Hi everyone, We’re in the middle of yet another dry week. From looking at some of the weather stations, it seems like West Prince was the lucky area on Sunday night/Monday morning, getting 15-20 mm of rain. I had 6 mm in Kensington, while much of...
Hi everyone, I think most people are looking at the forecast hoping for rain, but the short-term forecast doesn’t look very promising. Many in West Prince were surprised with up to 40 mm of rain last Friday, but those total decreased as we move east across...
The rainfall on Sunday & Monday was most welcome, and hopefully more will come in the near future. While rainfall totals are quite variable across the province, it looks like most of the province got between 15 and 25 mm over the two days. I...
Thanks to everyone who came out this week to our Common Scab 101 AIM Winter Workshops. Special thanks to Dr. Claudia Goyer and Dr. Rick Peters from AAFC who shared their research results and expertise on common scab with growers and industry partners. Presentations from these...
Hi everyone, A somewhat shorter agronomy update today…just to get everyone up to speed. It’s been a week of broken weather, with variable rainfall across the province and more rain forecast for tomorrow. Temperatures are forecast to go up starting this weekend with a bit more sun,...
Hi everyone, It’s been a very nice start to September so far. Cooler at nights to spur the potato plants to ramp up tuber bulking. Sunny and warm during the day to keep photosynthesis happening. And enough dry weather to allow folks to get grain harvest...
Hi everyone, Thanks for those that have come out to our AIM tours the yesterday up west and today in East Prince. We had a great turnout at each of the first two tours, and we look forward to seeing lots of folks out in the...
Hi everyone, After much of the Island got snow (and a significant amount in the east), a couple of days of sun and plus temperatures is dealing with that white stuff pretty quickly. The long range forecast looks decidedly more spring-like…thankfully. I want to thank everyone who...
Hi everyone, Weird, wet weather for a couple of days has slowed down the momentum on planting this week. Hopefully most folks will be ready to go by tomorrow morning, if conditions are favourable. Looks like another chance of broken weather the first of next week…here’s...
Hi everyone. Sorry I missed sending an update last week….I was over in Europe on an AIM Working Group study tour in Belgium and England. Stay tuned for a report coming soon on what we saw on this trip, specifically on the topic of soil...