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Site-specific disease forecasting

April 2010 - USING WEB-BASED TOOLS CAN HELP MANAGE WEATHER-RELATED RISK despite your best efforts to grow profitable, high quality, disease-free cereal crops, the biggest challenge remains the weather. While we still can’t control it, science and technology…
Estimating nitrogen requirements based on yield response

April 2010 - NEW TOOLS ARE AVAILABLE TO HELP MAKE NITROGEN MANAGEMENT DECISIONS in the past, most of the information regarding nitrogen rates for corn has focused on estimating or predicting how much you need to apply as…
Weeds in winter wheat

April 2010 - SCOUT EARLY, CONTROL WEEDS EARLY AND AVOID DANGEROUS MIXES THAT MAY CAUSE INJURY although not as commonly talked about, wheat may have a critical weed free period just like corn and soybeans. “Recent research coming…
Soybean studies

April 2010 - OAC BREEDS BETTER BEANS soybean oil is highly versatile and new applications for it are rapidly emerging. The Ontario Agricultural College’s (OAC) research team at the University of Guelph, led by Drs. Istvan Rajcan and…
Careful Rotation

April 2010 - HOW TO MAKE THE BEST DECISIONS WITH BOTH AGRONOMICS AND ECONOMICS IN MIND choosing the right rotation – or even deciding to break rotation – can be a difficult decision for growers, who must balance…
Refuge compliance slipping

April 2010 - a recent survey reveals that refuge requirement compliance has slipped to 61 percent in 2009, down from a high of 80 percent in 2005. This is of serious concern for the entire corn industry. When…
The Big Picture: Farmers gain unlikely supporters

March 2010 - NATIONAL AND MULTI-NATIONAL COMPANIES EMBRACE THE BENEFITS OF LOCAL FOOD there is no denying that the local food movement has swept the nation. People are starting to pay much closer attention to where there food…
Respecting the power of water

March 2010 - SOIL EROSION IS BEST TACKLED SOONER THAN LATER soil erosion by water is an important concern on many farms across Ontario – whether realized or not. “Although most operations have adopted some form of conservation…
Future of grain

March 2010 - HIGHLIGHTING THE LATEST TECHNOLOGY IN GRAIN PRODUCTION AND UTILIZATION New research on biodiesel Collaboration between the Government of Canada and a number of energy and transportation organizations is advancing essential research on the storage and…
Cropside: Dead or alive?

AGRONOMIC INFORMATION FROM ONTARIO'S CROP SPECIALISTS

March 2010 - GET OUT INTO your winter wheat fields and assess the crop in the early spring! Every spring calls come in about wheat going backwards. The reality is you didn’t assess those fields closely enough in…