Field Observations
SUMMER 2025
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August 28, 2025 As August comes to a close, so does much of the cereal harvest, with just a few hundred acres left to be harvested for the winter wheat harvest, and the spring cereal…
Author: Laura Ferrier
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Field Observations
SPRING 2025
- June 19, 2025 As summer creeps closer, warm temperatures are on the rise. So far, crop heat unit (CHU) accumulation remains slightly behind the five-year average. However, with warm temperatures being experienced, crop stage progression… -
Field observations year in review
GRAIN FARMERS OF ONTARIO’S AGRONOMIST LOOKS BACK
- AS ANOTHER YEAR COMES TO A CLOSE, IT IS BENEFICIAL TO LOOK BACK and see how the year progressed and what trials and triumphs there were across the province. The number of pictures I currently… -
Field Observations
FALL 2024
- November 28, 2024 As the holiday season approaches, harvest is almost entirely wrapped up across the province. Unlike some years, November harvest conditions have been excellent, and farmers have not had to battle to get… -
Field Observations
SUMMER 2024
- September 19, 2024 Incredible weather for mid-September has helped the corn and soybean crops reach maturity a few days earlier than expected. Soybean harvest has begun, as has winter wheat planting. Corn Some corn has… -
Field Observations
SPRING 2024
- June 13, 2024 This spring is starting to sound like “the song that never ends.” If you can remember it from childhood, it’s a song that just goes on and on and never ends. While… -
GoCrops.ca
A FRESH WAY TO FIND TRIALS FOR ONTARIO CROPS
- FOR OVER 80 YEARS, ONTARIO FARMERS HAVE RELIED ON third-party variety performance and hybrid trial information to help guide their seed selection choices for corn, soybeans, cereals, canola, and edible beans. What originated as large… -
A year in review
GRAIN FARMERS OF ONTARIO AGRONOMIST WEIGHS IN
- LIKE MOST YEARS, it has been a year of ups and downs: temperature, moisture, and, in some cases, disease. Heavy rains and snow across much of the province at the start of spring caused a… -
Field Observations
FALL 2023
- December 7, 2023 Another season has come and (mostly) gone. Corn harvest is roughly 90 to 100 per cent complete, and with another few good days of harvest, it should be nearing the finish line.… -
Field observations
Summer 2023
- September 21, 2023 This week, there is some good and bad news. The good is that soybean harvest has begun or is not that far around the corner (be sure that combines, planters, and winter…