Cereal Crops - Barley, Oats, Wheat

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• General
• Budgeting, Marketing, and Crop Uses
• Growth and Development
• Tillage and Planting
• Variety Selection
• Harvest
• Fertility
• Diseases
• Insects
• Weeds

What is NEW in Cereals

• 2009 Performance Trials for Winter Wheat (html) (pdf)
• Will Fusarium Be A Problem in The 2009 Spring Wheat Crop
• Wheat - Pay Attention to Detail! March 2009
• 2009 Field Crop Budgets (Publication 60)
  • 2009 Crop Comparison Summary Table for Selected Field Crops ($/acre)
• 2009 Performance Trials for Spring Cereal Crops ( html ) ( pdf )
• Variety Performance Trials

General

• Agronomy Guide, Publication 811, Order this publication
• Are You Conducting On-Farm Trials On Your Farm This Season?
• Cover Crops
• Field Crop Production, Best Management Practices (Order No. BMP02) Order publication
• Field Crop Protection Guide (Publication 812)
  • Field Crop Protection Guide Supplement 2008 (Publication 812S)
• Field Scouting and On-Farm Trials
• Help Us Learn! June 2002
• Introduction to Organic Farming (Order No. 06-103)
• Keeping Good Spray Records, May 2007
• No Holds Barred!! March 2008
• OSCIA and OMAFRA Partner to Assist Growers to Conduct On-Farm Trials
• Planning a Crop Rotation, June 2006
• What’s NEW With Wheat? Sept 2006
• Wheat - Pay Attention to Detail! , March 2009

Budgeting, Marketing, and Crop Uses

• CAIS - Canadian Agricultural Income Stabilization Program
• Ontario Enterprise Budgets 2008
  • Barley Northern Ontario (xls) (html)
  • Barley Southern Ontario (xls) (html)
  • Oats Northern Ontario (xls) (html)
  • Oats Southern Ontario (xls) (html)
  • Soft Winter Wheat (xls) (html)
  • Soft Winter Wheat - No-Till (xls) (html)
  • Hard Red Winter Wheat (xls) (html)
  • Hard Red Winter Wheat - No-Till (xls) (html)
  • Hard Red Spring Wheat (xls) (html)
  • Organic Barley ( xls ) ( html )
  • Organic Oats ( xls ) ( html )
  • Organic Spelt ( xls ) ( html )
  • Organic Winter Wheat ( xls ) ( html )
• 2009 Field Crop Budgets (Publication 60)
  • 2009 Crop Comparison Summary Table for Selected Field Crops ($/acre)
• “Economics of Spring Wheat Versus Barley” Project, Nov 2006
• Guide To Custom Farmwork and Short-Term Equipment Rental
• Organic Crop Production, March 2007
• Farming Organically, March 2009
• Straw for Sale - What Is It Worth? June 2007
• Looking for a Change? Consider Organic, March 2005
• Production and Marketing of Milling Oats in Ontario (Order No. 98-017)

Growth and Development

• Assessing Winter Wheat Stands
• Be Alert for Frost Injury in Wheat! May 2008
• Frost Injury in Wheat, May 2006
• Frost Injury in Wheat? May 2007
  
• Wheat - Pay Attention to Detail! March 2009
• Wheat Headed? Check for Frost Injury! May 2006

Tillage and Planting

• Aerial Seeding - Risks & Realities, September 2004
• Crop Rotation - The Key to Organic Farming, November 2002
• Dealing with Straw, July-Aug 2001
• For the Would-Be Winter Wheat Grower - Not All Is Lost! Nov 2006
• Frost Seeding Cereals March 2005
  • Frost Seeding: December or March?? November 2004
• Steps for Successful Cereal Frost Seeding, March 2004
• Have Wheat, Need Tillage, How Much, Oct 2002
• No-Till: Making it Work (Best Management Practices) (Order No. BMP11) Order this publication
• Ontario Seed Laboratories Accredited by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency
• Planting
• Planting WHEAT for PROFIT!! Sept 2005
• Seed By Weight, Not Volume, March 2003
• Soil Compaction Management: Trying to Get Specific, Jan 2003
• Targeting the Right Wheat Acres! Sept 2008
• Tillage
• Tillage and Rotation Impacts on Soil Quality, March 2007
• Unplanted Treated Wheat Seed: DANG! Nov 2006
• WWW - "What's With Wheat"! Sept 2003

