Chris Gillard

A select group from Soil and Crop club at Dave Van Damme farm. Everyone got to ride the harvester.

Jon and Tony Debruyn talking to Crop and Soils Club about their farm operation and Pioneer seed dealership

A tour of UofG dry bean breeding program this afternoon. Led by Peter Pauls

Navy bean performance trial at full flower. Ted finally could apply the fungicide pass this morning

High potato leafhopper populations at Ridgetown for the past week. As many as 12 nymphs per trifoliate leaf. Many are tiny and freshly hatched. But populations very low at Exeter and Blyth.

I wonder what it tastes like?

Dynasty kidney beans flowering at Ridgetown Campus. Planted May 23

First flowers on navy beans planted May 14 at the Huron Research Station

Second round of tulip flowers this year

Dry bean performance trials planted May 26, loving the recent rain.

Anyone else with navy beans up?

Planting 2800HU soy performance trial on May 11. That is a record for us. New students Jada and Kayleigh smiling on this sunny day

On to strip till soys. This is goof proof. Right???

Strip till corn is done. Not sure yet if it is better but it sure is faster.

Winter canola bolting. On the ridge road just east of Blenheim

@drbeans1 @Jocelynlsmith Happy to see our grad student Josee Kelly speaking at the AGM for Ontario Bean Producers today.

We need summer students. They can email [email protected] call 519-784-7110 or tweet @drbeans1

Revised navy bean variety trial Exeter 2022 with harvestability corrected. Happy Holidays!

Minor class dry bean variety trial at Exeter 2022. Some big differences in yield within a class due to drought. Thanks to Twitterless Ted for this work.