Category: Crop Schools

Other Episodes: Canola School: On-board chemical storage, direct injection saves rinses and critical time at sprayingCanola School: From cotyledons to cutworms — scouting for a strong startCanola School: Keeping an eye on new clubroot pathotypes, as confirmed count reaches 55Canola School: Yield targets help to maximize crop profitabilityCanola School: Insect friends vs foes and the… Read More

Put down your popcorn, buckle your seatbelt and hold on as Real Agriculture’s Bernard Tobin and Peter Johnson rip through a 2016 Corn School preview.What’s up for Corn School 2016 on Real Agriculture? Where will we go? What will we cover? Who will you see? You’ll get it all in three minutes.The 2016 season kicked… Read More

There were plenty of lessons to be learned about growing faba beans in 2015, as the number of acres covered by crop insurance in Saskatchewan tripled from just under 20 thousand in 2014 to around 60 thousand last year.“When you increase acres, there are definitely things we gain more information on,” notes Sherrilyn Phelps, agronomy… Read More

Wide row soybeans are poised to make a comeback in Ontario, says OMAFRA soybean specialist Horst Bohner.Whether it happens will likely depend on how farmers evaluate the importance of four key factors. Speaking at the recent SouthWest Agricultural Conference at Ridgetown College, Bohner explained that equipment is the first thing to consider. “We have big… Read More

How do specific corn hybrids respond to intensive management practices? Do they deliver higher yields? Are those extra bushels profitable for growers?Those are some of the questions the Ontario Corn Committee (OCC) is trying to answer with its new intensive management corn trials.At the SouthWest Agricultural Conference in early January, OCC’s Dr. David Hooker provided… Read More

So you’re looking to apply some late nitrogen to boost wheat protein. The recommended timing is immediately after anthesis, just a few days after applying fungicide to protect the head against fusarium head blight. Would it work to combine…?Don’t even think about it, says Dave Franzen, soil specialist at North Dakota State University.“To put on the… Read More

If farmers want to supersize their corn yields, they have to challenge conventional thinking and become students of the crop.That was the main message National Corn Growers Association yield contest champion Randy Dowdy shared with hundreds of farmers at the 2016 SouthWest Agricultural Conference in Ridgetown, Ontario earlier this week.In 2014, Dowdy set a world… Read More

7 to 10 plants per square foot is still the target plant population when seeding canola. That hasn’t changed, but some of the practices used and the way we think about achieving an ideal plant stand might need to be re-evaluated.For example, research has shown that stand establishment is generally higher with a lower seeding speed, so there’s… Read More

Real Agriculture’s resident agronomist Peter Johnson has found yet another reason to grow wheat.In this episode of Wheat School, our intrepid WheatPete turns reporter as he interviews Dr. Tom Bruulsema, the International Plant Nutrition Institute’s Phosphorus Program Director, on how farmers can better manage phosphorus application by including wheat in the rotation.Bruulsema notes that planting… Read More

 Soybean Cyst nematode (SCN) was first identified in Ontario in 1998. Since then the pest has slowly and methodically trekked across the province and can now be found in most parts of Ontario.In this episode of Soybean School, Syngenta agronomist Shawn Brenneman and field biologist Marijke Van Andel discuss findings from a research survey they’ve just… Read More