Wheat Pete wishes he didn’t have to talk about safety but he has to. More farmers are telling him that they’ve had draw pins stolen. Make sure you do a circle check and check the pins before moving wagons — you could save a life.
Farmers also have to stay safe around grain bins. Pete shares a tale of a farmer who was cleaning the last of the wheat seed out of the bin to put in corn and got caught in the sweep auger. He’s going to be okay but it’s a long road to recovery. Rules must be set and followed — never go in the bin alone or when the sweep auger is on. It’s just not worth the risk.
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Summary
- Ontario Agricultural Conference registration is open. 3 locations: Kemptville, Ridgetown, and Waterloo, plus online
- Safety, safety, safety. Always check equipment before firing up the engine
- Sweep auger injuries happen! Have rules around bin safety and follow them. Never, ever do you go in a bin alone and never when the sweep auger is on
- Make sure loads are secured, too
- GMOs are approved in 32 countries in the world, up three
- Facts over fear. 51 years of growing GMOs
- Crop technology is making a difference in subsistence countries
- Glowing petunias!
- Double crop soybeans yields are very impressive
- ’23 planted winter wheat, harvested this summer, in went the beans, good yield, went back into wheat. What about disease?
- Cover crop oats that yielded a grain crop in southern Ontario
- 4 per cent over the 10-year average for heat units in 2024
- 274 bu/ac, 252 bu/ac farm averages coming in on corn
- Hog manure is magic
- 268 bu/ac vs sub 200 yield estimate?
- Test weight vs kernel counts
- Two applications of fungicide for tar spot don’t seem to pay
- Time for tillage talk!
- Big yields means lots of biomass
- Disc ripper bouncing along….spend some dollars on new points
- What about compaction
- 6″ of rain is equivalent to 680 short tons per acre? Not really, 64 pounds per acre more like
- Pounding rain does something to soil, but it’s not the weight of the water (maybe aggregate stability, velocity of the rain, etc)
- RTS in corn, is it worth it? Working the angle vs with the row
- Work that Glen Arnold has done at Ohio State, re: strip tillage and manure
- Erosion is a real thing
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