Seeing dimpling on your canola leaves? Stem feeding? Chances are, it's flea beetles causing the damage. This year in the southern prairies, flea beetles are becoming a significant issue, most likely in part due to dry conditions. And with neonicotinoids continuing to hit headlines, flea beetle control could become even more difficult in the coming... Read More
Category: Crop Production
The 2019 Ontario wheat crop can best be described as a dog's breakfast...and that's perhaps being kind. What's left in the fields varies from not bad, to not too bad but with dead patches, to relatively uniformly poor and stagey. Depending on the field, the challenges are different. Uniform fields are easy to manage when... Read More
For a large part of the corn growing area of Ontario the deadline to plant corn is fast approaching, however Agricorp — the crop insurance vehicle in the province — has announced several extensions and exceptions for the 2019 cropping year. Depending on the area, farmers may have up to June 17 to plant corn... Read More
FMC Canada is setting down new roots in Ontario and building its presence across the Canadian crop protection landscape. Two years after closing a deal to acquire a portion of DuPont's crop protection business when that company merged with Dow AgroSciences to form Corteva, FMC has opened new corporate headquarters in Mississauga, Ont. In this... Read More
Clubroot. Many producers have the viewpoint of "We don't have it in our area, so we don't need to sanitize." This isn't an alert that clubroot has spread — it's an acknowledgment that it could come to your area, even if you are in a non-traditional clubroot zone, which is why growers have to be... Read More
For several weeks the message has been that growers need be adjusting their corn variety heat units based on late planting. For some growers, it has become too difficult to drop much further based on hybrid availability in certain heat unit ranges. RealAg Agronomist Peter Johnson recognizes the challenge. “As you move into the lower... Read More
This very wet, cool Ontario spring is still presenting challenges with the winter wheat crop. Once winter finally moved out, concerns over the survival of much of the wheat crop were confirmed, and the challenges did not end there. According to RealAg agronomist Peter Johnson, who appeared on RealAg Radio on Monday, “On some of... Read More
The USDA has released its planting progress report, confirming what everyone has been seeing out their window. As of June 2, an estimated 31 million acres of intended corn remains unplanted. In the last week, U.S. growers only gained 9 per cent in corn planting progress, and of the planted acres, 46 per cent of... Read More
According to Agriculture and Agri-Food Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau, regulations are now in place for the changes to the Advanced Payments Program (APP) announced at the beginning of May. The original changes were an increase to the APP cap from $400,000 to $1,000,0000 for all producers in an effort to help farmers in the face of... Read More
The first week of June is a chance for people across Ontario to celebrate the fresh, grown-close-to-home food produced by the province's farmers. It's also a chance for farmers to share on social media about what goes on behind the scenes to bring Ontarians' their food. Dubbed Local Food Week, June 3 to 9, 2019,... Read More