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The Great Ontario Yield Tour predicts a record-breaking soybean crop

The Great Ontario Yield Tour predicts a record-breaking soybean crop
Aug 29, 2024
By Denise Faguy
Assistant Editor, North American Content, Farms.com

Soybean and corn crops are expected to be among the best ever in Ontario.

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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 3rd 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, Ontario. “In many ways, the crop had significantly less mould than 2023 and exceptionally high pod counts, even in water-logged counties. These high pod counts and consistent yield estimates across the board in Ontario have set us up for a new record soybean crop at 54.12 bu/ac.”

Concerning the corn crop, Prinzen explained, “The 2024 corn crop had loads of potential, record stands, and visual potential for long ears. This potential was hampered by excessive rainfall and more heat stress than we expected during pollination. The tip back on corn was greater than anticipated. Southwestern Ontario was full of variability and late-planted fields from the very wet spring we had. Overall, Ontario still has a very strong corn crop, especially in some counties that often struggle, such as Renfrew, Niagara, and Haldimand.

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. The experts say there are too many tip backs from moisture stress and variability, with a plant population at a NEW RECORD high by 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 vs. last year.

The soybean plant population is also at a record high, with 3,830 plants more, and pods per plant were higher by one vs. last year.

The weather looks non-threatening through the end of September, so the tour experts are adding kernel and pod weight, and seed sizes are growing with no threat of frost.

The 2024 Great Ontario Yield Tour took place August 12 to 23, 2024, and saw Farms.com Risk Management Chief Commodity Strategist Moe Agostino, Maizex’s Henry Prinzen, and many scouts visiting farms across Ontario to check on potential corn and soybean yields.

Below are the yield predictions by region and by county.

REGIONCORNSOY
All OF ONTARIO194.7554.12
South Western Ontario192.853.66
South Eastern Ontario204.7957.81
Western Ontario200.751.9
Eastern Ontario189.458.97
Central Ontario179.950.51

 

REGIONCORNSOY
Essex19060
Chatham-Kent20263
Lambton18849
Middlesex19153
Elgin18745
Haldimand-Norfolk19954
Niagara20456
Brant20160
Hamilton-Wentworth19459
Oxford21063
Waterloo21355
Perth20352
Huron20551
Bruce20156
Grey18549
Wellington20752
Halton17446
Peel18246
Dufferin18050
Simcoe18954
Lennox & Addington18455
Frontenac17352
Lanark18358
Leeds & Grenville18259
Ottawa19461
Stormont, Dundas & Glengarry19164
Prescott & Russell18753
Renfrew19661
York18653
Durham18052
Kawartha Lakes16842
Peterborough19153
Northumberland18855
Prince Edward17853
Hastings16847

 

Watch the video below to learn how Prinzen developed the estimates for the great ontario Yield Tour.




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