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Soil erosion is the leading cause of soil degradation in potato producing areas of New Brunswick. But a study completed last year shows that spring run-off is only part of the soil loss problem.
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The Ontario Soil and Crop Improvement Association has forged a unique partnership with Ontario’s Certified Crop Advisors (CCAs) to make the Farmland Health Check-Up available for farmers in the Lake Erie and Lake St. Clair watersheds and the Lake Huron southeast shores watershed.
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About 40 per cent of Essex County's usual corn and soybean crop is not planted or it's in fields so swamped farmers will have to replant, according to Essex County Federation of Agriculture past president Mark Balkwill.
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Farmers in the Norfolk sand plain region of Ontario are seeing improved crop yields, thanks to technology that is new to the area. Subsurface drip irrigation irrigates crops via polyethylene drip tubes installed a foot or more underground. This low-pressure, high-efficiency system eliminates surface water evaporation, and reduces the incidence of weeds and disease. And it can increase crop yields.
That’s what was discovered in 2012 when Blake Farms, located south of Simcoe, Ont., completed a small trial comparing non-irrigated, overhead irrigation and subsurface drip irrigation on corn at their farm.
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