Author: Quality Seeds

The price of fertilizer is at record highs this year. There is some indication that fertilizer availability may be an issue at times during the growing season. Because of these two factors, we will need to extract the most efficient use of various …

The price of fertilizer is at record highs this year. There is some indication that fertilizer availability may be an issue at times during the growing season. Because of these two factors, we will need to extract the most efficient use of various …

Over the last few years, hairy chinch bug has become a more prominent pest in some sod fields. Adults are very small, black and white in colour with reddish-brown legs and two pairs of wings. Both adults and nymphs have piercing-sucking mouth parts.

The first frosts in the fall present a potential risk from prussic acid (hydrocyanic acid) poisoning with sorghum, sorghum-sudan and sudangrass. There is much greater risk in pasture and green-chop situations than there is when feeding fully …

With reduced forage yields and inventories as a result of this year’s drought, many farmers will cut alfalfa this fall because they need the feed. While cutting alfalfa in the fall is often practiced in Ontario, it does sometimes create some …

Serious About Sod Fall 2020 looks at cover crop selection in nursery sod, controlling poa in new seedlings, and increasing winter-hardiness of sod.