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Winter wheat is advancing rapidly with warmer temperatures. The window for herbicide applications is closing as fields reach flag leaf stage. Flag leaf herbicide applications run a high risk of crop injury. If weeds are a harvest issue, pre-harvest glyphosate is the best option on advanced fields. E... Continue reading
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Canola Report: May 9, 2012
Canola: Planting is 95 % complete in southern growing areas and nicely started in northern districts. April planted fields are at cotyledon-1st leaf stage. Flea beetles are now actively feeding. Populations are highest in field borders. Threshold for control is 25% leaf feeding. Weeds are emer... Continue reading
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Winchester Ag Breakfast Meeting Notes, May 1st 2012
Discussion:
From mid to the end of April, Ottawa accumulated about 60 CHUs, or about 1/3 of the CHU needed for corn emergence. Snow/Canada geese are damaging a number of winter wheat and alfalfa fields.
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Frequent light frosts caused leaf tip burn in some of the winter wheat. The... Continue reading
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Forage Report – May 2, 2012
Some frost damage to alfalfa occurred again in late-April, mostly in areas in south-western Ontario. Some of these fields were also frost damaged in late-March. Regrowth of these fields will likely occur, but maturity will be delayed and yields reduced. www.fieldcropnews.com/?p=2236
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Approximately 5% of the overall acreage has been planted. Once fields dry planting will start in earnest. There is no reason to wait at this date even if soil temperatures are cool. The yield benefit of early planting generally outweighs the risk of planting into cold soils. Seeding rate recommendat... Continue reading
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Pasture Report: May 2, 2012
Pasture growth continues to be modest with cool temperatures and limited moisture until this past week. For optimum pasture performance give the grasses and legumes an opportunity to produce a minimum of 10-12 cm of new growth before turning livestock into a paddock. In an ideal situation each pad... Continue reading
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Was this post helpful? Loading ...Corn Report: May 2, 2012
Corn planting is 20-90% complete depending on the area of the province; provincially planting is estimated at 65%. Some of the early (i.e. April 5-15) planted corn had emerged and the cold temperatures of April 27, 28 & 29 froze the above ground tissue. However, to date, growing point and seed i... Continue reading
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Cereal Report: May 2, 2012
Freeze injury is a significant concern in the winter cereal crop with the very low temperatures of April 27/28/29. Leaf damage is significant in most fields, but it is head damage that is critical. Split stems in frost prone areas. Heads should be bright green to yellow. Discoloured or water soa... Continue reading
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Canola Report: May 2, 2012
Planting is 70 % complete in southern areas, and freezing overnight temperatures has kept most growers in northern areas out of the field. Cold temperatures are delaying emergence, with early planted canola taking 14-21 days to emerge. There have been several reports of low emergence and frost damag... Continue reading
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Exeter Agribusiness Breakfast Minutes, May 1, 2012
Included: Freeze injury, glyphosate resistant weeds, weed control, wheat disease, soybean seeding rates.
Synopsis: Extremely cold temperatures over the weekend caused widespread damage to fruit trees, etc. Temperatures as low as -8 C were measured with one report of -10 at ground level (Norfolk c... Continue reading
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Simcoe April 25, 2012 Agribusiness Breakfast Meeting Notes
Key messages:
Ensure at least 2 modes of action are used in all herbicide applications as part of the resistance management strategy. Where weed escapes from burndown treatments require additional glyphosphate, we need to send the message of combined modes of action as good weed management ste... Continue reading
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Alfalfa Weevil and Black Cutworm
Alfalfa Weevil
Reports from Michigan and Iowa indicate that alfalfa weevils were activity is early this year. We’ve had some fairly warm weather earlier this spring and the weevils likely have had a bit of a head start. I was out in some fields in Oxford this week and I found some early insta... Continue reading
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Pasture Report: Week of April 23rd, 2012
Cool and dry conditions have slowed grass development. Do not start grazing until the grass has the 3rd leaf emerged (a minimum of 7 to 10 cm) and then rotate quickly between paddocks. Management during the first round of rotational grazing can affect the productivity of the pasture for the rest of ... Continue reading
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Was this post helpful? Loading ...Soybean Report: Week of April 23rd, 2012
A few fields of soybeans were planted in the province last week. Field conditions were excellent. Little seeding progress is expected this week with cool and wet conditions. Weather permitting it’s expected that considerable acreage will be seeded in the first week of May. This would be ideal fo... Continue reading
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Forage Report: Week of April 23rd, 2012
Nitrogen (N) dramatically increases the yield of grass stands, as well as forage protein levels. Optimum rates depend on the cost of N, anticipated value of the hay, thickness of stand, moisture conditions, and whether it is pasture or hay. Good grass stands with less than one-third legume, can gene... Continue reading
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