Breakfast meetings bring crop agronomists and industry professionals together during a key time in the growing season to discuss current field conditions. These meetings are a great opportunity to ask questions, work through field challenges, and share clear, consistent messages for growers across the industry. Participants are welcome to purchase their own breakfast and the meetings offer a valuable chance to connect and network with peers.
The meeting locations and meeting dates for all breakfast meetings are listed below. For the 2026 season, the Ridgetown meeting will be live-streamed and in-person. The Northern meeting will continue as a virtual meeting. All other meetings will be held in-person only and cannot be livestreamed because they are held in restaurants.
If you cannot join us for breakfast, you can catch up on the discussion in the summary notes below (posted later that same week).
Picture of Notill Soybeans into Corn Stalks in the Hills of Northumberland Cty. Thank you to Adam Bent (Nufarm) for sponsoring breakfast. General As experienced almost everywhere, rainfall amounts the last two weeks have varied widely. Planting is ongoing but area-specific. In general, the group thought the ground was even a bit on the dry […]
Picture of Rye Cover Crop Cut/Baled and Pastured for Feed (Oxford Cty.) Thanks to Dave Townsend of BASF for sponsoring breakfast. General Not overly wet but enough small, scattered frequent rains to make it just a bit sticky. They were hoping, for the most part, to have equipment back in the fields Wednesday but it […]
Thank you to John Seliga from Pioneer for chairing the meeting and sponsoring breakfast. Summary: The forecast for the week looks great, but clay soils across the region will likely continue to be too wet to plant for the rest of the week. With hot weather the soil surface will begin to crust and […]
Breakfast Sponsor: Thanks from the group to Alex Zelem – C&M Seeds Quotes of the Week: “Perfect is the enemy of good” – Alan McCallum “Skilled incompetence” – Ed Tomecek Synopsis: Extremely wet over much of the area, with up to 6.5” (162.5 mm) of rainfall over the past two weeks. Little planting progress on […]
General The weather in the past week has being great for planting. Crop heat unit accumulation from the 1st of May are about 200 as of the 15th of May as compared to the normal of 150 (Ottawa airport). Some areas had a light frosts this past Friday and Saturday. Where the fields were left […]
Exeter Agribusiness Minutes May 15, 2018 Malibu Restaurant, Exeter Chair for this meeting was David Townsend. Thank you to BASF for sponsoring breakfast. Chair for the next meeting will be Joanna Wallace. Synopsis: A tremendous amount of field work was possible late last week and over the weekend in this region. Rain last […]
Breakfast Sponsor: Thanks from the group to “Bob Thirlwall” – Monsanto Quotes of the week – “Why does my neighbours wheat look better – Neighbour says “why does his wheat look better than mine?” – Alan McCallum “Absolutely Fascinating” – Peter Sikkema in reference to how herbicide resistance develops Synopsis: May 1st to May 7th […]
Thank you to Ken Currah of BASF for chairing the meeting and sponsoring breakfast. Synopsis: Planting progress from London area through to Niagara and Hamilton-Wentworth is variable depending on soil type and rainfall in the past week. Warm weather is quickly bringing on broadleaf weeds, and winter wheat and alfalfa have been growing more rapidly […]
Picture of Quinte SCIA Relay Cropping Trial Site @ Cobourg. Equipment has really started to move in the fields since Monday. Prior to that, only sandy soils had seen planters. Some manure is going out, although those with enough storage are waiting to apply in the summer instead. This decision needs to balance timeliness of […]
While to the west in Huron and along the lake, equipment is rolling hard, to the central and eastern parts of the area, little if anything has been done. Significant acerage that as of Tuesday had not seen a tractor tire turn yet this spring. Winter Wheat Late planted wheat (October 15-20) has been slow […]
Winchester Agribusiness Breakfast Meeting Minutes – May 1, 2018 General discussion Big turnout at the breakfast meeting is a good indication that there’s not much happening in the fields. As in most of the province, wet conditions and additional rain in the forecast is keeping most equipment off the field. Some growers are beginning to […]
Thank you to Huston De Brabandere who chaired the breakfast meeting and to Greg Stopps (DuPont Pioneer) who sponsored breakfast. There was an excellent turnout and discussion. The next meeting will be on May 15 starting at 7:00 am for breakfast (meeting starts at 7:30). David Townsend will be the chairman. Synopsis: The sun is […]
General The consensus is that not a lot has been happening to date. Rivers and streams are high to overflowing and tile outlets are running full with lots of water still in the fields. Combinations of late snow, cool conditions and lack of drying weather have kept equipment in the yard. Even the cool wet […]
Trying to get away from the landscape above. As late as Wednesday night it was snowing heavily in Bruce and Grey! General The consensus is that not a lot has been happening to date. Rivers and streams are high to overflowing and tile outlets are running full with lots of water still in the fields. […]
There was an excellent turnout and good discussion this week. Thank you to Brian Woolley (Syngenta) for sponsoring breakfast. The next meeting will take place on Wednesday, May 9th at 7:30am. Wheat There was significant discussion of frost heaving damage to winter wheat, particularly in heavy clay soils. Wheat that was seeded late is most […]