Irrigation system assessments
Rebecca Shortt, Engineer – Water Quantity, OMAFRA – Simcoe Are you concerned that your irrigation system is not applying enough… Continue Reading Irrigation system assessments
Information for commercial vegetable production in Ontario
Rebecca Shortt, Engineer – Water Quantity, OMAFRA – Simcoe Are you concerned that your irrigation system is not applying enough… Continue Reading Irrigation system assessments
Rebecca Shortt, Engineer – Water Quantity, OMAFRA – Simcoe This blog post will show the 2 steps to roughly calculate… Continue Reading How long do I run my drip lines?
Rebecca Shortt, Engineer – Water Quantity, OMAFRA – Simcoe The month of May and the first 2 weeks of June… Continue Reading Irrigation update
For processing tomato producers interested in helping out a grad student with an interest in the tomato industry (something that… Continue Reading Processing tomato production – short survey
Excerpts taken from ONvegetables in the Grower, April 2014. A full pdf version of this article is available at 2014_Infosheet_Phytophthora-in-irrigation-water Phytophthora blight… Continue Reading The Potential for Spread of Phytophthora Blight of Cucurbits and Peppers in Irrigation Water
From ONvegetables in The Grower, February 2014 By Deanna Nemeth, Nutrient Management Program Lead (Horticulture)/ OMAF and MRA Fruit and… Continue Reading Managing wash water to protect your farm stream
By Rebecca Shortt, OMAF/MRA Water Quantity Engineer Are you considering improving your on-farm water use efficiency? Do you know what practices… Continue Reading Two practices to improve on-farm water use efficiency
Christoph Kessel, Nutrition (Horticulture) – Program Lead, OMAF & MRA Keeping fertigated nitrate-nitrogen in the crop rooting zone is an… Continue Reading Nitrate-nitrogen fertigation strategies
Anne Verhallen, Soil Management Specialist – Horticulture, OMAFRA, Ridgetown Yes, sands get compacted… Tips for managing soil compaction… Rules… Continue Reading Tomatoes and soil compaction?