Variety Selection

• Fall 2008 - Spr 2009
  • 2009 Performance Trials for Winter Wheat ( html ) ( pdf )
  • 2009 Performance Trials for Spring Cereal Crops ( html ) ( pdf )
  • 2008 Performance Trials for Winter Wheat ( html ) ( pdf )
  • Variety Performance Trials - Winter Wheat
    • Yields over past 1-5 years for Areas I, II, III
    • Ontario Winter Wheat Varietal Characteristics
• Does Tillage Affect Variety Selection in Spring Wheat? Jan 2004
• Fusarium in My Wheat Seed? September 2004
• Opportunities In Oats?! Feb 2002
• Variety Selection
• What is Spelt? Sept 2003

Fertility

• Agrotain? Jan 2002
• Copper on Winter Wheat Project, Sept 2008
• Cover Crops and Nitrogen - Can I Capture Some Nitrogen for Next Spring? August 2008
• Does Wet Weather Equal Lost Nitrogen? June 2004
• Don’t Guess…..Soil Test! Sept 2005
• Fertility
• How Little Fertilizer Can You Get Away With for Wheat? Sept 2008
• Manganese Deficiency in Winter Wheat, May 2008
• Micronutrient Deficiencies in Winter Wheat, May 2006
• Nitrogen Source for Wheat—Urea, 28%, Sulphur? March 2006
• Nutrient Value of Wheat Straw, May 2007
• OMAFRA Fertilizer Recommendation Tables
• Plan Your Fertilizer Program! Nov 2001
• Price Ratios:? What Are They, and Why Do We Care? March 2008
• Soil Management and Fertilizer Use
• Soil Fertility Handbook (Publication 611)
• Urea Treated With Agrotain on Spring Wheat, Jan 2004

  Manure

• Available Nutrients for Manure from Various Livestock Types Nov 2005
• Comparing the Value of Various Manure Types, March 2007
• Does Manure Have a Place in the Sulphur Debate? June 2006
• Fine-Tuning Manure Application, March 2002
• Maximizing Manure Value! Jan 2002
• Manure Nitrogen for Wheat, March 2006

Harvest

• Approximate Test Weights and Moisture Contents for Trade of Commercial Grains
• Are Your Grain Bins Ready for Winter? Jan 2002
• Combine Cleaning Procedure, Sept 2008
• Drying and Storing Wheat
• Dryng Tough Wheat in 2008 , July 2008
• Fall Rye for Silage or Grazing Nov 2005
• Harvest and Storage
• Harvesting Cereals For Quality, June 2004
• Harvest for Quality, July 2005
• Storing Grain in Bins
• Storing Wheat through Four Seasons? July 2006

Diseases

• Crop Rotation - Best Way of Keeping Diseases Off Balance! March 2001
• Integrated Pest Management Options: Cereals
• Minor Use Program
• Other Problems
• Scouting Calendar

Seedling Diseases

• Fusarium Seedling Blight
• Seedling Diseases
  • Wheat Seed Treatments a Must! Oct 2006

Root Diseases

• Eyespot
• Oat Cyst Nematode
• Pythium Root Rot
• Take-All

Leaf and Stem Diseases

• Fungicides on Wheat - How do They Compare? May 2008
• Warmer Weather May Increase Wheat Leaf Diseases? May 2008
• Cephalosporium Stripe in Wheat, June 2006
• Net Blotch (Barley)
• Physiological Leaf Spot in Wheat, May 2006
• Powdery Mildew
• Rust
  • Wheat Leaf Rust and Powdery Mildew , June 2006
  • Oat Leaf Rust
  • Leaf and Stem Rust
  • New Wheat Leaf Rust Races Increasing in Ontario, June 2008
  • Wheat Leaf Rust, May 2008
  • Common Barberry And European Buckthorn Alternate Hosts Of Cereal Rust Diseases (Order No. 91-009)
• Septoria
• Septoria (Oats)
• Spot Blotch (Barley)
• Snow Moulds
• Tan Spot
• Virus
  • And Now for Viruses in Wheat! May 2008
  • Barley Yellow Dwarf - Tale of Two Viruses, June 2007
  • Barley Yellow Dwarf Virus
  • Could Yellowing of Wheat Be Due to Viruses? May 2005
  • Mosaic Virus
  • Verifying Wheat Viruses a Challenge, May 2006
  • Wheat Viruses -What to Look for, May 2007
  • Yellow Dwarf of Cereals (Order No. 87-074)
  • “Yellow Wheat” – Possibly Barley Yellow Dwarf, May 2007

