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Tag: corn planting

Agronomy Guide For Field Crops – Corn – Planting

Posted on March 25, 2021 (March 16, 2021) by Ben Rosser

Planting Seeding Date The best yields in Ontario are usually obtained from corn planted in late April and the first half of May, as the crop is able to use the full growing season. Early planting also results in earlier maturity in the fall, reducing the risk of damage from an early fall frost or […]

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Ridgetown and Simcoe Breakfast Meeting Minutes – May 5th, 2020

Purple dead-nettle (lamium purpureum) flowering at the beginning of May in a winter wheat field.
Posted on May 6, 2020 (May 11, 2020) by OMAFRA Field Crop Team

The warm weather in the last week resulted in lots of corn and some soybean planting in the region, though wet soils on heavier ground has not been touched yet, especially in the Norfolk to Niagara region. Planting progress and conditions are much better than 2019. Some March planted sugar beet and carrot fields had […]

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Bayer Fluency Agent – Facts for 2014 Planting Season

Posted on April 16, 2014 (April 22, 2016) by Tracey Baute

There continues to be some mixed messaging going on in terms of when and where Bayer Fluency Agent must be used this growing season. Here are the facts as stated by PMRA. NOTE the exceptions below: 1) The mandatory use of Fluency Agent only applies when planting corn and soybeans.  All other crops are exempt. […]

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Ready, Set, Variable Rate Population Here We Go!

Posted on May 14, 2013 (May 14, 2013) by Nicole Rabe

May 7, 2013 ~ Variable Rate Corn Population: Yesterday was a sunny and successful variable rate planting day at Blythe Brae Farms in Oxford County. Greg Stewart and I created a normalized multi-year corn yield map (6 corn years in total) and then simplified the normalized yield map into 3 zones: low, medium, and high. Next the management zones were […]

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Taking Steps towards Reducing the Risk to Pollinators

Posted on January 25, 2013 (April 22, 2016) by Tracey Baute

Written by: Tracey Baute – Field Crop Entomologist and Greg Stewart – Corn Specialist, Ministry of Agriculture and Food and Ministry of Rural Affairs A high level of concern was raised last spring regarding bee kills and corn planting. Many growers are asking what actions they can take to help reduce the risk of bee […]

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