Terry Daynard

@IronLady72 You are 100% right. This was a photo and caption in the CBC feature article. I hope their customers like to dine on pigweed and lamb's quarters.

@TerryDaynard There are local Mennonite gardens that are larger, better kept and likely feed about as many people for dinner every day. LOL. These field to fork concept places are selling you an experience not the food -- just another version of theatre.

Interesting local story: Tiny food supply. Likely very expensive. Weeds sure look healthy. Unfortunately, it reinforces a common image of the CBC. cbc.ca/news/canada/ki…

@WoodyVa2 @AgFreeAgent If you want to eat in Stratford, ON, try Demetre's. Low cost, great food, nice environment. I suspect the food comes from main-stream agriculture.

@AgFreeAgent @TerryDaynard Location is big. They are an hours drive off a pile of people.

@Lyonseed @PetkerFarm Canadian growers might be especially interested in the former Warwick Seeds (owner Ernie Warwick), Blenheim, ON. Warwick was especially close to Dr. Norman Neal, then corn breeder at U Wisconsin. Many Warwick hybrids had Wisconsin breeding. (See, also, tdaynard.com/2020/02/15/the…)

@Lyonseed @PetkerFarm Here's a history of the Ontario Corn Committee. It dates back to 1937. tdaynard.com/2020/04/01/the…

Definitely for old-timers: This is the list of corn hybrids recommended by the Ontario Corn Committee for 1961. I knew a few of them. Yield potential and stalk quality were terrible. Most of these had US origins. (Source: OCC records preserved by the late David Morris.)

@Lyonseed @PetkerFarm I wrote about the history of PAG in tdaynard.com/2019/10/25/a-b…. Illinois farmer, Lester Pfister, started an inbred breeding program in 1925. It later became a cooperative, Pfister Associated Growers - for 24 yrs beginning in 1943. I once grew PAG SX42 and SX47. Now part of Corteva.

@PetkerFarm @TerryDaynard Pride 5 was pretty much a standard. I remember some of the PAG #'s. Dad was a PAG dealer for many years.

@PetkerFarm The information is available but it would likely require a fair amount of work to pull it all together. Prior to late 1950s (not sure of exact year), recommendations were based only on the Ontario Corn Committee's collective opinion. Performance testing was in place by 1961.

@TerryDaynard That's an awesome chart... Is there access to the year over year recs?

@kevinki16180099 @AdamJPfeffer I've not heard of stories from Southern Ontario like these dreadful recollections from Michigan, but I assume Southern Ontario had severe forest fires too, including in pre-European-settlement centuries.

@TerryDaynard @AdamJPfeffer project.geo.msu.edu/geogmich/fires…

I think I’m checking all of the boxes with today’s activities. Canola harvest in forest fire smoke checks a lot of the boxes. Worst smoke this area has ever experienced to my memory.

@AdamJPfeffer It looks like I missed by a few years. The intense darkness in eastern Canada caused by Alberta forest fires was on Sept 24, 1950. bulletin.cmos.ca/the-great-smok…

@AdamJPfeffer You are probably too young to recall that day in the late 1940s when an AB forest fire caused so much smoke and darkness in Southern Ontario that most birds, including on-farm chicken flocks, bedded down for the night, in mid day. That's the worst I remember.

@foundmyfitness There is NO robust scientific data that organic diets provide measurable health benefits over conventional ones, esp when it comes to pesticide exposure at dietary levels. Save your money. Big Organic Foods share.google/dZD8Mec1oNFT3v…

@IronLady72 @AdamJPfeffer I watched an "expert" explain today on CTV how forest-fire smoke was not much of a problem in days past. Probably not even mentionned on Instagram 😐

@TerryDaynard @AdamJPfeffer Always nice to be reminded there were important world events that occured before Tiktok.

Remember to scout for tar spot in your corn, especially in early-planted fields or those with disease history. Use the Crop Risk Tool for weather-based forecasting: buff.ly/G3z6DXt

@12thman76481378 There are some lovely views from that parking lot which sits atop the Niagara Escarpment - perhaps one of the prettiest parking lots in Canada - and free for use by visitors to the equally classy Juravinski Hospital.

@TerryDaynard Kinda looks like a regular Hamilton day….

View? from a Hamilton ON "Mountain" parking lot today. Without the forest-fire smoke, it would be a sunny overview of the city's downtown.

@islandviewag @KeithWells6 @5Leroux I temember ASRA well. A farm income/price support program in Quebec. The envy of farmers in other provinces during the 1980s/1990s. Part of a then QC govt strategy to make QC self sufficient in agriculture.

@KeithWells6 @5Leroux @TerryDaynard I recall hearing about ASRA. What was the purpose of it?

Ontario farmers may be interested in this summary of P, K and other soil test average values with the Mehlich extraction used in Quebec. Notice how much higher values are compared to the biocarbonate and ammonium acetate extract methods used in Ontario. irda.github.io/Analyses-de-so…

@islandviewag @AdamJPfeffer I just remember one really bad day. Unfortunately, I cannot remember the year - maybe about 1947? It was sure dark.

@TerryDaynard @AdamJPfeffer How long did it last Terry?

@Cathy_Lennon The first new one in 23 years?? That's a national embarrassment.

Congratulations to Parkhill’s Blue Lakes Premium Meats on your grand opening this week. Welcome news of a new federally inspected processing facility for beef and lamb — the first new one built in Canada since 2003! 🙌🏻 share.google/A4LatDooec82zQ…

@TedNordhaus @TheBTI "A belief that catastrophic framings...would result in strong public demand for climate action has further led the climate movement and its...allies in the media, academia and government to exaggerate...present day impacts of climate change. The...effort has abjectly failed."

"There is hubris on both sides of that divide. The climate movement remains far too confident that catastrophic framings of the issue will not only result in climate action but the sort of climate action that the movement has in mind. Geoengineering advocacy, meanwhile, simply assumes a level of technocratic competence that is nowhere to be found."