Head Diseases

• Dwarf and Common Bunt
  • Dwarf Bunt, Sept 2002
• Ergot
• Fusarium Head Blight
  • Fusarium Head Blight Update , July 2008
  • Should I Worry About Late Season Fusarium Infection in My Wheat? July 2008
  • Are you Prepared for Fusarium Head Blight? May 2008
  • Fungicide Days to Harvest or Pre-harvest Intevals (PHI) are Important! June 2008
  • The Weather Innovation Network DONcast Maps now Available, May 2007
  • Be Alert for Fusarium and Other Diseases in Wheat? May 2006
  • Fusarium Head Blight in Spring Wheat - Project, Jan 2003
  • Fusarium in My Wheat Seed? September 2004
  • New Fusarium Facts! Sept 2002
  • Nozzle Setup for Folicur Application, May 2006
  • Just InTime Basics for Spraying Folicur or Proline, June 2008
  • Tips for Comparing On-Farm Fungicide Trials, July 2007
  • Will Fusarium be a Problem in the 2006 Spring Wheat Crop? June 2006
  • Will Fusarium Be A Problem In The 2009 Spring Wheat Crop?June 2009
  • What Did We Learn in 2007 About Fungicides on Spring Wheat? Nov 2007
• Loose Smut
• Mildew on Wheat Seed - What and Why? August 2008
  

Insects

| Root Feeding Insects | Leaf Feeding Insects |

• Integrated Pest Management Options: Cereals

Root Feeding Insects

• European Chafer
  • Grubs Damage Very Common this Spring, May 2008
• Wireworm
  • What Is Your Wireworm Risk? April 2003

Leaf Feeding Insects

• Armyworm
  • Fall Armyworm
  • True Armyworm
  • Begin Scouting Spring Wheat in Eastern/Central Ontario for Armyworms, July 2008
  • Battling Armyworms - Nozzles & Yield Loss Potential, June 2008
  • Attack of the Armyworm, June 2008
  • True Armyworm Found , June 2008
  • Coming Soon - Armyworm and Black Cutworm Feeding, May 2008
• Cereal Aphid
  • Cereal Aphids - Are They a Concern?, May 2008
• Cereal Leaf Beetle
• Hessian Fly
• Insect Management for Farm-Stored Grain
• Stored Grain Insects
• Scouting Calendar- Cereal Crops
• Will Winter Cutworm Show Up This Year? Nov 2008

Weeds

• Guide to Weed Control (Publication 75 - Order No. 75)
  • Chapter 8 - Cereal Crops
  • Cereal Herbicide Rating Table (Table 8-1) (PDF 30 kb)
• Ammonium Sulphate (AMS) and Glyphosate, Sept 2002
• Advantages of Fall Weed Control, Sept 2003
• Avoid Getting Burned by Herbicide Residues, June 2005
• Common Chickweed (Stellaria media), November 2004
  • Chickweed Control with Cereal Herbicides, May 2008
  • Mouse-Eared Chickweed Control with Cereal Herbicides, May 2008
    
  • Field Violet Control with Cereal Herbicides, May 2008
    
  • Wild Carrot Control with Cereal Herbicides, May 2008
• Go Fly a Kite! May 2008
• Guidelines for Fall Weed Control, Sept 2005
• Herbicide Injury
• How Much Wind Makes it Too Windy to Spray? May 2005
• Mechanical Weed Control, March 2004
• Ontario Weeds - Weed Gallery
• Organic Weed Control: Many Little Hammers! Jan 2002
• Pre-harvest Glyphosate On Cereal Crops, June 2004
• Problem Weeds
• Weed Control
• What's New in Weed Control?
• Wheat Stubble Weeds and Red Clover, Sept 2009
• "Weird Weeds" Questions and Answers, May 2007
• Wind Idiots, May 2007
• Basics of Weed Management
• Application Technology
• Precautions With All Pesticides

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