Fall Stand Evaluations For a majority of the province, wheat planting is more than likely completed. However, there still may be some acres get planted if field conditions allow. For those with emerged wheat, now is a great time to get out in the fields and conduct a stand evaluation. If you are still waiting …
Growing Great Wheat Begins With Selection of Proper Soy Maturity “What is YOUR Wheat Bean?” Pardon? What IS a Wheat Bean…? A New GMO crop option? (No, please do not leave this page to perform a Google search, is won’t help you as it is a made up term.) In my last five years as …
Stories from across the world that are worth paying attention to If you are on twitter, or pay attention to any agriculture news resource, you have likely heard about the tough times that our Western Canadian wheat producing neighbours are experiencing. Growers throughout the west have experience a harvest like no other, with constant snow threats …
The Wheat Team has stepped up their game this summer and has purchased a JD 750 no-till drill. The Drill is intended to help in seed production to plant small acres of high pedigree seed as well as support our local dealer network with planting demonstration plots that include our varieties. The moral of the story is that pre-work equipment checks and calibration are important at the start of each planting season. Read more to find out what happened with the 750’s maiden voyage!
Start Clean, Stay Clean has always been The Wheat Teams recommendation for weed control in winter wheat. With more and more glyphosate resistant weeds and noxious weeds spreading across the province, getting ahead of them and controlling these weeds in the fall is imperative the be successful with your 2020 wheat crop. Read more to find out what The Wheat Team is recommending.
Find out if you were a winner of 10 free bags of seed at Canada’s Outdoor Farm Show. Also, find out the answers to our most asked questions at the farm show this year. Late beans and New varieties were the topics.
Persistent wet weather has made nitrogen and sulphur applications extremely difficult for some parts of the province. Flag leaves have started to emerge; no nitrogen has been applied, what are your options? Read more to learn what the Wheat Team is recommending.
It’s been very cold and exceedingly wet, and the wheat does not like it. The amount of termination will be the largest in a generation. Many long term members in the industry can not recall a year when it has ever been this bad. Once in a generation, and hopefully not for another very long time. READ HERE to see how Agricorp fits in to the equation.
Mother Nature has not made it easy for the 2019 Ontario winter wheat crop. Some fields will stay, some will go, but why is it so drastic this year? Evaluating wheat fields across multiple counties, there are some contributing factors that directly correlate. Read more to find out what The Wheat Team has observed!
