Category: Agronomy
The Southwest Agricultural Conference, Guelph, and Eastern Ontario Crop Conferences have banded together to create one online conference to serve the Ontario agriculture industry in 2021. The combined Ontario Agricultural Conference will be held on January 6th and 7th, 2021, with the theme of Coming Together. The Ontario Agricultural Conference will offer live, interactive sessions... Read More
The wheat is coming off, and the number of drills out in Ontario fields planting cover crops is astonishing. There are clouds of dust everywhere — from a twenty-foot drill seeding oats, to a floater broadcasting cover crop seed with the fertilizer, Ontario farmers are adopting cover crops in a big way. Many think every... Read More
As of 2019, glyphosate resistant waterhemp has been confirmed in 13 counties in Ontario. Christian Willemse, a master of science student at the University of Guelph, under the supervision of Dr. Peter Sikkema, will continue a survey on glyphosate resistant waterhemp this fall as part of his master's project. Farmers and agronomists are encouraged to... Read More
Every corn plant doesn't make a cob, every cob can add extra rows, and nearly every kernel can be pollinated...or not. Each of these yield estimate factors are impacted by different management, explains Greg Stewart, agronomy lead for Maizex Seeds, in this Thursday edition of RealAg LIVE! Of course, Mother Nature has the final say,... Read More
There comes a time when the questions, comments, and follow ups become so numerous, you've simply got to dive in and start handing out answers. For this week's Wheat Pete's Word, host Peter Johnson is taking the "Farmer Rapid Fire" approach and answering as many listener questions as possible in 16 short minutes. In this... Read More