The spring planting surge continues across Ontario and Wheat Pete has a full report on the buzz from the fields, including early planting progress, disease alerts, and a few head-scratching situations.
In this episode of Wheat Pete’s Word, your host Peter Johnson looks to get a handle on early-planted soybeans; talks triticale success for livestock producers; confirms the presence of stripe rust in Ontario; and tackles troublesome cereals diseases.
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SUMMARY- Ontario’s spring surge: excellent seeding progress overall, but clay soils still lagging behind.
- U.S. soybean pace jumps ahead: 48% planted, well above the five-year average of 37%.
- Early soybean sulphur trials wanted: Wheat Pete seeks growers’ trial data on early-planted beans.
- Frost worries mostly eased: soybeans and corn holding strong despite cold nights last week.
- Sticky soybean scenario in Lambton: soybeans are stuck! Unexplained stand issues in heavy clays despite no crusting.
- Heat canker showing up in Minnesota: black soils and intense sun cause tissue damage in spring cereals.
- Fusarium tools update: Field Prophet app gone; a web tool now provides multiple crop risk maps. Check out the link.
- Scab alert in U.S. wheat belt: Ohio and surrounding areas at high fusarium risk during pollination.
- Rye and triticale success story: livestock growers benefiting from early harvest and double cropping.
- Snow mould headache in northern Ontario: heavy damage in triticale; sulphur treatments being explored.
- Stripe rust overwintered in Ontario: Localized cases found; scout fields with lush fall growth urgently. Check out Agronomy Monday on RealAg Radio.
- Mildew management in wet winter wheat fields: lower canopy infections unlikely to cause major yield loss yet.
- Barley yellow dwarf hitting winter barley: severe cases prompting some fields to be taken out. Check out Agronomy Monday on RealAg Radio.
- Late-applied N+S on wheat via drone: minimal volatilization risk on high CEC soils, says Pete.
- Clethodim caution in winter canola: possible crop injury prompts warning to switch to safer fop herbicides.
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