Pioneer Made to Grow Podcast – Details, episodes & analysis

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Pioneer Made to Grow Podcast

Pioneer Seeds Canada

Business

Frequency: 1 episode/34d. Total Eps: 49

Overcome today’s toughest farming challenges with the latest innovations, agronomy tips, best practices and more as host Andrew Campbell welcomes leading ag experts and trusted industry voices to chat about the hottest topics in Canadian agriculture.

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🇨🇦 Canada - Management
24/09/2026
#84
🇨🇦 Canada - Management
08/04/2026
#59
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21/01/2026
#60
🇨🇦 Canada - Management
19/01/2026
#93
🇨🇦 Canada - Management
18/01/2026
#57
🇨🇦 Canada - Management
17/01/2026
#73
🇨🇦 Canada - Management
09/01/2026
#54
🇨🇦 Canada - Management
08/01/2026
#86
🇨🇦 Canada - Management
13/11/2025
#79
🇨🇦 Canada - Management
11/09/2025
#73

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Getting the best silage for your animals - even with droughted corn

Episode 49

Friday, September 5, 2025 • Duration 26:57

For livestock producers, getting top quality corn silage into the bunker or silo is key to milk yield and weight gain for the rest of the year. But as every grower knows, and a lot of growers are facing in 2025, Mother Nature can create unique challenges. Drought is a big one for many in 2025. In a recent webinar, Nelson Lobos the Senior Nutritionist at Corteva, spoke at length about the good and bad of making droughted corn into silage as well as what all growers can do to ensure they put away the best possible feed for the year ahead.

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Looking for Red Flags Early In the Growing Season

Episode 48

Thursday, June 26, 2025 • Duration 25:26

While it may seem early to start thinking about the 2026 growing season, this time of year can actually offer the best indication of some of the things you may want to change, particularly when it comes to planter and seeder mechanics. Whether it is seeding depth, fertilizer targeting, stand counts, or a range of other issues, Andrew finds out what growers should be scouting for with a goal of making sure the crop gets the best potential start every year. Helping find those answers are Ben Rosser, corn specialist for the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Agribusiness; Jenna Gregoire, Pioneer Area Agronomist in Northwest and Central West Saskatchewan along with Holly Loucas, Pioneer Area Agronomist in the Southern Ontario region of Norfolk to Niagara.

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Hula & Harrell: Talking with the US Corn & Soybean Yield Champions

Episode 47

Thursday, May 8, 2025 • Duration 34:14

When you hear a corn yield over 400 bushels per acre, or a soybean yield over 200, it can feel hard to imagine how a grower can reach such incredible numbers consistently. But for David Hula and Alex Harrell, the corn and soybean yield champions in the US, it's all about the details. Both David and Alex won the competition in previous years, and both won again in 2024 thanks to their relentless passion for trying to solve the limiting factors of yield potential. In this episode of the podcast, Andrew talks with David and Alex about seed selection, fertility, soil and tissue sampling and everything else that these champions find is critical to their success.

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From Commodity Classic: How To Make Technology Profitable For Your Farm

Episode 46

Wednesday, April 23, 2025 • Duration 22:05

When it comes to technology, the options that you can invest in for your farm are almost endless. It can even be hard to know where to start. One of the education sessions from the 2025 Commodity Classic asked the question, “How can I be sure technology investments are profitable?” Joining Andrew on the podcast is Assistant Professor from Purdue University Chad Fiechter as well as Emeritus Professor, also from Purdue, James Mintert. Also joining in on the discussion is Trenton Brisby, Corteva's Agronomy Innovation Marketing Manager.

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Stories from the Canadian Yield Hero Champions

Episode 45

Wednesday, April 9, 2025 • Duration 18:11

Pioneer's Yield Hero contest continues to evolve in Canada, which includes a grand prize trip for two to the Commodity Classic. From the 2025 show, Andrew Campbell speaks with growers Maggie McDonnell & Dallas Dau as well as Area Agronomists Greg Stopps and Colleen Redlick about how growers can get involved in the contest, what they are doing to push yield on their farms, and how growers from across Canada can take part and try to win a trip to Commodity Classic themselves.

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On soybean trait systems: "What am I gaining, what am I giving up?"

Episode 44

Thursday, March 6, 2025 • Duration 27:49

With the growing season just around the corner, the Enlist E3 soybeans are taking a big leap in 2025 with Pioneer growers across the country moving to Enlist traited beans. On this episode, Andrew Campbell looks to the lessons from the past couple of years as growers have transitioned to the Enlist system about what works and what to watch out for. Joining him is Pioneer Area Agronomist Chris Robson, Pioneer Sales Rep Aaron Bowman and Jevin Vyn, a farmer from Southwestern Ontario.

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"We haven't seen a disease capable of yield reduction as what Tar Spot can"

Episode 43

Tuesday, December 17, 2024 • Duration 28:01

The number of growers who have to consider the impacts of Tar Spot in corn continues to grow, with the 2024 growing season being one of the most obvious that if you don't manage it properly, the yield hit can be catastrophic. On this episode of the podcast, Andrew speaks with Pioneer Area Agronomists Greg Stopps and John Seliga about what their experiences in tar spot were in 2024 and more importantly what can be done to manage it in 2025 as the disease shows no signs of slowing down its spread across Central Canada.

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"Forget the marketing hype of silage hybrids - it's about yield"

Episode 42

Tuesday, December 3, 2024 • Duration 29:43

Whether it's a beef or dairy operation, making sure the best forages are harvested is one of the most important steps to profitability. For corn silage that starts with the right hybrids. In this episode, Andrew talks with Greg Frank, a Pioneer Rep in Southern Alberta, Ashley Knapton, an Associate Pioneer Rep in Eastern Ontario, and Dr Bill Mahanna, Global Nutritional Services Manager based in Iowa about what you should consider when choosing a hybrids, what labels are important to look for, and how to manage that crop throughout the growing season to ensure you've set yourself up for success on your livestock operation.

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"Verticillium is a very new disease to canola in Western Canada"

Episode 41

Wednesday, November 6, 2024 • Duration 24:05

No matter what the crop, it always seems like there is a disease that needs your attention in order to make sure you can get as close to a hybrid's yield potential as possible. In Alberta, while Clubroot and Sclerotinia weren't as prevalent in the 2024 canola crop, Blackleg and Verticillium were. In fact, when it came to verticillium in particular, Pioneer Sale Rep Shawna Hogg saw more incidences of verticillium this year than she's seen before. In this episode, Andrew talks with Shawna about Pioneer Senior Research Association Tom Ernst about what the impact was from canola diseases in 2024 and what some of the management strategies can be to try to lessen canola disease impact.

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"I always like to stay on the leading edge, and really wanted to try them"

Episode 40

Wednesday, October 9, 2024 • Duration 16:26

When it comes to growing seasons for soybeans, 2024 provided plenty of challenges for Ontario grower Chris Bell. Rain was the biggest one, as it never really stopped; but that also brought others challenges like white mould and the need for a very flexible weed control system. In this Brew with an Agronomist episode, Andrew talks with Chris and Pioneer Agronomist Rebecca-Jo Cellini about what he faced with a field of the new Z-Series genetics, and what all growers are looking for when it comes to beans that can reach their yield potential.

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