What’s Growing ON? – Episode 5
Episode 5: Most Crop Per Drop In this episode, Kristy speaks with Rebecca Shortt, Water Quantity Engineer, who shares tips… Continue Reading What’s Growing ON? – Episode 5
Information for commercial vegetable production in Ontario
Episode 5: Most Crop Per Drop In this episode, Kristy speaks with Rebecca Shortt, Water Quantity Engineer, who shares tips… Continue Reading What’s Growing ON? – Episode 5
Jennifer Jarvis, OMAFRA In 2016, many areas of the province saw very warm and dry conditions, creating challenges for horticulture… Continue Reading Do you have a water contingency plan?
From https://farmsmartconference.com/, this is targetted at field crop producers, but may be of interest to vegetable producers interested in subsurface… Continue Reading Subsurface Drip Irrigation for Field Crops Tour
The Grower is reporting that due to the extremely dry growing season, the MOECC, supported by OMAFRA, has agreed to… Continue Reading Temporary water permits available for Ontario irrigators
Farmers experiencing dry weather challenges can find feed, production and management information at OMAFRA. Visit ontario.ca/agweatherissues or contact the Agricultural… Continue Reading If you’re still looking for rain…
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
Anne Verhallen, OMAFRA Soil Management Specialist – Horticulture After heavy rains and wet soil conditions, questions come up about nitrogen.… Continue Reading Is the Nitrogen Still There?
The program is out for Southwest Crop Diagnostic Days 2015, July 8-9 at Ridgetown Campus. Hitting the Goldilocks Spot –… Continue Reading Southwest Crop Diagnostic Days 2015