Wheat Petes Word – RealAgriculture

Jan 29 2025 50 ep. 22 mins 159
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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

Wheat Pete’s Word, Dec 11: Erosion’s long tail, phos talk, wheat heads, and sulphur sources

Dec 11 2024 23 mins  
How long do you think the impact of tillage erosion lasts? A few years? A decade? Try several decades! Work out of Manitoba is assessing how conservation tillage adds back what tillage erosion takes away, but the preliminary findings are that tillage erosion is very hard to reverse. That’s part of this episode of Wheat… Read More

Wheat Pete’s Word, Dec 4: A winter wallop, too-big canola, phosphorus availability, and killing oats

Dec 04 2024 22 mins  
Wasn’t that a snowstorm? Well, depending on where you are in Ontario, it was either the most snow in one storm in years, or hardly a flake fell. The onset of winter is the onset of learning season, but it’s always the learning season here on Wheat Pete’s Word. In this week’s podcast, settle in… Read More

Wheat Pete’s Word, Nov 27: Winter weather, phosphorus decisions, and tillage talk

Nov 27 2024 22 mins  
When asked about tillage, RealAgriculture’s Peter “Wheat Pete” Johnson says to do as little as you can. But when tillage is necessary what should it be — disc ripping? Moldboard plowing? In this episode of Wheat Pete’s Word, Pete says that tillage erosion is 10 times worse than wind and water erosion. The disc ripper… Read More

Wheat Pete’s Word, Nov 20: Hat waving, choosing corn hybrids, crop prices, and fall weed control

Nov 20 2024 23 mins  
Mid-November seems a little late to be spraying in southern Ontario, but the warm temperatures have made for some great opportunities and fall weed control simply works, says Peter “Wheat Pete” Johnson in this latest episode of Wheat Pete’s Word. Fall weed control is especially worth it on perennial sow thistle, Canada thistle and on… Read More

Wheat Pete’s Word, Nov 13: Cool connections, patience, bushel weights, P in manure, and soil pH

Nov 13 2024 23 mins  
A low soil pH just needs some lime and is good to go — right? Not necessarily so, explains Peter “Wheat Pete” Johnson in this latest episode of Wheat Pete’s Word. Correcting low soil pH can be very difficult and expensive if the soil in question has plenty of buffering capacity, plus the pH problem… Read More