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Planting earlier is the easiest way to overcome complaints about not getting that “good catch of clover.”

Back to the basics, with red clover

Farm experience and university research add up to make a strong case in favour of the cover crop

By Ralph Pearce October 11, 2016

Reading Time: 7 minutes Over the past three years, a curious turnaround has spread across Ontario. Some farm watchers explain it by pointing to lower commodity prices. Others attribute it to the increased attention on soil health and sustainability. Either way, interest in cover crops is growing stronger and stronger. On some farms, the focus is on novel, multi-species […] Read more

Western bean cutworms feeding on an ear of corn in 2011. (Photo courtesy Ohio State University Extension)

Corn, Crops

Corn trait’s action on western bean cutworm seen ineffective

By John Greig October 7, 2016

Reading Time: 2 minutes Ontario entomologists have similar concerns to U.S. counterparts who have taken an unusual step by sending an open letter to seed companies about failures in control of western bean cutworm (WBC) by the Cry1F trait. Seven leading U.S. agriculture entomologists posted the letter this week, after a high-WBC-pressure year in the U.S. Midwest caused them […] Read more

Crops

What’s the deal with soil compaction?

Other countries are tackling compaction head on. Here, there’s hardly a whisper

By Ralph Pearce October 4, 2016

Reading Time: 7 minutes Compaction has somehow become one of those topics that gets scooped up off the back-burner from time to time. It gets discussed and sometimes it even gets preached about, and then it fades away again until next time. It isn’t a new topic. Nor is it particularly controversial. Everyone agrees that compaction causes damage to […] Read more

The newest soft red winter wheat from Dow Seeds grows to medium to tall height and offers above-average yields.

Cereals, Crops

New in winter cereal varieties

The long-term outlook for cereal yields is up. Here’s why

By Ralph Pearce August 15, 2016

Reading Time: 4 minutes We might refer to the category as “winter cereals” but everyone knows winter wheat is the undisputed leader in the field, and the picture for the crop took an even more positive turn late in 2015. An early soybean harvest and a long, warm fall, plus a greater commitment to longer rotations, made for an […] Read more

Field horsetail with one of nine different treatments being evaluated in 2016 (left) compared to un-sprayed check (right).

Crops

Pest Patrol: What can be done about field horsetail?

#PestPatrol with Mike Cowbrough, OMAFRA

By Mike Cowbrough August 3, 2016

Reading Time: 3 minutes I get asked about field horsetail management more than any other weed, and it’s the one that I have the least amount of effective solutions for. Sure, you can get reasonably good top-growth control with the right herbicide, but the success is short-lived due to field horsetail’s tenacity. I often joke that the best way […] Read more

From do-it-yourself modifications to manufactured units, the machinery for inter-seeding covers is evolving at a remarkable pace.

Cereals, Crops, Forages

Four growers who believe in inter-seeding into standing corn

"It’s something that we have to start doing and advertising to the consumer," Gerard Grubb, Mildmay farmer

By Ralph Pearce June 14, 2016

Reading Time: 11 minutes As trends go, this one is picking up steam. Two years ago, it seemed a novelty. You were lucky to see it outside of a few test locations such as at Canada’s Outdoor Farm Show, although there were also isolated growers who had become believers, especially in Quebec. Today, the movement has clearly spread, not […] Read more

Table 1: Annual ryegrass sensitivity to soil-applied corn herbicides.

Corn, Crops

Pest Patrol: Sensitivity of inter-seeded annual ryegrass and red clover to corn herbicides

#PestPatrol with Mike Cowbrough, OMAFRA

By Dr. Darren Robinson, Mike Cowbrough June 8, 2016

Reading Time: < 1 minute Research has been done in the United States and Canada to determine the tolerance of cover crops to various soil-applied corn herbicides. This article provides an overview of the results of that work, and provides some consensus across the different locations. Two important factors influence the potential for carryover injury to rotational crops: The sensitivity […] Read more

Growers need to return wheat to its million-acre scale to help with diseases like fusarium, as well as quality issues.

Cereals, Crops

If it’s wheat, spray for fusarium

This disease has become a perennial issue — and it will be for years to come

By Ralph Pearce April 26, 2016

Reading Time: 5 minutes With today’s tight margins, there are times when it can make sense to play the odds in order to cut spray costs, at least until there’s visible damage to the crop. But with fusarium head blight in wheat, it’s just not advisable. Peter Johnson believes it’s time to adopt the same caution with fusarium as […] Read more

Guide Business

Our farmland for sale

The West is clamping down on foreign ownership of farmland, and even in Ontario, where there are few controls, overseas purchases are much lower than the rumour mill says

By Richard Kamchen April 4, 2016

Reading Time: 5 minutes Almost every rural coffee shop has its own version of the same story. Foreigners are buying up Canadian farmland and they’re making land prices soar beyond the reach of local farmers as a result. But is it true? Maybe. But not likely. In fact, according to the people with their fingers on the pulse, such […] Read more

Crops, Guide Business

Canada’s agricultural research deficit

Public ag research in Canada gets cut again and again, all while proof grows that science is needed more than ever

By Gord Gilmour March 29, 2016

Reading Time: 9 minutes Get public research right and the results can be impressive, whether the benefit is incremental, like the new crop varieties that, year after year, edge farm productivity up, or if it’s transformative like the invention of canola or the equally ground-shifting release of early genetics that saw corn and soybeans to sweep the East and […] Read more

Daily Network News

Trump tells farmers that tractor companies should lower prices

Get farmers in on federal water security strategy planning, CFA says

U.S. finalizes biofuel blending quotas for 2026-27, cuts RINS for foreign feedstocks

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