General
GoCrops.ca
Showcases third-party variety and hybrid performance trial data for major Ontario Field Crops. Updated annually, this site details yield data for Cereal Crops, Corn, Pulse Crops, Soybeans and Canola.
Great Lakes YEN
Designed to help local farmers better understand their yield potential and look for yield limiters, the YEN project covers the Province of Ontario and the Great Lakes region of the USA.
Sprayers101
Is a non-profit resource outlining best practices in safe, efficient and effective agricultural spraying. This site hosts numerous articles, videos, presentations, apps, calculators, tables and ePubs.
Soil Health Assessment and Planning Tool
Created as a tool to guide farmers and their advisors in identifying soil health challenges and management practices. SHAP can be used to create a soil health baseline to monitor and/or compare different areas of fields
Cereals
Wheat Seeding Rate Calculator
The Seeding Rate Calculator helps determine the amount of wheat seed needed for fall planting. How to check calibration during planting and review performance post-planting can also be found here.
Wheat Fall Performance Calculator
The Fall Performance Calculator helps you review your seeding results post-seeding, allowing you to determine the actual seeding population achieved across your farm.
Wheat Stand Assessment Calculator
The Stand Assessment Calculator helps you evaluate your wheat stand while walking your field in the spring. This tool aids in making informed management decisions to achieve an optimal wheat stand.
Winter Wheat Staging Guide
The Winter Wheat Staging Guide helps identify growth stages of your cereal crop to make informed management decisions. Applications of nutrients, plant growth regulators and crop protection products have specific windows tied to these stages.
Insect and Pest Management
Crop IPM
The Crop IPM provides detailed information on growth stages, scouting techniques, and common diseases and pests for each crop. By utilizing this information, you can learn how to manage pests effectively while ensuring economic viability.
Great Lakes & Maritimes Pest Monitoring Network
The Great Lakes and Maritimes Pest Monitoring Network monitors traps for various pests, including black cutworm (BCW), true armyworm (TAW), European corn borer (ECB), western bean cutworm (WBC), corn earworm (CEW), and fall armyworm (FAW).
Corn Rootworm Trap Network
The Corn Rootworm Trap Network monitors corn rootworm (CRW) trap sites across North America. The primary goal of this network is to capture rootworm beetle activity both within the season and across multiple years.
Pest and Weather System
The Pest and Weather System (PAWS) provides access to Ontario weather information and decision support tools, such as degree day calculations and precipitation models. These tools help model crop and pest development, aiding in effective pest management decisions.
Corn
Ontario Corn Nitrogen Calculator
The Ontario Corn Nitrogen Calculator estimates the most economical nitrogen (N) rate for corn fields based on over 40 years of Ontario corn N response data.
Ontario Corn Replant Decision Aid Tool
The Ontario corn replant decision aid tool uses planting date and population data to guide the economics of replant decisions.
Ontario Optimum Corn N-Rate Estimator Tool (“Delta Yield” Tool)
The Ontario optimum corn N-rate estimator tool, also known as the “delta yield” tool, provides an end-of-season estimate of the most economical nitrogen (N) rate based on yields from low-N and high-N strips.
Ontario Corn Committee Hybrid Selector Tool
The hybrid selector tool enables head-to-head comparisons of up to four hybrids over four years in Ontario corn committee performance trials. It summarizes performance trial data and economic returns, incorporating factors like corn price, seed costs, and drying costs.
Ontario Crop Residue Value Estimator
The crop residue value estimator tool helps estimate the value of crop residue by calculating the nutrient removal and value of N, P, and K when corn, soybean, or wheat residues are removed. It also factors in costs for baling, transport, and storage.
Forages
Forage U-Pick – An interactive forage species selection tool for Canada
Forage U-Pick is an interactive perennial forage species selection tool for Canada. Choose the growing zone where your farm is based on the map, then select up to three Field Characteristics that are most important to your production system. Forage U-Pick will filter possible species to only show you those best suited to your field. Take the short list to your seed supplier to get a custom blend that really sings.
Selector Tools – Midwest Cover Crops Council
The Midwest Cover Crop Council (MCCC) Cover Crop Decision Tools are web-based systems to assist farmers in selecting cover crops to include in field crop and vegetable rotations. Selecting “Mechanical Forage Harvest Value” or “Good Grazing” as cover crop goals will rank the annual crops in the database on their suitability as forage crops.
NUTRI-Fourrager
NUTRI-fourrager predicts the optimum harvest date for alfalfa-grass mixtures based on plant height and target NDF and RFV. The tool is only available in French, but web browser translations make it usable in English. Note that “valeur alimentaire relative (VAR)” is Relative Feed Value (RFV).
GoForages – Ontario Forage Network
Growing Ontario’s Forages! Find a collection of resources on forage production and marketing, pasture production, and an archive of the variety trial research conducted by the Ontario Forage Crops Committee (1953-2015).
Crop Planning
AgriSuite
A suite of interactive decision tools that can help plan upcoming nutrient applications, on farm planning or farm development. Featuring calculators for crop nutrients, NASM and Nutrient Management Strategy planning, manure storage sizing, greenhouse gas estimations and many more.
Ontario Crop Protection Hub
OMAFA’s official crop protection resource. Built to walk through pest management and crop protection options for field crops, fruit, tree nut, greenhouse crops and vegetable crop protection, this site offers labels, application information, efficacy data and more!
Field Crop Budgets – Publication 60
OMAFA’s official budgeting tool, updated annually to reflect the most accurate cost estimations across Ontario. This tool includes budgeting for numerous crops, including small cereals, canola, corn, forage, soybeans, dry edible beans, switchgrass and several other crops.