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Cobourg + Winchester Agribusiness Breakfast Meeting – June 24, 2020

Posted on June 26, 2020 (July 10, 2020) by OMAFRA Field Crop Team

This was the last spring breakfast meeting for the Cobourg + Winchester calls. A season recap call will be planned for late November or early December. Thank you to everyone who participated in these virtual meetings this spring. If you have any feedback, please contact Sebastian Belliard (Sebastian.belliard@ontario.ca), Ian McDonald (ian.mcdonald@ontario.ca), or Christine O’Reilly (Christine.oreilly@ontario.ca). Weather Rainfall has been […]

Exeter and Mt Forest Agribusiness Breakfast Meeting Minutes – June 23, 2020

Posted on June 24, 2020 (June 25, 2020) by OMAFRA Field Crop Team

This was the last breakfast meeting for the Exeter and Mt Forest group. Thank you to everyone who has participated this season, and for adapting to the new Zoom format. Corn Crop advisors are getting a lot of questions right now about leaf wrapping and yellow flash on corn leaves. While this may look similar […]

Northern Agribusiness Breakfast Meeting – June 17, 2020

Posted on June 19, 2020 (June 22, 2020) by OMAFRA Field Crop Team

This was the last spring breakfast meeting for the northern Ontario group. We would like to thank everyone that has participated in the first year of virtual breakfast meetings across the north. Please provide feedback (meghan.moran@ontario.ca) on whether you would like to continue the meetings next season and how we might improve the experience to […]

Ridgetown-Simcoe Agribusiness Breakfast Meeting Minutes – June 16, 2020

“Initial planting in corn field which had been partially replanted due to poor and variable emergence.”

Posted on June 17, 2020 by OMAFRA Field Crop Team

Approximately 52 people attended the 6th Ridgetown-Simcoe Breakfast Meeting. This was officially the last call for these regions this spring, though there was interest in continuing on for at least one more call – stay tuned for details. Overall, discussion focused on good looking wheat, tough-looking corn, herbicide injury concerns in soybeans and edible beans […]

Cobourg + Winchester Agribusiness Breakfast Meeting – June 10, 2020

Posted on June 12, 2020 (June 12, 2020) by OMAFRA Field Crop Team

Weather Conditions The last two weeks have been dry, although some areas received rainfall and/or thunderstorms. Frost damage has affected some corn and soybean stands, particularly on muck soils in Renfrew and Glengarry. There have been isolated reports of hail damage around St. Isidore and on Wolfe Island. Forages First cut is underway across the […]

Exeter – Mt Forest Agribusiness Breakfast Meeting – June 9, 2020

Posted on June 10, 2020 (June 11, 2020) by OMAFRA Field Crop Team

Soybeans Horst Bohner chaired the meeting and started with a summary of soybean emergence and replants. Some soybeans are taking a long time to emerge. Beans are still emerging from early planted stands (where soils were dry). Plant establishment and the need for replanting due to crusting is worse this year than in recent memory, […]

Northern Agribusiness Breakfast Meeting – June 3, 2020

Posted on June 4, 2020 (June 4, 2020) by OMAFRA Field Crop Team

Reports from the northwest and northeast remain positive and for most the planting season is done. A dip in temperature on the weekend did not result in any known crop losses. Most regions had been dry and have completed successful planting seasons and are now enjoying rain. Cochrane District has been cool and therefore soils […]

Ridgetown-Simcoe Agribusiness Breakfast Meeting Minutes – June 2, 2020

Posted on June 3, 2020 (June 3, 2020) by OMAFRA Field Crop Team

About 70 people joined the call for the 5th Ridgetown-Simcoe Breakfast Meeting. The next meeting on June 16th will be the last call for this region. Most of the corn and soybean planting has been wrapped up in the area. However, on heavier textured soils in Chatham-Kent, Niagara and Haldimand there still remains anywhere from […]

Cobourg + Winchester Agribusiness Breakfast Meeting – May 27, 2020

Posted on May 28, 2020 by OMAFRA Field Crop Team

Photo: Uneven corn emergence in a clay loam soil. Today’s notable quotable was from Paul Sullivan: “Cutting trash [in overworked soil] is like cutting a cucumber on a sofa, there’s nothing to push against to cut the residue”. If you like the maps in this article, similar ones on precipitation and temperature are available from AAFC HERE. Data […]

Exeter + Mt Forest Agribusiness Breakfast Meeting Minutes – May 26, 2020

Posted on May 27, 2020 (August 7, 2020) by OMAFRA Field Crop Team

Weather: Warmer conditions starting late last week have fast-tracked crop growth. Tracking growing degree day (GDD) accumulation – Base 0 – for April and May in Huron county revealed 159 GGD in April and 244 GDD from May 1-25. Rainfall during the past week was sporadic with isolated thunderstorms resulting in flooded fields in […]

Northern Ontario Breakfast Meeting Minutes – May 20, 2020

Posted on May 21, 2020 by OMAFRA Field Crop Team

Dry conditions have enabled rapid progress on planting. Some areas could use some rain to help crop emergence. The excellent weather conditions meant some districts were not represented on this week’s call, but those that were present estimated overall planting progress at 70-80%. Cereals, canola and grasses are all Base 0˚C GDD crops. The cool […]

Ridgetown-Simcoe Agribusiness Breakfast Meeting Minutes – May 19, 2020

Posted on May 21, 2020 (May 22, 2020) by OMAFRA Field Crop Team

19 May 2020, 8:00 am Due to COVID restrictions, ag breakfast meetings will be paired and held virtually by video conference on the “zoom” platform in 2020. The fourth 2020 Ridgetown-Simcoe virtual ag breakfast meeting was held May 19 with 80 participants. Weather: Crop development has been slow coming out of several days of well below seasonal, and […]

Cobourg + Winchester Agribusiness Breakfast Meeting Minutes – May 13, 2020

Posted on May 14, 2020 by OMAFRA Field Crop Team

Below-seasonal temperatures was the underlying issue in this week’s call. Peterborough County and Kawartha Lakes seem to be the most delayed areas in central and eastern Ontario. Retailers have been able to keep up with customer demands. There was talk of fertilizer backlog at the ports, but so far this has not affected the supply […]

Exeter + Mt. Forest AgriBusiness Breakfast Meeting Minutes – May 12, 2020

Posted on May 13, 2020 (May 13, 2020) by OMAFRA Field Crop Team

The topic of conversation this week is “cold conditions”. Temperatures were well below seasonal for much of the past week due to the presence of an arctic air mass. Night-time temperatures reached as low as -8⁰C in some parts of southern Ontario. Many parts of the province experienced low temperatures between 0 and -4⁰C and snow […]

Northern AgriBusiness Breakfast Meeting – May 6, 2020

Posted on May 7, 2020 by OMAFRA Field Crop Team

The morning of the meeting conditions were sunny across the north, but still cold. Generally, conditions have been sunny and windy so soils have been dry. A rainfall last week provided welcome moisture. There were no major concerns raised regarding grain crop planting and conditions, other than cold temperatures. Some regions are a week or […]