Hi everyone, From my phone calls with growers over the last couple of days, it sounds like most farms are either done planting or will finish right away. I understand that planting was a challenge on some farms due to excessive moisture or equipment issues, but...
A beautiful day in Prince Edward Island today, and lots of planters going across the province, trying to finish up. As a province, we’re definitely on the homeward stretch with regards to planting, with lots of variation from farm to farm. Planting conditions seem to...
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Hi everyone, It sounds like most farms are making rapid progress on planting this week, despite some rainfall here and there. From the folks we’ve been talking to, it sounds like we should be close to or at 50% of acres planted by the end of...
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. Another wet morning after a couple of good drying days. Thankfully, the forecast looks a bit more promising later this week for the next while. I there are quite a few folks that would like to be further along with grain planting so...
Good afternoon everyone, Wet weather the last couple of days has slowed down land preparation quite a bit…it has also slowed down my soil sampling plans for this week…but hopefully some drier weather later this week will help. Soil temps are still quite cool, but the...
SpudChat, a new podcast about the PEI potato industry, is now live! You can stream episodes directly from https://spudchat.buzzsprout.com/ or you can download wherever you regularly get your podcasts. It might take a few days for it to show up on all of the directories, but...
Good morning everyone, Was out delivering/pick up some seed for trials yesterday, and most farms I visited were busy moving/grading/cutting seed. It definitely appears that spring is ahead of schedule so far…but the weather the rest of April will dictate a lot. I have had reports from...