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Grain Farmers of Ontario

Author: Joanna Follings

PGRs in winter wheat

AGRONOMIC INFORMATION FROM ONTARIO'S CROP SPECIALISTS

June 2024 - PLANT GROWTH REGULATORS (PGR) ARE APPLIED TO WINTER WHEAT TO REDUCE PLANT HEIGHT AND INCREASE STEM THICKNESS. This reduces the risk of lodging or delays the onset and amount of lodging, making managing and harvesting…
Planting date matters

AGRONOMIC INFORMATION FROM ONTARIO'S CROP SPECIALISTS

August 2023 - THE PLANTING DATE map used by Ontario growers was developed by research conducted in the 1990s (Figure 1). This research found that every day planting is delayed beyond the optimum planting date for a region,…
Split apply nitrogen?

AGRONOMIC INFORMATION FROM ONTARIO'S CROP SPECIALISTS

March 2022 - SHOULD I SPLIT apply nitrogen in winter wheat? SOME THOUGHT PROCESSES TO CONSIDER …. SINGLE APPLICATIONS Convenient, low application costs – only one pass Can produce high yields if lodging risk and Nitrogen (N) losses…
Winter barley

OVERCOMING CHALLENGES

March 2021 - THERE HAS BEEN a renewed interest in winter barley for many reasons. Known for its early maturity compared to winter wheat, this crop provides an opportunity to double crop soybeans for those in longer season…
Cropside: Spring management

AGRONOMIC INFORMATION FROM ONTARIO'S CROP SPECIALISTS

February 2021 - IT MAY BE hard to believe but spring is just around the corner and that means we need to start thinking about our early spring management in winter cereals! But before we jump into spring,…
Cropside: Managing oats

AGRONOMIC INFORMATION FROM ONTARIO'S CROP SPECIALISTS

April 2020 - AT A RECENT Ontario Cereal Crop Committee (OCCC) meeting there was a good discussion around oat yields in Ontario. If you look at the trendlines for oat yields in Ontario compared to western Canada, you…
Cropside: Planting wheat

AGRONOMIC INFORMATION FROM ONTARIO'S CROP SPECIALISTS

August 2019 - OPTIMUM PLANTING DATES FOR WINTER WHEAT IN ONTARIO AS WE SAW with the 2019 winter wheat crop, if winter wheat is planted late and if conditions are not fit, there is a greater risk of…
Cropside: A good wheat crop

AGRONOMIC INFORMATION FROM ONTARIO'S CROP SPECIALISTS

August 2018 - THE 2017 SEASON had its challenges with a cool growing season pushing soybean harvest well into late October. This delay in soybean harvest, combined with some wet weather, resulted in two winter wheat crops in…
Cropside: Managing stripe rust

AGRONOMIC INFORMATION FROM ONTARIO'S CROP SPECIALISTS

December 2017 - IN 2016, THE milder winter conditions resulted in early leaf and stripe rust infections in Tennessee and Kentucky. This resulted in rust spores being blown into Ontario earlier than we typically see. By mid-May 2016,…
Cropside: Spring cereals planning

AGRONOMIC INFORMATION FROM ONTARIO'S CROP SPECIALISTS

April 2017 - AS WE GET into the busy planting season and think about our spring cereals, it is important to keep a few things in mind to help get that cereal crop started off right!