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Vomitoxin: What to do - FarmersForum.com
Nov 5, 2018 · If vomitoxin levels are under 3 parts per million, you’re likely just fine. Many elevators pay full price for corn up to that level. As of Oct. 24, Great Lakes Grains price discounts started at 3.1-4 ppm, costing farmers $0.25 a bushel, increasing linearly to a $1.52 discount at 8 ppm, and flat rejecting any corn above 8 ppm.
What is vomitoxin? - FarmersForum.com
Nov 5, 2018 · Vomitoxin is a type of mycotoxin, a broad category of toxic chemicals that moulds produce. Vomitoxin gets its name from its results. At high levels, it causes animals to vomit and it is especially a problem in hogs. Sows are especially sensitive to vomitoxin levels in their feed.
OMAFRA tips to deal with vomitoxin in corn | FarmersForum.com
Nov 5, 2018 · With many farmers facing exceptionally high vomitoxin levels, OMAFRA offers some few key things to remember when it comes to harvesting and storing an infected crop. • Don’t mix low toxin and high toxin crops. Livestock producers, particularly hog farmers, need the cleanest corn and should prioritize it for storage.
3,000 farmers now hit with high-vomitoxin corn - FarmersForum.com
Jan 30, 2019 · Some of Ontario’s vomitoxin-ridden corn has started to move into overseas markets, but the closing of the St. Lawrence Seaway on Dec. 31 sealed off until spring. Southwestern Ontario has been grappling with the toxic byproduct of a corn mould since harvest began. Last year’s harvest was one of Ontario’s worst-ever cases of it.
Corn rejected due to Vomitoxin levels, farmers say
Jan 14, 2019 · CARDINAL — Vomitoxin, for the most part, passed by Eastern Ontario. But some farmers got whacked with the horror that haunts Ontario’s corn harvest. Cash crop farmer Dean Foster, in Prince Edward County, is particularly up a creek.
Vomitoxin: Where are the labs? - FarmersForum.com
Nov 5, 2018 · There are four main tests for vomitoxin levels. • Near-infrared light: The test is very quick but measures kernel damage not toxin. • Lateral flow strips: Fast and effective and inserted into a commercial scanner but can give false positives and negatives. Most elevators use this test.
Horrow show: vomitoxin in corn hitting “unprecedented levels” in …
Nov 5, 2018 · By Connor Lynch LUCAN — Heavy rainfall in August that boosted the soybean crop may well have doomed significant portions of Western Ontario’s corn. A toxin produced by mould in wet corn has many growe
EASTERN ONTARIO: Vomitoxin dominates grain farmers’ meetings
Feb 8, 2019 · By Tom Collins and Connor Lynch. Vomitoxin continues to have an impact on Eastern Ontario farmers, even in areas where the toxin hasn’t been found, as all three Grain Farmers of Ontario’s (GFO) Eastern and East-Central district meetings earlier this month included questions and concerns about the dreaded toxin.
WESTERN ONTARIO: Soybeans yielding well as vomitoxin hangs …
Nov 8, 2018 · After a difficult planting season and a consistently wet year for much of the region, some soybean yields are remarkable but corn is plagued by vomitoxin. Soybeans for some were a bin-buster. But not at Kent Bridge where elevator-operator Daniel VanDeVelde, who runs Thompson’s Elevator, said that as of Oct. 29, soybean harvest was about 95 ...
WESTERN ONTARIO: Good corn yields, but no bin buster
Dec 4, 2023 · Vomitoxin — also known as ‘DON’ — is a byproduct of gibberella mould. Corn is discounted when testing shows DON levels in excess of 3 parts per million. AGRIS Coop agronomist Dale Cowan said the presence of DON this year is “nowhere near as bad” as it was in 2018 when record discounts were applied to the Southwestern Ontario crop.