Information for commercial vegetable production in Ontario
The US National Institute of Food and Agriculture’s Specialty Crop Research Initiative have been holding a 14-session webinar series on plant… Continue Reading Irrigation water quality and plant disease webinars
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?
By Christine Card, Food Safety Team Lead – Agriculture Water quality varies depending on the water source. While a best… Continue Reading On Farm Food Safety: Your Business Advantage Water Quality
Iowa State University has a new publication describing a system to catch, store and reuse rainwater for irrigation in high tunnels.… Continue Reading New resource for rainwater catchment system for high tunnel irrigation
At the OPVG District 1 Tomato Day in February of this year, there was a lot of interest in the… Continue Reading Irrigation water quality survey – volunteers needed
Anne Verhallen, Soil Management Specialist, OMAFRA, Ridgetown It’s been quite a few years since the last spring with this amount… Continue Reading Getting water off fields
Anne Verhallen, Soil Management Specialist, OMAFRA, Ridgetown Recent heavy rain storms have had many growers scrambling to get excess water… Continue Reading Standing water = soil problems