A collective summary of information gleaned from the weekly breakfast meeting minutes with local crop consultants in Ontario
OMAFRA Field Crop Team May 29, 2019 1360 Comments Off on Exeter Agribusiness Breakfast Meeting Minutes – May 28, 2019Thanks to Jeremy O’Shea (Pioneer) for chairing the meeting and to Alex Zelem (C&M) for sponsoring breakfast. The next meeting will be Tuesday, June 11th starting at 7:00am for breakfast and 7:30 for the meeting. Synopsis: There was widespread rainfall over the weekend with most areas receiving 1 to 6 inches of rain on Saturday. It’s raining again today. Heavy…
OMAFRA Field Crop Team May 24, 2019 1514 Comments Off on Mt. Forest Agribusiness Breakfast Meeting Minutes – May 21, 2019Thank you to BASF for sponsoring breakfast. The next meeting will be June 4th at 7:30 am. If there are any suggestions on edits required to the minutes herein, how to improve the meeting, or topics to discuss if you cannot attend, please let Ian McDonald know. Cool temperatures are continuing the slow growth in overwintering crops. Total crop heat unit…
OMAFRA Field Crop Team May 23, 2019 1004 Comments Off on Simcoe Agribusiness Breakfast Meeting Minutes – May 22, 2019It was a small group in attendance at the Simcoe breakfast meeting this week. Some may have been busy with field work, but overall things are still moving slowly across the region and may not be moving at all on heavy soils that remain wet. Those in attendance reported that producers are optimistic planting will begin in a big way…
Breakfast Sponsor: Thanks, from the group to Stephanie Divitaris, Syngenta Quote of the week: “It is bizarre that winter wheat is at the flag leaf stage and emerging at the same time.” Peter Johnson Synopsis: The rains eased up a bit in the last week or so allowing some field activity, mainly on the sandier soils. Temperatures have remained on…
OMAFRA Field Crop Team May 16, 2019 1096 Comments Off on East Central Agribusiness Breakfast Meeting Minutes – May 15, 2019Thank you to James D’Auost and Pioneer for sponsoring breakfast. The next meeting will be May 29th at 7:30 am. If there are any suggestions on how to improve the meeting, or topics to discuss if you cannot attend, please let Ian McDonald or Christine O’Reilly know. Cool temperatures are causing slow growth in overwintering crops. About 90% of the heat…
OMAFRA Field Crop Team May 16, 2019 1079 Comments Off on Exeter Agribusiness Breakfast Meeting Minutes – May 14, 2019Thank you to Joanna Wallace for chairing the meeting and to Corteva for sponsoring the breakfast. The next meeting will be on May 28th starting at 7:00 am for breakfast (meeting starts at 7:30). Synopsis: Very little planting progress has been made in the region with much of the area receiving rainfall over the weekend again keeping things saturated. Some…
OMAFRA Field Crop Team May 16, 2019 1124 Comments Off on Winchester Agribusiness Breakfast Meeting – May 14, 2019Weather Conditions Wet, cool weather conditions have continued, with short windows of opportunity to plant in the past two weeks. Most fields are saturated, and several fields have some ponding. A few fields are actually underwater in Renfrew close to the flooding areas. Soils that are semi-dry have had fertilizer applied and will be planted when the field conditions are…
OMAFRA Field Crop Team May 10, 2019 1082 Comments Off on Simcoe Agribusiness Breakfast Meeting – May 8, 2019The crop scene in the Haldimand-Norfolk, Niagara area has not changed much in the 2 weeks since the last meeting. Most of the region had over 2 inches of rainfall since the beginning of May with some precipitation on all but one day. Temperatures have also remained relatively cool, but one day of warmer temperature with sunshine did result in…
OMAFRA Field Crop Team May 9, 2019 1257 Comments Off on Ridgetown Ag Breakfast Meeting Minutes – May 7, 2019Breakfast Sponsor: Thanks, from the group, to Bob Thirwall, Bayer Crop Science / Dekalb Seeds Synopsis: Field work remains limited due to frequent and heavy rainfall. Wheat remains a concern with a high number of Agricorp damage reports in the region. Nitrogen applications on wheat are variable depending on soil conditions. Reports of a few corn and soybean fields planted…
OMAFRA Field Crop Team May 8, 2019 1331 Comments Off on Mt. Forest Agribusiness Breakfast Meeting Minutes – May 07, 2019Thanks to Troy Hamilton and Pioneer for sponsoring breakfast. Not much has happened in the fields since we met two weeks ago. Continued wet conditions, mostly from small rain events and low heat and little sunshine preventing drying, has hampered planting and other spring field activities so far. But the turn around starts now! CHU accumulated the first week of…
OMAFRA Field Crop Team May 2, 2019 3733 Comments Off on East Central Agribusiness Breakfast Meeting – May 1, 2019Image: a healthy wheat field near Cobourg, ON Thank you to Nicole Beechey from BASF for sponsoring breakfast. The next meeting will be May 15th at 7:30 am. If there are any suggestions on how to improve the meeting, or topics to discuss if you cannot attend, please let Ian McDonald or Christine O’Reilly know. The past two weeks have been…
OMAFRA Field Crop Team May 2, 2019 1176 Comments Off on Exeter Agribusiness Breakfast Meeting Minutes – April 30, 2019Thanks to David Townsend who chaired the meeting and to BASF for sponsoring breakfast. Joanna Wallace has agreed to be the chairperson for the next meeting that will be on May 14th starting at 7:00 am for breakfast (meeting starts at 7:30). Synopsis: Rain, rain, and more rain has been the story for Ontario over the last few weeks. Not…
OMAFRA Field Crop Team April 30, 2019 1367 Comments Off on Winchester Agribusiness Breakfast Meeting – April 30th, 2019Quote of the Day: “Forage soybean is a concept, not a variety.” – Sean Cochrane Sponsor: François Mercier, BASF Consistent rains and cooler temperatures have delayed most field operations. Even where fields look dry enough at the surface, temperatures remain cool and most soils measured are averaging only about 5 degrees C. Field activity to date remains minimal,…
OMAFRA Field Crop Team April 25, 2019 909 Comments Off on Simcoe Agribusiness Breakfast Meeting Minutes – April 25, 2019The weather has not improved significantly from the last meeting, and there are still tough decisions to make on whether to keep fields of winter wheat. In the 5 days prior to the meeting, Caledonia had 2” of rain, Delhi had 2.5” and Belmont just shy of 2.5”. Winter Wheat There are fields that have germinated but have not shown…
OMAFRA Field Crop Team April 25, 2019 1251 Comments Off on Ridgetown Ag Breakfast Meeting Minutes – April 23, 2019Ridgetown Ag Breakfast Meeting Minutes – April 23, 2019 Breakfast Sponsor: Thanks, from the group to Lisa Powers, Corteva Synopsis: This is National Soil Conservation Week. Not a lot has been happening in the field in terms of field crops to date and with the heavy rains over the weekend most areas received from 1 to over 2.5” of rain….
