Matt McIntosh

Matt McIntosh

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Matt is a freelance writer based between Essex County and Chatham-Kent. He is interested in all things scientific, as well as rock n' roll, hunting and history. He also works with his parents on their sixth-generation family farm.

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Higher nutrient levels were tied with higher corn yields in the first year of a corn yield enhancement group.
Crops

Collaborating for higher corn yields

Honeyland Ag Services runs second corn yield enhancement group

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Ontario corn growers interested in benchmarking and improving their crop can participate in a grassroots corn yield enhancement initiative. Reminiscent of the Great Lakes Yield Enhancement Network (YEN) wheat competition, […] Read more
Rural roads are regularly destroyed due to continuous construction and production traffic.
News

Opinion: When investment comes to town

Leamington and Kingsville are playing catch-up when it comes to greenhouse development

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The landscape surrounding Highway 77, north of Leamington, was largely open field not long ago. Within the last decade – less then seven or so years, really – virtually all […] Read more
Tar spot is highly prolific, spreading on the wind and from underlying soil residue. Years of data taken in Ontario and the United States show tar spot can impact every commercially available corn variety.
Crops

Top strategies for managing tar spot

It’s all about tolerant hybrids, fungicides, and timing

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Tar spot is now well-established in the province and experts from across North America encourage corn growers to think of it as a regional, not field specific disease. That would […] Read more
China already holds over 50 per cent of the world’s wheat stocks and 70 per cent of corn stocks. The country has been increasingly diversifying the sources from which it imports food.
News

Will China be able to feed itself sustainably?

What the country’s food security strategy means for global hunger and stability

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As the world’s largest net importer of food, China will play a very significant role in global food security. According to a new research report “Linking global food security with […] Read more
An example image analysis flow for conventional weed detection algorithms to extract ginger plants from the background and to then identify purple nutsedge. The original image is first transformed into the hue, saturation, and value colour space, before image features such as mean colour channel statistics are calculated, thresholds applied through a deterministic algorithm, resulting in the identification of ginger plant.
Crops, Machinery

What’s next for precision spray application?

It’s AI technologies that incorporate a deeper learning, says Australian expert

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Guy Coleman, precision weed control researcher at the University of Sydney, says incorporating deep-learning capabilities into sprayer artificial intelligence (AI) systems will allow for ever more efficient weed control while […] Read more

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