, nutrient interactions, and choosing hybrids

Mar 05 2025 22 mins  
Peter “Wheat Pete” Johnson will always get the Word done, even when he’s on vacation, which is exactly what we’re getting this week as the Wheat Pete’s Word: Costa Rica edition hits the airwaves! In this week’s podcast: A discussion on nitrogen source and yield potential, the impact of ice on over-wintering crops, sulphur suggestions,… Read More

Wheat Pete’s Word, Feb 26: Manure and microbes, soybeans and water quality, and protecting N from loss

Feb 26 2025 23 mins  
When managing fertilizer, the when of application can matter almost as much as the rate, especially when it comes to nitrogen and minimizing losses, says Peter “Wheat Pete” Johnson. In this episode of Wheat Pete’s Word, Johnson shares insights into preventing nitrogen fertilizer losses, assessing manure’s nutrient release potential and impact on microbial activity, and… R

Wheat Pete’s Word, Feb 19: Wrong decisions, in-furrow boron, a bin check, and testing water

Feb 19 2025 23 mins  
There are plenty of decisions to make ahead of seeding and planting, and sometimes those decisions revolve around what goes down with the seed. For this week’s episode of Wheat Pete’s Word, Peter Johnson talks boron for canola, AMS vs. gypsum, and starter-fertilizer decisions with dry soil and seedbed utilization in mind. Also in this… Read More

Wheat Pete’s Word, Feb 12: Celebrating 500 episodes of The Word!

Feb 12 2025 22 mins  
In 10 years of answering your questions, observing farm changes, and navigating agronomy, what has changed for Peter “Wheat Pete” Johnson? Well, he’s got a few more grey hairs and perhaps an extra wrinkle or two, but the fundamentals of growing high-yielding crops haven’t changed much from episode 1 to 500 of The Word, says… Read More

Wheat Pete’s Word, Feb 5: Cross-border stress, stripe rust alert, snow mould, and crop shares

Feb 05 2025 22 mins  
Snow mould, and stripe rust, and land rents, oh my! How on earth could there be so many disease alerts this early in the season? Well, Peter “Wheat Pete” Johnson would tell you forewarned is forearmed, and both stripe rust and snow mould could be an issue in this upcoming growing season. Also on this… Read More

Wheat Pete’s Word, Jan 29: The Rock, foliar feeding, incremental gains on yield, and saving S

Jan 29 2025 23 mins  
An Albertan and an Ontarian fly to The Rock… no, it’s not the start of a hilarious joke, it’s what really happened this week as RealAg’s Shaun Haney and Peter “Wheat Pete” Johnson both were invited to present to the Newfoundland Federation of Agriculture. Much fun was had (you can check out Wednesday’s RealAg Radio… Read More

Wheat Pete’s Word, Jan 22: Banding phosphorus, feeding top yields, and cold temps with no snow

Jan 22 2025 23 mins  
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. On this week’s episode of Wheat Pete’s Word host Peter Johnson explains why growing point location, air temp, and snow cover all matter when expecting survival of winter… Read More

Wheat Pete’s Word, Jan 15: Sulphur payback, critical thinking, yellow wheat, and making a difference

Jan 15 2025 23 mins  
The new year is rocking and rolling in the best way — the opportunities for learning just keep coming! In this week’s episode of Wheat Pete’s Word, host Peter Johnson shares and discusses some of the key questions discussed at the Southwest Ag Conference and more. From early sulphur decisions, to stressing wheat (on purpose?),… Read More

Wheat Pete’s Word, Jan 8: Cool technologies, top 10 of 2024, and herbicide residue risks

Jan 08 2025 23 mins  
New technology is top of mind in this week’s episode of Wheat Pete’s Word, hosted by Peter “Wheat Pete” Johnson. Between Green Lightning, a plasma technology that essentially is trying to replicate what happens in the atmosphere as lightning strikes to create nitrogen to create N on-farm, and a biological process coming out of Australia… Read More

Wheat Pete’s Word, Dec 18: Winter road safety, slugs and covers, ROI on N, and lethal temps for wheat

Dec 18 2024 23 mins  
What’s the difference between a natural system and a farming system? The harvest, of course! Does that mean we can go “back to nature”? Oh, what a great question, and one that Peter “Wheat Pete” Johnson tackles on this final episode of the 2024 calendar year. In this week’s podcast also hear about using cover… Read More