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Rainfall Graph May 1- Sep 30 2007 by Walt Vermunt on 10/22/2007 Please click on the above PDF link to view graph. While rainfall varied f… CHU Graph May 1- Sep 30 2007 by Walt Vermunt on 10/22/2007 Please click on the above PDF link to view graph. Accumulated Heat Units f… Crop Progress Report for the Seaforth area for week of July 23rd, 2007 by Jim Barclay on 07/27/2007 Wheat: Wheat harvest is well on the way, and initial yield reports are… Bean Update for July 19/07 by Rick Vandewalle on 07/19/2007 The dry bean crop in the province looks tremendous despite the below normal… OMAF Crop Update by Jim Barclay on 07/16/2007 Winter Cereals Harvest has begun! Yields range from slightly below average …

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Please click on the above PDF link to view graph.

Accumulated Heat Units for the locations measured in Ontario (and Michigan) were very close to the normal measured over several (30) years. Although we had a few hot spells, crops were affected more by the lack of rainfall than the intensity and duration of the heat waves we experienced this summer. Yield monitors showed the variation within fields indicating that the potential for excellent yield was there, only to be limited by the available moisture.
 
In reading the graph note that it is set up as a "stacked" bar graph with each month's data stacked on the previous month for a location. The lines that cross the bar indicate the "normal" expected for the location as of the month end. Accumulation measured and normals expected are colour co-ordinated on the legend at the bottom of the graph.