Today is forecast to be Colder than yesterday.

-9 °C

Feels Like -23 °C

75% Humidity

N

3.2

Wind from SW
Gusts 3.2 km/h

Overcast

Today

High -16 | Low -24 °C

20% Chance of Precip.

Yesterday

High -12 | Low -23 °C

Precip. 0.0mm

Weather Radar

39.05 °N , 77.47 °W

Pressure	1041 hPa
Visibility	24.1 kilometers
Dew Point	-26 °C
Rainfall	0 mm
UV	0.0 out of 12

Latest Weather News

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• Corn School: Does wet soil need more nitrogen? The rain keeps falling in Ontario and all the water-logged soils make it tough to get a good read on how much nitrogen is available to the province’s corn crop. In this edition of RealAgriculture Corn School, agronomist Peter Johnson discusses whether corn acres need supplemental nitrogen and how much they ...
• Drew Lerner’s summer forecast for Canada and the midwest United States The weather feels like it has been the story of 2017 across North America. Many areas have felt the extremes of mother nature this growing season — too hot, too cold, too dry, too wet, too windy, depending on where you are. There was significant rain in Ontario last week, parts ...
• Corn School: Getting to the bottom of rootless corn Dan Foster has seen a lot of agronomic head scratchers in his career, but he witnessed a first in a cornfield near Sarnia, Ontario this spring. On this episode of Real Agriculture Corn School, Foster, Pride Seeds market development agronomist based at Chatham, takes you to a field with rootless corn ...
• Soybean School: Late-planted crop playing catch up It’s been a rugged start for Ontario’s soybean crop. With cool, wet growing conditions, late planting, insect feeding and soil crusting, many growers find themselves squarely behind the eight ball. According to OMAFRA soybean specialist Horst Bohner, most soybeans have been planted but some growers are still struggling to get seed ...
• Corn School: Cool weather calls for more sidedress nitrogen Ontario’s cool, wet spring not only delayed planting, but also put the brakes on nitrogen mineralization, limiting the nutrient’s availability to the growing corn crop. According to OMAFRA pre-sidedress nitrate testing (PSNT) survey results released this week, corn growers are looking at the lowest rates of available nitrogen since the survey ...
• Volatile times — how innovation and climate change impact risk management programs Crop yields continue to increase across North America, but so do yield and market volatility. According to Dr. Alan Ker, director of the University of Guelph’s Institute for the Advanced Study of Food and Agricultural Policy, increased volatility is something farmers will have to get used to as the impact of ...
• Corn School: Cold and wet means less available nitrogen What a difference a year makes. In 2016, Ontario’s cold and dry spring conditions produced plenty of available nitrogen for the emerging corn crop. But when you fast-forward to 2017, those cold soils are now waterlogged and the wet conditions mean there’s very little nitrogen available to the crop. The wet soil ...
• More rain means more soybeans for Ontario Ontario corn planting isn’t finished, but it’s probably done. With more rain sweeping across the province – and pushing total spring accumulation to record levels in many areas – it’s unlikely that farmers will be planting corn when things dry out, says Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs (OMAFRA) ...
• Canola School: Options for seeding canola in wet conditions For some farmers in some southern parts of Western Canada, seeding is starting to wrap up. But others are still have the challenge of getting last year’s crop off, all while trying to get this year’s crop in the ground. In this Canola School episode, we talk to Brittany Hennig, agronomy specialist for the ...
• Wheat School: Nitrogen stays put in cold, wet conditions It’s been cold and it’s been raining… and raining. Does your wheat crop need more nitrogen? The answer is no, according to agronomist Peter Johnson. In this edition of RealAgriculture Wheat School, Johnson says despite the weather growers who have already applied 120 to 130 pounds of nitrogen to fields should ...
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