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
Category: Crop Production
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
Fusarium graminearum is set to be removed from Pest Nuisance Control Regulation of the Agricultural Pests Act, according to Alberta's Minister of Agriculture, Devin Dreeshen. Value chain partners in the industry-led fusarium head blight (FHB) working group say they welcome the provincial government’s news that lays the foundation for better fusarium head blight management and... Read More
India has signalled a move to reduce the tariff on incoming lentil shipments received by August 31st. An official from the National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India Ltd. says that India will reduce the lentil tariff from 30 per cent to 10 per cent (plus a 10 per cent tax) for shipments arriving between... 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
Durum wheat has historically been a profitable crop, for drier parts of the country and especially for farmers in the Palliser Triangle. Farmers are moving into durum cropping and the projected tonnage may increase to as high as six million tonnes, contrary to the projected drop in tonnage according to Statistics Canada. Neil Townsend, Senior... Read More