It's time for T3 fungicides to control fusarium head blight in Ontario's winter wheat, but growers may also have another troublemaker in the cereal crop that they'll need to tackle this time of year. There have been growing reports of cereal aphids in the Ontario winter wheat crop this spring, and growers need will to... Read More
Category: Agronomy
As we enter into post-emergent herbicide timing in parts of the Prairies, crop staging becomes key in deciding when to spray or not to spray. Particularly with pulse crop staging, it can be confusing to compare what's on an in-crop product label with staging guides from Alberta Pulse Growers, Saskatchewan Pulse Growers, or the Manitoba... Read More
Soil compaction is always going to be a hot topic following a trying harvest season. That holds true for much of the eastern Prairies and northern U.S. states this spring. Aaron Daigh, assistant professor of Soil Physics at North Dakota State University says that the 2019 growing season started off wet in the spring, which... Read More
The 2020 growing season in Ontario has kicked off leaps and bounds ahead of 2019, though it's not been without challenges. To catch us up on crop conditions, pest pressure, and what's next, this RealAg LIVE! Q&A features Deb Campbell, founder of Agronomy Advantage. In the video below, you'll hear discussion on a huge number... Read More
Weed control questions, millipede feeding, and a crusting quandary — it must be early June! This week's Wheat Pete's Word is a little longer than usual because there is just so much going on and so many great questions rolling in. Host Peter Johnson has got the answers this week to everything from tufted vetch... Read More
What's bugging your crop? (See what we did there?) Scott Meers, independent agronomist and founder of Mayland Ag Consulting joins RealAg LIVE! host Shaun Haney for an informative and fun chat all about counting bugs. Well, not really. Also not all insects are bugs. Scott would want us to say that. Check out the video... Read More
With June arriving this week, corn is rushing ahead and growing rapidly. Now's the time for growers to get out and scout fields to identify planting issues, determine yield potential and start fine-tuning your management plan, says Kinburn, Ont., agronomist Paul Sullivan. On this episode of RealAgriculture's Corn School, Sullivan notes that stand assessment and... Read More
Should you plant soybeans shallow to get them out of the ground quickly, or plant deeper into more stable soil temperatures? The correct answer is likely somewhere in the middle says Horst Bohner, Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs, soybean specialist. He's monitoring a series of planting date and seeding depth trials at... Read More
Someone has flipped the switch from our cold weather woes, because it's now summer in Ontario - with all the challenges and joys that the hot weather brings. In this week's Wheat Pete's Word, host Peter Johnson flags a crop alert (it's too early, but we're starting there anyway), gives crop updates on corn and... Read More
We're starting to warm up and get into the swing of things for the growing season, so it's a great time to chat corn and soybean agronomy on this Wednesday edition of RealAg LIVE! Host Shaun Haney is joined by PRIDE Seed's Eastern Ontario Market Development Agronomist, Neil McGregor, who covers crop agronomy and the... Read More