Extreme Weather Resources

Farm & Food Care Ontario's inventory of links and resources to help crops, horticulture, and livestock producers better manage extremes in weather.

 

Prevention/Preparation for Low Water Situations

• Managing Weather Risks - OMAFRA Resources Pages - Horticulture

• How To Prepare for Irrigation During Water Shortages, OMAFRA

• Weather Risks: Strategies to Mitigate the Risk of Insufficient Moisture

• Agricorp: Risk Management Program

• Agricorp: Production Insurance

• Managing Forages in Dry Years, OMAFRA

 

Response Tactics for Low Water Situations

Irrigation

• Monitoring Soil Moisture to Improve Irrigation Decisions, OMAFRA

• Water Efficiency and Conservation Practices for Irrigation, OMAFRA

• Blog post: How long do I run my drip lines?

• Permits to Take Water Information

• Ontario Low Water Response - Working Together to Manage Low Water

Horticulture

• Irrigation Scheduling For Tomatoes - Water Budget Approach, OMAFRA

• Effects of Dry Conditions on the Tomato Plant, OMAFRA

• Impact of Dry Conditions on Potato Yield, OMAFRA

Fruit Crops

• Irrigation Scheduling For Fruit Crops, OMAFRA

• Harvest Decision Calculator, OMAFRA

Field Crops

• Using moisture-stressed corn as livestock feed, OMAFRA

• Impact of Dry Conditions on Soybeans, Field Crop News

• Agronomy Guide: Drought Injury in Field Corn, OMAFRA, pg. 39

Sod

• Tips for Sod Farmers during dry weather, OMAFRA

• Sod Production, OMAFRA

Pasture

• Conserving Pasture Production, OMAFRA

• Fall Pasture Management Following a Dry Summer, OMAFRA

• Coping with Poor Hay Crop Quality, OMAFRA

 

Forage

• Forage Production Ontario, Forage Network

• Double Cropping Fall Rye for Extra Forage, OMAFRA

• Forage Sorghum-Sudan Grass, OMAFRA

• Cover Crops: Sorghum Sudan, OMAFRA

• Soybeans as a Forage Crop, OMAFRA

• Managing Forages in Dry Years, OMAFRA

• Fall Cutting of Alfalfa, OMAFRA

 

Feed Management and Alternative Feeds for Beef Cattle

• Beef Farming, OMAFRA

• Using Corn Damaged by Dry Weather for Silage, Field Crop News

• Coping with Hay Shortages in Beef Cow Wintering Rations, OMAFRA

• Alternative Forages and Sample Wintering Rations for Beef Cattle, OMAFRA

• Now is the Time to Prevent Feed Shortages, Canadian Cattlemen

• Fence-line and TMR Feeding Systems for Beef Cattle

• Corn Stalklage and Wheat Straw in Wintering Beef Cow Diets, Farms.com

• Pregnant Checking in a Drought Year With High Cull Cow Prices, Beef Cattle Research Council

• Distillers Grains and Soybean Hulls - A Complementary Combination for Cattle Performance, OMAFRA

• Using Corn Stover as Low Cost Pasture for Beef Cattle, OMAFRA

• Stretching Your Hay Supply With Straw, Canadian Cattlemen

• Potential Dangers of Nitrate Poisoning and Silo Gas Poisoning When Using Dry Weather Damaged Corn, OMAFRA

 

Livestock Management Concerns

• Managing Heat Stress in Fed Cattle

• Water Requirements of Livestock

• Livestock Access to Watercourses

• Avoid Production Losses in Swine Due to Heat Stress, OMAFRA

• Heat Stress in Commercial Layers, OMAFRA