Quinte Soil & Crop Newsletter November 2010

Quinte Soil & Crop News

November 2010
For Hastings/Lennox & Addington, Northumberland, and Prince Edward Soil & Crop Members

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OMAFRA, OSCIA	Alpine Plant Food - Brad King	BASF - Ian Page
Country Farm Seeds - Harold Huff	County Automation - Dan Kempers	County Farm Centre - Doug West
Dekalb - Jason MacCuaig	Hyland Seeds - Craig Carson	Maizex Seeds - Chad Mangan
Pickseed Canada - Lyle Gallagher	Precision Planting - Gary Parks	Quality Seeds - Doug Baker
Royal Bank in Peterborough	Terratec Environmental	Tri-County Agromart

AREA NEWS and Annual Meetings OSCIA News and Crop Talk links below

December 9 Northumberland SCIA Annual Meeting, 10 am, Codrington Community Centre
With review of summer activities -- Forage Masters, BBQ, Soybean Competition, Weather Recording, EFP, etc.
Speakers:
Laura Sharpe, Pioneer - "What we learned in 2010 and what's ahead in 2011"
Ian Inglis, John Ernewein Ltd. - "Grain Bin Management".
Membership fee for the year 2011 is $15. Dinner tickets are $12 each

Weather - SCIA members - link to separate page
Coming Events - link to separate page
Environmental Farm Plan Workshops on OSCIA website
Growing Your Farm Profits Workshops on OSCIA website
Nitrogen Rates on Established Switchgrass is the Regional Project the Quinte Region SCIA for 2009-2011. Co-operators are Kurt Vanclief, Ameliasburg and Ron Toonders, Williamsburg under the guidance of Scott Banks, OMAFRA

OSCIA NEWS PDF file(445 kb)

Message from the President
2010 OSCIA Annual Meeting Speakers
Seed Bytes - New Online 'Seed Locator'
Farm Business Mgmt Benchmarking Study
Benefits for OSCIA Members
Local Annual Meetings
Promote Your Local Association
2010 OSGA Annual Meeting
2011 Canadian Farm Show

CROP TALK – By OMAFRA Soil & Crop Specialists PDF file(327 kb)

Can I Apply Nitrogen In The Fall?
Herbicide Resistant Weeds On The Rise In Eastern Ontario
Crop Rotation and No-till Improve Yields and Soil Health
Developing Real World Use of Agriculture Biomass Crops
Opportunities To Brand "Ontario Hay" In Export Markets
Anthracnose - A Manageable Issue In Dry Beans
Nitrogen Deficiency and Carbon:Nitrogen Ratios of Organic Amendments

The Quinte SCIA Executive,
President Geoff Townsend 705-653-2361
Sec-Treas Henry Nyman 613-399-3429
1st Vice Shawn Donnan 613-395-1387
Provincial Director Max Kaiser 613-354-0100
Regional Communication Coordinator Neil Moore 705-324-2594
Other Directors: Justin Dorland, Doug Young, Rick Terpstra, Lloyd Crowe, Charlene Whattam, Stan Meeks, Jim McComb, Mark Slack, and Scott Banks