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Rebecca Hannam

CSC Asian program a success

Nicole Mackellar

For India and agriculture

Edith Munro

Ag imports unfazed by political turmoil

Edith Munro

Seed corn production

Jeanine Moyer

A hybrid of two farming cultures

Kim Waalderbos

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Barbara Selkirk

Cool tools increase efficiency

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The Big Picture: Farm Women find CommonGround

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Marketing your crop well is nearly as important as growing your crop well. This section of the Ontario Grain Farmer magazine provides important market intelligence and insight that helps improve your bottom line.

Ag imports unfazed by political turmoil
By: Edith Munro
May/June 2012

A YEAR OF political turmoil has devastated some aspects of Egypt’s economy – notably tourism, which is down more than 85% – but imports of key Read More

For India and agriculture
By: Edith Munro
May/June 2012

HALF A CENTURY has transformed India from a poster child for hunger – in the 1950s everyone knew about “the starving millions in India” – to an Read More

2012 fertilizer outlook
By: Casper Kaastra, General Manager, Agronomy Company of Canada
January 2012

ONTARIO FARMERS HEADING to the fields this spring will undoubtedly find fertilizer input costs higher than what they were a year ago. Ongoing strong Read More

It's not just soybeans
By: Edith Munro
January 2012

TOUR A CHINESE corn farm and it’s easy to think that what you see — hardworking rural families living in simple houses and tilling an acre or two Read More

2012 US commodity market outlook
By: Cal Whewell, Risk Management Consultant, FC Stone
January 2012

PLEASE NOTE THAT due to the publication schedule, this outlook of the commodity markets was written based on market intelligence from late-November, Read More

Cause or coincidence?
By: Edith Munro
January 2012

THE SHARP RUN-UP in commodity prices during 2007 and 2008 set off another round of the ongoing debate over speculators and their role in price Read More

Finding the silver lining
By: Kim Waalderbos
January 2012

GRAIN FARMERS SHOULD look to 2012 with optimism. Despite the economic volatility that is expected to continue into the new year buoyed by Europe’s Read More

Marketing freedom for the West
By: Erin Fletcher
December 2011

AS EVERY CANADIAN grain farmer is aware, the Government of Canada has initiated the transition plan to remove the Canadian Wheat Board’s single desk Read More

When carbon practices pay cash
By: Amy Petherick
December 2011

CARBON IS SOLD by farmers worldwide in the form of food, fuel and fibre. But in some places, farmers are also marketing the environmental benefits Read More

Grain terminals: international gateways for Ontario grains
By: Jeanine Moyer
November 2011

IT’S NOT OFTEN grain terminals make the news, but in 2011 Parrish and Heimbecker’s Hamilton Harbour terminal built a new grain handling facility and Read More

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