Wet weather has really put winter wheat in a hard place for farmers in parts of Ontario. For starters, it pushed the seeding date back and secondly a large portion of it is sitting in some very wet conditions, conditions that can be very problematic for growth and development. So what does that mean for the state of the crop in general, and just how big of a crop is it anyways?
In this episode of the Wheat School, Peter Johnson of OMAFRA gives us an estimate of what went into the ground in Ontario as well as an update on the state of this years winter wheat.
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