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Category: Wheat School - East
The Great Lakes Yield Enhancement Network (YEN) program for winter wheat has expanded from 43 farms in 2021 to 184 farms across Ontario and a growing number of U.S. states in 2024.In four short years, the program has identified key agronomic and management strategies that consistently drive higher yields for YEN grower participants. On this… Read More
It’s time to plant winter wheat and we’ve asked Peter “Wheat Pete” Johnson to give us his top five planting recommendations on this episode of RealAgriculture’s Wheat School.Planting date is at the top of Johnson’s tip list. When it comes to planting date there are no shortcuts, he says. Hitting that optimum window is essential… Read More
Wheat yield is made up of many yield components ranging from thousand kernel weight to head size and kernels per head. But when it comes to driving higher yields, all those components take a back seat to the number of heads per square metre.It’s the big data point emerging from three years of data from… Read More
When a field of winter gets knocked down, don’t count it out.RealAgriculture agronomist Peter Johnson says the 2022/23 crop is a perfect example of how winter wheat can absorb multiple agronomic and environmental blows and still get off the mat to deliver a big yield punch.On this episode of RealAgriculture Wheat School, Johnson wraps up… Read More
Ontario’s winter wheat crop has come through the winter in good condition and is packed with yield potential.But there is concern: a crop with big stem- and head-counts carries a much higher risk of lodging. To reduce this risk, growers will be looking to apply a plant growth regulator (PGR) to help the crop stand… Read More
In 2022, the top 20 growers in the Great Lakes Yield Enhancement Network (YEN) harvested 50 bu/ac more wheat than the bottom 20 growers in overall yield rankings.What’s really surprising, says RealAgriculture agronomist Peter Johnson, is that this gap exists despite there being only a five percent difference in yield potential between the two groups… Read More
Winter is a great time to recalibrate your approach to managing wheat diseases and applying fungicides.That’s the message Penn State University plant pathologist Alyssa Collins shared with agronomists attending the Ontario Certified Crop Advisors annual meeting earlier this month.It’s a dormant period for humans and also for fungi and plants, says Collins. “So we get… Read More
How can growers push wheat yields to new levels?That’s a question we asked many times on RealAgriculture Wheat School during 2022. Throughout the season wheat researchers, agronomists and growers weighed in offering insights from research sites and farms in eastern and western Canada. Here’s a look back at what we learned.On our first episode, Jeremy… Read More
Ontario set a new record for average winter wheat yield this year at 99.7 bu/ac.And as winter finally settles in on the province, RealAgriculture agronomist Peter “Wheat Pete” Johnson says conditions are ripe for the fall-planted crop to break more records in 2023. But Mother Nature will have a lot to say about that before… Read More