Recent cool weather in southwestern Ontario has slowed development of some of the area's staple crops, but for one of them that's a good thing.
Agronomist Peter Johnson says cool weather in June has delayed flowering in soybeans and ripening in wheat meaning wheat kernels are still growing.
"Every day adds four bushels per acre in yield so this is a very big deal as we lengthen grain fill," he says. "We expect the soybeans to start flowering and move through their growth stages quickly this time of year, they've been very slow to come to flower."
Johnson says where field conditions were good at planting the corn is doing well, but it has suffered in areas that were too wet when they were planted.
