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Topic: yield

Managing bluegrass

AGRONOMIC INFORMATION FROM ONTARIO'S CROP SPECIALISTS

April 2023 - BLUEGRASS COMPETITION IN winter wheat can result in up to 50 per cent yield losses. Over the past two seasons, three herbicides (Simplicity GoDri, Varro and Axial) have shown promising results and have prevented significant…
Cereal straw yield potential

ONTARIO CEREALS CROP COMMITTEE RESEARCH

February 2023 - LIKE GRAIN VOLUMES, straw yield potential continues to increase as plant breeders improve on and develop new cereal varieties. But while generally good news for producers selling straw or using it in their livestock business,…
Early and late season planting

RESEARCHING FOR RECOMMENDATIONS

April 2022 - EVERY PLANTING SEASON is slightly different. Sometimes you can get into the fields in early April, and sometimes it is well into June before it is ‘go’ time. The very late planting dates for 2019…
Long-term cover crop research

NEW YIELD FINDINGS

April 2021 - DR. LAURA VAN EERD, professor of sustainable soil management at the University of Guelph, is managing two state-of-the-art long term cover crop research trials at the Ridgetown Campus. Established in 2007 and 2008, these trials…
A root-focused mindset

BETTER QUALITY AND HIGHER YIELDS

April 2021 - HEALTHY, PRODUCTIVE RELATIONSHIPS are an important thing — particularly in the plant world. According to Jill Clapperton, a soil scientist and co-founder of the soil health management company Rhizoterra Inc., practices which support better relationships…
Yield and quality in wheat

NITROGEN RATES

March 2021 - MANY WHEAT FARMERS across Ontario have increased their nitrogen rates in recent years with resulting increases in yield. Whatever nitrogen rate you went with last year, however, Peter Johnson, agronomist with Real Agriculture, cautions you…