What is Mental Health?
*If you or anyone you know is struggling with their mental health, please reach out to a health professional or the CMHA Farmer Wellness...
Late Season Corn Health
This year certainly has come with new and unique challenges in crop production. We started under drought conditions during planting which...
Soybean Crop Update - July 9, 2021
As we struggle through a very wet week, we have arrived at a critical junction for the soybean crop. Most soybean fields are in early...
Insect Update
Early-mid season crop pests we’ve been seeing We are definitely seeing effects of losing neonic seed treatments. I have been finding...
Winter Wheat Update
What's going on in wheat fields? Well, the sun peaked out for a bit on the weekend. But I don’t think we’re quite out of the woods yet....
Strip-Till Series: Fertilizer and Cover Crops Part 3 of 3
By Alyssa Gingras Applying Fertilizer In a strip-till system, most, if not all, of the fertilizer gets placed in the strips. If using...
Stip-Till Series: Timing, Tools and Depth
Part 2 of 3 Should I use coulters or shanks? First questions to ask when choosing equipment is: what are my soil characteristics and what...
Strip-Till Series: Pros and Cons
Part 1 of 3 Photo courtesy of Jake Munroe, Soil Fertility Specialist for OMAFRA What does it look like? Strip-till is a minimum tillage...
Winter Wheat in Wellington
What I've seen over the past couple weeks The snow disappearing fast, accompanied with several days of warm weather has lead to some good...
Wheat and Soybean Update July 2018
It seems there is quite a range of growing conditions across the region. Ranging from full drought with heat stress to good moisture and...
