Corn School: Managing & Maintaining Soil Nutrient Budgets
Just as in money management, investments you make in your farm’s soil nutrient bank account may be short or long term. Depending on the nutrient, crop yields, the weather and soil type, nutrient levels...
View ArticleCorn School West: The Risks of Cold Soil & Waiting ‘Til Soil is “Fit”
“You shouldn’t plant until your soil is fit.” It’s a great quote, but what does “fit” soil look like? Well, it’s not just what it looks like, soil fit for planting corn also needs to be warm, though we...
View ArticleCorn School: The Soil Squeeze Test, Ground Temp & Kicking off Corn Planting
Patience wears thin as we head in to May and the ground is still wet and cold. The cost of going in too soon, based on soil conditions and not the calendar, can be mighty costly. If the ground is fit,...
View ArticleSoybean School West: Identification and Management of Chlorosis
Chlorosis, or yellowing of leaf tissue in plants, can be an indicator of a great number of issues from nutrient deficient soils to poor root systems or saturated soils. Manitoba farmers especially are...
View ArticleCorn School West: Is an N Top-Dress Worth it?
Perhaps we should go ahead and just call 2014 the year of variability. Manitoba farmers struggled with a late, wet spring, as did many parts of Saskatchewan. Alberta has largely fared far better, with...
View ArticleCorn School: Wins of the Spring — When it All Goes Right
If you’ve been drooling over the neighbour’s corn field and wondering how they managed to get such a nice looking crop, wonder no more! As Aaron Stevanus, market agronomist with PRIDE Seeds, shows us...
View ArticleCorn School: Get Fungicide Timing Right — Know Where & When to Look For Disease
Growing a bumper crop of corn requires a big meal of plant nutrients. But if you’re going to feed a hulk of a plant, you’ve got to make sure you protect it too. Fungicides may not always be warranted,...
View ArticleCorn School: Ontario Corn Needs Hot August to Cool Frost Concerns
After a cool July that felt more like September, much of Ontario’s corn crop will need a steamy August to make maturity. In this episode of the Corn School, Pride Market Agronomist Ken Currah explains...
View ArticleCorn School: When Will Your Corn Mature?
In this episode of the Corn School, PRIDE Seeds’ market development agronomist Ken Currah takes a look at corn development stages, starting with tasselling and moving through development, to help...
View ArticleThe State of the Soybean Crop in Ontario — An Early Fall Update
The Real Agriculture team took in the sights and sounds of Canada’s Outdoor Farm Show this week at Woodstock, Ontario, and if there was one thing in on the minds of farmers it was the approaching...
View ArticleEarly Frost Bites into Corn Crop in Eastern Ontario
The Ontario corn crop’s “slow stagger to maturity” wasn’t helped any last night by an early frost. Lows of -2 degrees C and colder were reported across a large swath of eastern Ontario this morning,...
View ArticleCorn School: The “Push Test”— Will Corn Stay Standing Until Harvest?
With corn harvest around the corner, the “push test” can help growers assess plant health and whether lodging will be a problem. As part of this episode of the Corn School, Dieter Schwarz, market...
View ArticleCorn School: Early Frost and Goss’s Wilt May Take Bite Out of Yields
With reports of the first corn fields being harvested in Manitoba, producers will soon find out the extent to which early frost and Goss’s Wilt reduced yields. Both frost and Goss’s cause premature...
View ArticleCorn School: Selecting Hybrids for Silage Production
In the cattle industry, interest in new corn varieties stems from a desire to increase efficiency and production, whether utilized as a grain source, ensiled or left standing for winter grazing....
View ArticleCorn School: Nail Down the Crop Plan, Then Stick to It
“When the land is dry, it’s no longer about planning, it’s about execution — it’s our Super Bowl.” That’s a quote from Pride Seeds’ Ken Currah, who caught up with Bernard Tobin for the above Corn...
View ArticleCorn School: Setting Your Planter For the Right Seed Size
With corn planting season around the corner, the annual routine of getting planting units ready for a new growing season is well underway. The planter setup and calibration process should account for...
View ArticleSoybean School West: Chasing Moisture and Waiting for the Soil to be “Fit”...
Soil conditions in the heart of the soybean growing area on the eastern prairies have been dry this spring, leading to questions about planting deeper than normal to ensure the seed has access to...
View ArticleCorn School: Ready, Set, Whoa!
Is your planter ready to roll? Corn planting season will soon be here for growers in Ontario and Western Canada. While it’s been a cool spring in Ontario, an early melt in Western Canada meant some...
View ArticleCorn School: Assessing Frost Damage & Keeping Track of Growth Stage
We’re 72 hours out from the late May frost that occurred across much of Ontario, and farmers are busy scouting corn fields for damage. Thankfully, most farmers and crop scouts are already seeing green...
View ArticleSoybean School: Making the After-Frost Replant Call
Soybeans can handle slightly colder temps than corn, but their exposed growing point means that frost damage can be far deadlier and permanent. That seems to be the case across much of Ontario, as...
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