yield tour field report 2024 GREAT ONTARIO YIELD TOUR FIELD OBSERVATIONS If the end to the growing season is good, the Great Ontario Yield Tour is predicting the 2024 Ontario soybean yield will be 54.12 bu/ac—a NEW RECORD high surpassing the previous record of 53 bu/ac set last year. If the prediction is correct, it will be the best soybean crop ever produced in Ontario! The Great Ontario Yield Tour is also predicting the 2024 Ontario corn yield will be 194.75 bu/ac, which would be the third largest crop in the past five years. “Soybeans amazed us,” said Henry Prinzen, CCA, Ontario Agronomist with Maizex Seeds, during his presentation at the final event in Woodstock, Ont. “In many ways, the crop had significantly less mould than 2023 and exceptionally high pod counts, even in water-logged counties.” The tour experts report the Ontario corn crop is clean, but there is a touch of tar spot in Southwestern Ontario and Western Bean Cutworm from Central to Eastern Ontario. Too many tip backs from moisture stress and variability, with a plant population at a NEW RECORD high of 277 plants, but kernels around and length came up short in 2024. The tour experts also report that the soybean crop is clean with a touch of white mould in Southwestern Ontario, but the east is void of the disease versus last year. The soybean plant population is also at a record high, with 3,830 more plants, and higher pods per plant by one at 41 compared to last year. BF Lots of branching. High pod per plant count. Super clean soybeans in Eastern Ontario. Very little white mould. Purdue’s Shaun Casteel was impressed. Below average soybean yields in Middlesex and Elgin counties. Yield Tour Scout Team Experts: Moe Agostino, Farms.com Risk Management; Henry Prinzen, Maizex Seeds; Zach Chanyi, Taurus Ag; and Anderson Carrare, Taurus Ag.
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