Quinte Soil & Crop Newsletter November 2011

Quinte Soil & Crop
Newsletter November 2011

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 Events NovQuinte11.pdf Same as the mailed version 289 kb
OSCIA News and Crop Talk links below

December 8 Northumberland SCIA Annual Meeting 10 am Codrington Community Centre, Speakers: Jim Callaghan and family milk 200 cows in the Lindsay area and farm 3000+ acres of land. He has recently built a biogas digester and will be talking about his interesting experiences with the project. Christine Brown, OMAFRA will be talking about cover crops and organic soil amendments to built soil quality. We will also reviewing the nitrogen application on soybeans project we ran this year.

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

Northumberland Bus Trip to Frank and Julia Hoftyzer July 20. Goats, solar panels and switchgrass trials were the highlight of this stop. Frank explains solar system; Underseeded switchgrass left vs direct seeded right:
Also included Kawartha Ethanol tour and visit to Jim Glenn's on hay marketing.

OSCIA NEWS PDF file(645 kb)

Message from the President
Canadian International Farm Show
Seed Bytes
Local Annual Meetings Update
Benefits for OSCIA Members Update
Attention Seed Growers
Ontario Regional Biomass Tours Breed Interest
OSCIA 2012 Annual Meeting Update

CROP TALK – By OMAFRA Soil & Crop Specialists PDF file(805 kb)

Evaluation of Phosphorus Fertilizer Recommendations For Corn In Ontario
Manure-Tackling the Frequently Asked Questions
Frost Seeding Forages-How to Plan Ahead For Success
Don't Ignore Phosphorus Needs of Canola
Introducing Web-Based Refuge Selector Tool
Biomass Getting Some Face Time
ESN® Controlled Release Fertilizer On Spring Wheat
Soil Test Your Hay Fields To Manage Phosphate & Potash Levels
Importance of Managing Perennial Weeds in the Fall: Quackgrass

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	Dale Ketcheson	613-477-1131
Regional Communication Coordinator	Neil Moore	705-324-2594
Other Directors: Justin Dorland, Doug Young, Rick Terpstra, Lloyd Crowe, Shane Smith, Stan Meeks, Jim McComb, Mark Slack, and Scott Banks

Local Associations	Hastings/L&A	Northumberland	Prince Edward
President	Shawn Donnan	Justin Dorland	Rick Terpstra
Sec/Treas	Charlene Whattam	Doug Young	Henry Nyman