Central Ontario Crop Consultants meeting notes – June 4th 2014

Synopsis: Rainfall Monday evening-Tues varied between 0- 1.25 cm(0.5″). Excellent progress in planting and field work in past week.  Clay soils have gone from being too wet, to hard and dry in surface layer.  Corn and canola  planting is essentially complete, soybean planting ranges from 50-90% complete, edible bean planting has started. Some growers waiting on rain […]

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Simcoe Ag Breakfast Minutes; May 21, 2014

An uncommon scene the morning of May 21 was ponded water in fields of the Norfolk sand plain, where soils have saturated hydraulic conductivity in excess of 9 cm per hour. Some areas including north Oxford received more than 2.5” of rainfall May 20-21; many areas (Niagara, west Elgin) received just under 1”. Patience waiting for […]

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