Canada: Ontario Crop Report – Week of May 30, 2024

It continues to be a frustrating spring through much of the province. Frequent precipitation has continued to cause delays in tillage, planting, and spraying in some areas, and weather earlier this week has shut down field work once again in many areas. However, with 3–5-day windows of good weather, many farmers have covered a lot of ground in a short time, especially on lighter soils that have avoided heavy rainfall. Farms on heavier clay soils continue to face difficulties, but there is still time to get crop in the ground. Wheat growth and development continues to be more advanced than normal, with most of the winter wheat in the province either close to or fully headed out. Overall, the crop continues to look good, and yield potential looks strong. There have been some incidentsof surfactant injury reported from T3 fungicides. Often the problem looks worsethan the yield loss that can occur. Physiological fleck (figure 1.) is alsoappearing in several fields, and the two can be ...