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 plant counts… Read More
Category: Crop Schools
Cutworms are a common pest in several crops, including canola, across the Prairies. These below-ground dwellers cause damage by clipping or severing stems of seedlings, so unlike other pest damage, cutworm feeding kills young plants.In this episode of RealAgriculture’s Canola School, Kara Oosterhuis sits down with Dr. Vincent Hervet, research scientist with Agriculture and Agri-Food… Read More
Seeding is well under way across the Prairies and as farmers start seeding canola, flea beetles are likely the biggest pest of concern.For this Canola School, correspondent Kara Oosterhuis sits down with Dr. John Gavloski, the provincial entomologist with Manitoba Agriculture and Resource Development.Even if canola isn’t in the ground yet and as seeding progresses,… Read More
Wireworms are a widespread concern across the prairies early in the growing season. Kara Oosterhuis recently caught up with John Gavloski, provincial entomologist with Manitoba Agriculture and Resource Development, in this Canola School episode to talk about the insect pest that can impact your canola crop.Wireworms are the larval stage of the click beetle and… Read More
Harvest weed seed control is one option when it comes to managing some of our resistant weeds across the prairies. However, when it comes to wild oats, they shed their weed seeds before harvest time comes around.Breanne Tidemann, research scientist with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC), has published a paper on some of the exciting… Read More
Should you go ground or air?That’s the question many growers struggle with as they try to determine the best method of applying disease-fighting fungicide to their growing corn crops.On this episode of RealAgriculture Corn School we tackle that question with two of North America’s leading plant pathologists — University of Kentucky’s Kiersten Wise and OMAFRA’s… Read More
Many farmers are familiar with consulting economic threshold charts when it comes time to control insects, but many may be surprised to learn that there are economic thresholds for other pests, too.Gregory Sekulic, agronomy specialist with the Canola Council of Canada, explains in this Canola School episode that although spraying is an important tool, and… Read More
Are Ontario farmers doing a better job of getting phosphorus to stay put on their farms?Over the past decade, farmers, agronomists, researchers and governments have ramped up efforts to reduce the amount of phosphorus leaving farm fields and creating environmental challenges in areas such as the Lake Erie and Sainte-Claire watersheds.University of Waterloo geography and… Read More
When it comes to stress on a canola crop, there are two ‘buckets’ that it can fall into: abiotic stress and biotic stress.Biotic stressors can include things such as harmful insects — flea beetles, for example — and abiotic stressors have to do with factors dealing with the environment, such as frost. This time of… Read More
How many crop heat units (CHU) does corn need to emerge?That’s a question many growers are asking as their corn seed shivers through the cold spring 2020 growing conditions. On this episode of RealAgriculture’s Corn School, we put that question to Dale Cowan, AGRIS Co-operative agronomist. He says that corn seed typically requires 165 to… Read More