Agronomy Geeks West — Ep. 9: What’s Hurting Canola Yield Potential The Most?
What costs the canola crop the most in yield each year? Lack of fertility? Harvest losses? Spoilage in storage? Swath timing? The question isn’t actually entirely fair, as we can’t necessarily answer...
View ArticleAgronomy Geeks West — Ep. 10: Get More Out of Your Input Dollars & Tips for...
Contrary to what it looks like outside my window right now, it is officially spring. Eventually the snow will recede and the warmth will return and the ice and frost will disappear just long enough to...
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Agronomy Geeks West — Ep. 11: Nitrogen Management for Corn in the North
Adopting warm season crops, like corn, in cool season areas, like Western Canada, takes time, patience and adaptation. The first crucial step is access to shorter season varieties, which we’ve got,...
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Agronomy Geeks Ontario — Ep. 6: High Speed Corn Planting & Waiting ‘Til Soil...
Soil worked too wet in the fall could be a nightmare this spring As the snow finally melts in Ontario, cash crop farmers have a lot to do in a short window. There’s still plenty of corn out there and...
View ArticleAgronomy Geeks West, Ep. 12 — Don’t P in the Lake & Other Good Rules of Thumb
If you cannot see the embedded player above, click here to hear this interview. Managing for nitrogen losses in crop production is important, absolutely, but N isn’t the only nutrient at risk of being...
View ArticleAgronomy Geeks Ontario — Ep. 7: All You Need to Know About Using Fluency
As Ontario farmers head to the field to plant corn and soybeans, they’ll get their first opportunity to use Fluency Agent, the new Bayer CropScience seed lubricant replacing talc and graphite. Over the...
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Agronomy Geeks West — Ep.13: All You Didn’t Want to Know about Resistance...
Evidence of blackleg infection If seeding early is the Robertson screw driver of the disease management tool box, genetic resistance is the giant sledge hammer — effective, reliable, easy to use. But...
View ArticleAgronomy Geeks Ontario —Ep. 8: Tillage Strategies for a Wet Spring
As the cool, wet spring drags on in Ontario, many farmers are wrestling with whether they have time for tillage or should they just plant as soon as the soil is fit. In this episode of the Agronomy...
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Agronomy Geeks Ontario — Ep. 9: When to Switch To Lower CHU Hybrids
As May ticks away, farmers in Ontario continue to wrestle with difficult planting conditions. In this episode of the Agronomy Geeks Ontario podcast, Bernard Tobin and Syngenta agronomic sales manager...
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Agronomy Geeks West — Ep. 14: Spread the (Variety) Love, Not the Clubroot
Do you know when to scout for the tell-tale clubroot galls? I promise at some point to jump off this Rotation Bandwagon and start talking about something else agronomy-related, but for now, humour me...
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Agronomy Geeks West — Ep. 15: Cutworms and Wireworms and Spraying, Oh My!
Wireworm in wheat. Photo credit: Richard Marsh, 2014 The first few weeks’ of crop growth are critical for two things — one, evaluating your seeding or planting pass; and, two, providing timely...
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Agronomy Geeks Ontario — Ep. 11: Fending off Fungicide Resistance, Plus New...
The disease pressure landscape changes as the season progresses and from year to year, but there are always the endemic threats that farmers have to manage for. Part of the disease scouting process...
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Agronomy Geeks West — Ep.16: The Ins and Outs of Intercropping
Flax and lentils as an intercrop I’ve seen my share of unintentional intercrop — lentils and mustard that just HAD to grow together, I guess (I call that one ‘lustard’) — but did you know there may be...
View ArticleAgronomy Geeks West — Ep. 17: Who Wants a 50 lb/acre N Credit?
Here’s a fun question: what nitrogen recommendations do you follow? Do you vary it by crop type or by field, ie. do you have a “canola blend”? Do you use tried-and-true removal rates compared against a...
View ArticleOntario Agronomy Geeks — Ep. 12: Putting Data to Work on the Farm
Farmers have been collecting data since the first yield maps appeared 20 to 30 years ago. The promise then was that farmers would be able to turn data into management decisions that would benefit their...
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Agronomy Geeks Ontario — Ep. 13: What We’re Learning About Northern Corn Leaf...
Northern Corn Leaf Blight lesions Just like there are many strains of the common cold and the flu, plant diseases can be caused by “races” of the same pathogen. Northern corn leaf blight is one disease...
View ArticleAgronomy Geeks West — Ep. 19: How Long it Takes To Make Soil (Hint: Too Long)
If you’ve noticed soil getting a whole lot more attention lately, it’s for good reason. Not only are scientists beginning to unlock many of the mysteries of what lies beneath, but agriculture has also...
View ArticleAgronomy Geeks West — Ep. 20: Looking Ahead by Taking Stock: Research...
What do you think is the largest opportunity for agronomic research in Western Canada? What are the biggest holdups? What’s the capacity now and going forward? These are big questions, and questions...
View ArticleAgronomy Geeks West — Ep. 21: Defining “Intermediate Resistance” to Clubroot,...
Crop rotation remains the most powerful tool in the fight against clubroot disease in Western Canadian canola fields, even with new resistant varieties being brought to market. As part of this episode...
View ArticleAgronomy Geeks Ontario — Ep. 15: Agronomy Proof Your Crop Plan
You can’t change the weather and you can’t influence crop prices, but you can agronomy proof your crop plan, says Deb Campbell, agronomist with Agronomy Advantage. As winter ever so slowly releases its...
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