Sometimes while out standing in a field, you need a little more info on the bug you see on your soys, or on the amount of Nitrogen your field has from last years manure application. In this blog post, I am going to share some of my favorite go to OMAFRA websites for agronomic information - some more tools for the tool box.
http://bautebugblog.com
Tracey Baute is the Field Crop Entomologist-Program Lead with OMAFRA. She maintains this website and posts valuable up to date information on the bugs that are effecting Ontario's field crops. She provides info on threshold values, clear photos for identification and pesticide information. There is a easy to search archive of her blog entries for anything that you may have missed. You can also follow Tracey on Twitter.
www.gocorn.net
Everything to do with Ontario corn, and then some! This web site is maintained by Greg Stewart, OMAFRA Corn Specialist and sponsored by the Grain Farmers of Ontario.
Relevant information dealing with topics such as tillage, fertility, weed management and storage can be found under the index. The last five years of the Ontario corn yield trials can be found in the reports section.
My favorite section is the interactive tools section. Here you will find the Ontario Manure Nutrients Calculator. Ran in Excel, this spreadsheet is easy to use with your manure sample or with generic values for all types of livestock found in Ontario. Take some time and play around with the spreadsheet. It is an eye opener to see how changing the month of application from August to October or time till incorporated effects the amount of Nitrogen available to next years crop.
Another great interactive tool is the Corn Hybrid Selector. With this tool you can take the Ontario trials and select varieties to go head to head. It is a helpful tool while selecting what variety to grow on your farm.
www.weedpro75.com
Weed Pro 75 is the easy to use online version of OMAFRA Publication 75. Rather than paging thru pub 75, this website allows you to select crop, application method, weed spectrum and density thus giving you the most economic and cleanest field option. Based on current herbicide values and the most recent herbicide trial results, this website is up to date and very useful.
Of course, before you can use the Weed Pro 75 website, you need to know what weed you are trying to kill, so for that I use:
www.ontarioweeds.com
This website is the online version of OMAFRA's weed identification guide. Here you will find complete descriptions, detailed drawings and colour photos of most of Ontario's weeds. If you have a weed that is not listed, you can submit photos and a description to the site and OMAFRA staff will offer suggestions.
www.omafra.gov.on.ca/english/crops/cropline/index.html#audio
Here you can find the last few crop line recordings in downloadable Audio MP3 format. You can save them to your MP3 or IPhone for listening to in the field. Since the crop line only offers the latest recording when you call in, this gives you a chance to listen to any that you may have missed.
These are just a few of the sites I use through out the season. Let me know if you have any other helpful sites.
My next post will list my favorite non-OMAFRA sites.
http://bautebugblog.com
Tracey Baute is the Field Crop Entomologist-Program Lead with OMAFRA. She maintains this website and posts valuable up to date information on the bugs that are effecting Ontario's field crops. She provides info on threshold values, clear photos for identification and pesticide information. There is a easy to search archive of her blog entries for anything that you may have missed. You can also follow Tracey on Twitter.
www.gocorn.net
Everything to do with Ontario corn, and then some! This web site is maintained by Greg Stewart, OMAFRA Corn Specialist and sponsored by the Grain Farmers of Ontario.
Relevant information dealing with topics such as tillage, fertility, weed management and storage can be found under the index. The last five years of the Ontario corn yield trials can be found in the reports section.
My favorite section is the interactive tools section. Here you will find the Ontario Manure Nutrients Calculator. Ran in Excel, this spreadsheet is easy to use with your manure sample or with generic values for all types of livestock found in Ontario. Take some time and play around with the spreadsheet. It is an eye opener to see how changing the month of application from August to October or time till incorporated effects the amount of Nitrogen available to next years crop.
Another great interactive tool is the Corn Hybrid Selector. With this tool you can take the Ontario trials and select varieties to go head to head. It is a helpful tool while selecting what variety to grow on your farm.
www.weedpro75.com
Weed Pro 75 is the easy to use online version of OMAFRA Publication 75. Rather than paging thru pub 75, this website allows you to select crop, application method, weed spectrum and density thus giving you the most economic and cleanest field option. Based on current herbicide values and the most recent herbicide trial results, this website is up to date and very useful.
Of course, before you can use the Weed Pro 75 website, you need to know what weed you are trying to kill, so for that I use:
www.ontarioweeds.com
This website is the online version of OMAFRA's weed identification guide. Here you will find complete descriptions, detailed drawings and colour photos of most of Ontario's weeds. If you have a weed that is not listed, you can submit photos and a description to the site and OMAFRA staff will offer suggestions.
www.omafra.gov.on.ca/english/crops/cropline/index.html#audio
Here you can find the last few crop line recordings in downloadable Audio MP3 format. You can save them to your MP3 or IPhone for listening to in the field. Since the crop line only offers the latest recording when you call in, this gives you a chance to listen to any that you may have missed.
These are just a few of the sites I use through out the season. Let me know if you have any other helpful sites.
My next post will list my favorite non-OMAFRA sites.
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