Reading Time: 2 minutes Recent OMAFRA funding for agricultural and horticultural societies will help, but larger exhibitions are having serious challenges. The Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs (OMAFRA) expanded the eligibility for agriculture societies’ annual grant application to help offset the financial losses brought on by COVID-19. For 2020 nearly $1 million are available to all […] Read more
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Fair funds help Ontario ag societies survive
Larger organizations that host many events in a year are hurting financially
High disease pressure, low impact
Late onset of soy sudden death syndrome should mean fewer yield challenges
Reading Time: 2 minutes Sudden death syndrome (SDS), a common disease found in soybeans, is showing up across the province but should be of limited yield impact this year due to its late onset. “We have seen a higher instance of sudden death syndrome than most years. We had quite a bit of it in 2018. Last year we […] Read more
Desiccant options continue to decline for dry beans
Use of chemicals on dry beans increasingly depends on requirements of end users
Reading Time: 2 minutes Ontario dry bean growers continue to search for alternatives to use as a desiccant after buyers rejected the further use of glyphosate as a pre-harvest burndown in 2019. Limitations on other chemicals are beginning to follow. Why it matters: Farmers need to be vigilant on weed control with dry and edible beans as desiccant restrictions […] Read more
Latest farming innovations highlighted at Canada’s Digital Farm Show
Third annual Innovations Showcase helps farmers locate new innovations in Canadian agriculture
Reading Time: 12 minutes Canada’s Digital Farm Show is a great opportunity for farmers to view and experience the latest and greatest innovations and products within the Canadian agriculture industry. This is the third year for the show’s Innovation Showcase, making it easier for farmers to know what is available or new at the show. Exhibitors were asked to […] Read more
Consumers look to healthy food post-COVID lockdown
Comfort, less healthy foods were popular early in the pandemic
Reading Time: 3 minutes Jane Dummer, a registered dietitian, says the pandemic has caused changes in Canadian eating habits. “If you had asked me in September, ‘would we have run out of baking needs, flour and toilet paper in a pandemic?’ I would have said no, especially because originally the pandemic, COVID-19, was really identified as only respiratory, and […] Read more
VIDEO: Soybean Sudden Death Syndrome
Field Talk with Bob Thirlwall: How to identify SDS and its impact on yield
Reading Time: < 1 minute On this edition of Field Talk, Farmtario reporter Jennifer Glenney speaks with Bob Thirlwall, market development agronomist with Bayer CropScience, about what you should look for when identifying Sudden Death Syndrome in soybeans and a link he’s seen to soybean cyst nematode during soil tests.
Decoupling Canadian pork price from American price study still ongoing
Reading Time: < 1 minute Canadian pork producers asked the Canadian Pork Council (CPC) back in 2018 how a unique Canadian pork price can be set to decouple the price from the American market. The American price is used as the benchmark for Canadian prices because enough hogs are sold outside of contracts for packers to bid on, which results in more […] Read more
Hog producers lose money, request changes to risk management
Canadian Pork Council takes different approach to extract government funds
Reading Time: 4 minutes What was looking like a profitable year for Ontario pork producers has turned into a wreck. That’s prompted the Canadian Pork Council to come up with a hybrid proposal to fix income supports under AgriStability in a desperate bid to help the sector navigate the market chaos created by COVID-19. While most of the industry’s […] Read more
New tool allows scripting of crop protection products
The Climate FieldView tool creates special management zones in fields
Reading Time: 3 minutes Climate FieldView has released a new manual crop protection prescription that allows farmers to create variable-rate scripts for any zone in their field. The new feature works for fungicides, herbicides, insecticides and growth regulators to help growers create special management zones within each field, and assign product rates to each region while following label directions. […] Read more
Trial looks at cover crops in 60-inch corn
Increased sunlight exposure to the soil is thought to help the establishment of cover crops
Reading Time: 2 minutes A demonstration project south of Clinton is looking at 60-inch row corn, over traditional 30-inch row corn, to better establish cover crops. It is thought that the wider row corn can increase the light penetration to the soil, increasing the ability for cover crop establishment. The impact on corn yield or the following year’s soybean […] Read more
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