Jason Van Maanen CCA-ON

Agronomist in the Ontario Ag Retail Industry. UofG and AALP Class 9 alumni. Addicted to agriculture, baseball, curling and smoking meat. Tweets are my own

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Great day for the 75th RIdgetown Santa Claus parade. Great job from Susan and Matt putting together the @SWAgromart entry. Get out and support your local parade.

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@OAgC24 is there no live streaming for today’s sessions for online registrants?

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A great day to take off a @SWAgromart soybean plot in SW Chatham Kent ahead of tomorrows rain with cooperator @Ochee_C and @RyanSnobelen from @PRIDESeeds. Excellent yields across the plot with an average of 68.0 bu/ac

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All ready for the parade at the 169th Highgate Fair. @SWAgromart

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And that’s a wrap! The last @SWAgromart soybean plot of 2023 is in the ground and the books! Great conditions to get some @PRIDESeeds and @NKSeeds in the ground. Thanks to cooperator @Ochee_C and @murdoch_steph for making the day go quick.

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Spring has sprung. Tracey keeping the line moving this morning at @SWAG_Ridgetown @SWAgromart

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Sweet corn under plastic is off to a great start in Chatham Kent. Roughly 90 days to go!

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This is what 1 tonne of potatoes looks like! Thank you so much to superstore for all of your help with logistics! We are ready to make our big donation today to the Chatham Outreach for Hunger!

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Our pile is growing! This Thursday Southwest Agromart, Triple P Farms, and Blonde Farms will be donating 200 Christmas Dinners to Chatham Outreach for Hunger!

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Great day for the Ridgetown Santa Claus parade. Great job by Matt and crew to shine up the “Corn Cob” for the show. @SWAgromart @agromartgroup

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And so it begins. Plots are off and running in Chatham-Kent. @SWAgromart #harvest2022

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First good rain all summer. Got 1.5” today on the Ridge. Only 0.2” less then all of June.

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Sweet corn harvest is underway in Chatham Kent. Ontario grown corn in stores now! @RougeRiverFarms @SWAgromart #harvest2022 @VisitCK

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Spent the “cooler” parts of the days this week getting the finishing touches on the @SWAgromart seed demo plots. This summer, hope to get actual producers out to see some @PRIDESeeds and @NKSeeds hybrids and varieties as well as some @BASFAgSolutions fungicide demos.

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Getting some @PRIDESeeds signage up on some @SWAgromart demo plots today with some help from @chapple_mc and crew.

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The RIdgetown @SWAgromart crew cleans up pretty good! Out for the RIdgetown Canada Day parade. #CanadaDay2022

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A misty, not quite rainy day but the last @SWAgromart @PRIDESeeds and @NKSeeds corn plot is in. Thanks to @chapple_mc and Triple P Farms for the assist.

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Got the first @SWAgromart corn plot of the season in yestaerday. Great planting conditions (soil temp at 17C) for some great @PRIDESeeds and @NKSeeds hybrids. Thanks to the best “vac man” in the business, @chapple_mc for the help

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@GregCKL “Think fast rabbit!”

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Dec 16, ground surprisingly “fit”, most hybrids sort of upright, 16C, 70 km/h wind and snow forecast for Saturday. Sounds like the perfect day to take off the last corn plot of 2021. @SWAgromart @PRIDESeeds @NKSeedsCanada