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Ontario Wheat Yields and Reports. Post your yields and thoughts, pictures and videos on the harvest here.

I was at a field day yesterday with BASF and the wheat is almost ready to go north of London.

We will post a few videos once we have had time to edit them a little.

Joe

 

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Permalink Reply by Tom Cox on July 22, 2011 at 4:44am

A couple days into wheat harvest here between Brantford and Hamilton. Yields and moistures quite variable.  We have had no measureable precip in a month so actually expected poorer yields. Some of the high management fields are seeing best ever yields where the minimal input ones are 20-30 bushels less.  The combination of higher n plus fungicides seems to have really added yield, whether that was the extra N because of the early heavy rains and n loss or the fungicides we don't know.

Quality is very good test weights up in the 65-66 pounds per bushel range on the best stuff, at this point there is no fusarium in any of the samples we've seen. A lot of the straw is still a bit green so the baling is having to trail a bit behind the combines.

 

Corn and beans looking pretty tough.

Permalink Reply by Mackenna Roth on July 22, 2011 at 8:39am

Good Afternoon Everyone,

Here is a video we took yesterday out in St. Thomas harvesting solf red winter wheat.

Permalink Reply by OntAG Admin on July 22, 2011 at 9:24am
@ScoutingFields (Jeff Steiner)
3:12pm via Twitter for BlackBerry®

First wheat plot this summer. 25R56 - 113 bushels/ac at 13.5%.One load weighed in at 405 kg/hl. http://yfrog.com/h0ywqzpj

Permalink Reply by OntAG Admin on July 27, 2011 at 10:46am

@mattymetzger2:09pm via TweetDeck (Matty Metzger)

 

Working on the last field, 2 hours and wheat harvest is in the bins

 

Permalink Reply by OntAG Admin on July 27, 2011 at 2:45pm
 

On Twitter

@ScoutingFields  Just weighed off another plot. 3 Pioneer varieties for Galten farms.107,113,120 bush/ac! Tile drains,fertility,seed selection and management

 

@FS_PARTNERS FSP Mike in Mitchell's update today: Overall yields looking good for wheat- 95 bushels + on many fields; quality- good, moisture- high

 

@waynekblack: 80bu/ac here. No incrop herbicide & barespots incl.

 

@AgriNewsHound Reports of wheat yields in south Bruce 100+ bu/ac Great to hear #ontag

Permalink Reply by Joe Dales on July 27, 2011 at 7:02pm

Wheat harvest down by Chatham.

 

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Permalink Reply by OntAG Admin on August 2, 2011 at 11:17am
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ScoutingFields  (Jeff Steiner)
#Stouffville. Emit=92.1, 25R56=92.8, 25R47=96.8/ Rain forecasted for C ont tonite.
yfrog.com/h75iyfmj


Permalink Reply by OntAG Admin on August 2, 2011 at 11:20am

Wheat Harvest 2011: Blaney Grain Farms

Permalink Reply by Joe Dales on August 24, 2011 at 3:54pm

The Ontario Variety Trial Data is now posted.

http://www.gocereals.ca/variety_trial.php

 

 

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