Harvest weather forecast, canola crush, and a rosy outlook | RealAg on the Weekend, Aug 15 & 16, 2026

I'm Sean Haney and this is Real Ag on the Weekend.

Let's get real and get connected with the week that was in Canadian agriculture.

Real Ag on the Weekend starts now.

Welcome to Real Ag on the Weekend.

I'm your host Sean Haney of realagriculture.com.

I hope you had yourselves a A great week, and here we are, mid-August.

Wow.

Anyway, we've got a great show for you here today.

There is lots to discuss and talk about.

We're going to cover a number of different issues.

I've got some new data that farmers have submitted in our Real Agro Studies Canadian Farmer Sentiment Index.

A big spike upwards when it comes to some of the sentiment around some of the financials.

We'll talk about that.

Maybe you, the audience, has some thoughts and some feedback on the why of it.

We're going to get a bit of a prairie weather forecast for the fall from Eric Snodgrass of Nutrien.

We're going to hear from Mark Walker.

He's the Executive Director at the Canadian Oil Seeds Process Association, I should say, COPA.

That is the organization that represents all the oil seed crushers.

Then we're going to have a discussion about AI today with Jacob Shapiro, who's my co-host on the Real Agriculture Frontlines podcast, talking about Data centers and use of AI and all those kinds of things.

Data centers, a very contentious topic right now.

In urban centers, in rural communities, and it ties to AI use, and we'll get into that here today.

If you have any feedback on today's show, I'd love to hear from you.

Send me an email, shaney at realagriculture.com. You can also call or text the Real Ag Feedback line, 855-776-6100.

So we'll get to some of the sentiment data here, but one of our lead questions for our Real Agri-Studies Insights panel, if you want to find out more about the panel, go to realagristudies.com.