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After impatiently waiting for an opportunity to make significant progress with this year’s planting, a window of dry weather in late June allowed most Ontario farmers the chance to finish planting. Still, there remain significant pockets throughout the province where planting is significantly delayed. Even after Agricorp extended the final planting date for corn in area A, B and C until June 17th, this still won’t allow for some producers to finish planting corn. Other areas

It has been an extremely wet and cool spring in Ontario this year. For those of us who don’t farm, that’s been inconvenient. The mosquitos are horrific. The grass gets too long before you can mow it. There have been fewer pleasant days to sit outside. We watch the weekend forecast to see if perhaps rain will wreck our plans. However, for those that do farm, this is extremely stressful and has the potential to at least reduce crop yields and at worst, to prevent the planting o