Host of Wheat Pete's Word, Peter Johnson, is in the U.K. this week, combining family time with a packed Yield Enhancement Network tour schedule. In this episode of the Word, he shares agronomy updates from back home and across the pond — covering everything from unexpected nitrate levels to disease lessons from British wheat fields. Also hear his personal note on the passing of ag leader Peter Hannam.
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Here’s what you’ll hear in this episode:
- Remembering Peter Hannam — A tribute to an Ontario ag visionary and soybean champion
- Learning abroad: U.K. yields & soil types. Observations from record-yield wheat fields on chalk soils
- Family, sunshine, and slugs — Field tours, dry springs, and what Pete’s grandkids think of him
- What the heck are chalk soils?
- Regional crop update: it’s not all wet — From early corn in P.E.I. to patchy progress in Ontario
- PSNT surprises in manured fields — Some nitrate levels are way higher than expected
- Take that sample down to 12"
- Check out this Corn School on N sidedress timing and levels
- Weeds breaking through in IP soybeans. Pre-emerge herbicides aren't holding in high-pressure fields
- Replant decisions: seedcorn maggot vs. slugs? What to do if soy stands are thinned out
- Sow thistle control is a marathon
- Multi-year strategy needed, even with solid burndown tactics
- Grass regrowth in alfalfa stands — Why timothy lags, and how orchard grass could help your second cut
- Stripe rust explodes in Ontario — It’s fast-moving and tied to stress. Scout and spray accordingly!
- UK’s “yellow death” lessons on fungicide rates — Surprising insights on minimum effective doses for disease control
- Don’t overreact to tissue test results
- Context matters; wheat rarely shows copper deficiency in Ontario
