Prairie Crop Update with Bruce Burnett: 2024 edition

Prairie Crop Update with Bruce Burnett: 2024 edition

Follow Bruce as he provides crop progress updates over the 2024 growing season

Update No. 9, Oct. 11, 2024 Update No. 8, Aug. 1, 2024 Update No. 7, July 26, 2024 Update No. 6, June 27, 2024 Update No. 5, June 20, 2024 Update No. 4, June 6, 2024 Update No. 3, May 16, 2024 Update No. 2: May 9, 2024 Update No. 1: April 30, 2024

face-it silage facer

VIDEO: New tool helps prevent spoilage in silage

Just 'Face-it'. It's a good idea to maintain your silage pile

It’s always fun to see new products at the Canada’s Outdoor Farm Show site, especially when their inventor is on-hand to talk about them. In this case, it was Eli Wideman who spoke with us about how this simple, but effective silage tool called ‘Face-it’ helps maintain a silage pile to avoid spoilage.


kubota tractor

VIDEO: Conversion kit makes conventional tractors autonomous

Sabanto, a tech company that offers an autonomy conversion package for a range of conventional ag tractors, showed their system at Canada’s Outdoor Farm Show in September. Here, Alex Valdez, field application engineer with Sabanto, explains how the system works and who Canadian producers can contact for a field demonstration.



A map shows where international attendees come from at the World Dairy Expo 2024.

VIDEO: World Dairy Expo 2024: Final wrap up

More long-term implications of the dairy beef trends, and is it AI, AI or AI?

It’s the final day of the World Dairy Expo 2024 in Madison, Wisconsin and John Greig, Glacier FarmMedia’s senior livestock editor wraps up his time spent at the event. He talks about the long-reaching ramifications of more dairy cows bred to beef bulls, talks about event attendance and… is it AI, AI or AI?

small farm robot

VIDEO: Several ‘upsides’ to this autonomous farm robot

Jana Tian, CEO and cofounder of a Waterloo-based technology startup company called Upside Robotics, talks about “Beethoven”, the company’s fully autonomous robot at Canada’s Outdoor Farm Show last month. It works on the “swarm” concept and is designed to apply fertilizer in corn rows during the growing season, allowing growers to reduce input costs by applying just the right amount of […] Read more

AGCanadaTV Special Feature: Stripper headers on the upswing?

AGCanadaTV Special Feature: Stripper headers on the upswing?

With weather increasingly being more erratic, growers are looking for new strategies that can help keep moisture on fields. So what about bringing an old idea to the forefront? Stripper headers are designed to leave taller stubble on fields to act as a snow catch during winter, and as an added bonus, it can also […] Read more



Paul Larmer, former CEO of Semex, named international person of the year at the World Dairy Expo 2024.

VIDEO: World Dairy Expo 2024: Paul Larmer international person of the year

Former CEO of Semex talks about what he learned growing it into a global company

Paul Larmer retired as CEO of Semex, the Canadian dairy genetics company in early 2024. He was recently named the International Person of the Year by the World Dairy Expo in Madison, Wisc. Larmer sat down with John Greig, Glacier FarmMedia’s John Greig at the World Dairy Expo to talk about what he learned about […] Read more