Category: Crop Schools

Did you till soybean stubble this fall? If you have, you’re driving Peter Johnson nuts!In this Soybean School episode, RealAgriculture’s resident agronomist confesses that the only problem with the tremendous Ontario fall weather is it gives farmers too much time to till.Wheat Pete says farmers should be inspecting their soybeans fields to see whether residue… Read More

Peter Johnson was practically giddy as he walked through wheat fields on a beautiful November day near Woodstock, Ontario.“We’ve got big acreage of wheat and big yield potential. How could Wheat Pete be any happier,” pronounced Real Agriculture’s resident agronomist as he digested the fact that Ontario farmers have planted almost 1 million acres to… Read More

Ontario Grain Farmers lost the first round of its court battle to contest the province’s new seed treatment regulations, but the fight will continue. “At the end of the day this has always been a fight on principle,” says GFO Chair Mark Brock. “I don’t think we want to tuck tail and run because we got… Read More

Harvest is in the homestretch and it’s time for farmers to start thinking about how the precision agriculture data they’ve accumulated can help build a winning strategy for 2016.In this Corn School episode, AGRIS Co-operative agronomist Dale Cowan looks at how farmers can combine performance data and field observations to diagnose issues that contribute to… Read More

Other Episodes: Corn School: Top 5 calls for planter helpCorn School: Setting the planter for uniform emergenceCorn School: A plan of attack for tar spot, five years inCorn School: Nitrogen knowledge nuggets for the year aheadCorn School: Foliar fungicide and sulphur deliver ROICorn School: Building biology for better yieldsCorn School: Tackling tar spot with disease… Read More

Other Episodes: Wheat School: Seed treatments are like putting a “bunny hug” on seedWheat School: Seeding ultra early helps wheat beat the heatWheat School: How stress can increase winter wheat yieldWheat School: More than just germ — leveraging value from a seed testWheat School: Winter wheat packs potential for 2025Wheat School: Drought mitigation starts long before… Read More

Researchers at the University of Saskatchewan are studying whether single kernel sorting technology is effective for salvaging fusarium-infected wheat, and ultimately, reducing the amount of waste in food production.Since acquiring a Swedish-made near-infrared seed sorter known as the BoMill TriQ in 2012, U of S researchers working together with the Canadian International Grains Institute have conducted several… Read More

Visible clubroot symptoms were first identified in a canola field in Alberta in 2003. It has since spread through much of the province, and by the end of 2014, it was present in 30 municipalities and into neighbouring provinces. It was also that year, that a pathotype of the disease observed the year earlier was confirmed… Read More

Have you tried baling corn stalks? Agronomist Pat Lynch thinks you can’t bale enough.At Canada’s Outdoor Farm Show last month, Lynch helped co-ordinate the Corn Stalk Baling Demonstration. Afterwards he joined the Corn School to share his thoughts on whether Ontario farmers should be jumping on the stalk baling bandwagon.Today’s corn hybrids are producing twice… Read More

Too wet isn’t good, but neither is too dry for growers looking to get the most value for soybeans.According to researchers at North Dakota State University, on a 40 bushel-per-acre crop, harvesting soybeans at 9 percent moisture rather than 13 percent will cost the farmer around 1.8 bushels per acre. At $10 per bushel, that’s an… Read More