Features

Brazil’s case for sustainability

June 2019 0

GLOBALLY, YOU CAN’T talk about soybeans and corn without talking about Brazil. Soybean exports from this vibrant South American country of 210 million people were virtually nothing 40 years ago. But now it’s the world’s [Read more]

Features

Features

Assessing success

SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE INITIATIVE

June 2019 0

IN MARCH, I had the opportunity to travel to Warsaw, Poland to attend the Sustainable Agriculture Initiative (SAI) Platform Community of Practice meeting. The SAI Platform is a major food and drink industry initiative which [Read more]

Features

New leadership

GRAIN GROWERS OF CANADA

June 2019 0

IT’S BEEN A long time since she worked at Calgary’s River Café, but Erin Gowriluk thinks that her background there helps her as the new executive director of the Grain Growers of Canada (GGC). “Now [Read more]

Features

Genetically modified wheat?

BREAKTHROUGH DEVELOPMENT FOR CELIACS

June 2019 0

ONE OF THE public’s long-time raps against genetically modified crops is that their main benefits have accrued to farmers, not consumers. But an international breakthrough in wheat breeding aimed at helping celiac disease sufferers could [Read more]

Features

A new venture

ADDING VALUE TO THE LOCAL MARKET

June 2019 0

IF RON HORST and Tim Roth have learned anything in the past year, it’s that operating a small-scale soybean crush facility isn’t as straight forward as it might seem. The long-time friends began producing soy [Read more]

Features

Expanding E15 sales

U.S. CHANGING THE RULES

June 2019 0

A CHANGE IN ethanol regulations proposed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is moving the U.S. a step closer to making E15 blended fuels available year-round. The proposal, to lift the ban on E15 [Read more]

Also in this issue

Also in this issue

Gene editing

CANADIAN BARRIERS AND PERCEPTIONS

June 2019 0

GENE-EDITING TECHNOLOGY has the potential to revolutionize crop and animal development globally. For Canadian researchers, however, the federal government’s ambiguous and slow-moving regulatory system is preventing new agricultural products from reaching farmers and consumers alike. [Read more]

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Growing momentum

LESSONS FROM THE 2019 MARCH CLASSIC

June 2019 0

THE 2019 MARCH CLASSIC was attended by a record number of Grain Farmers of Ontario farmer-members and grain industry representatives. More than 900 people filled the London Convention Centre for a full day of inspiring [Read more]

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Conservation agriculture

A PROFILE OF A MOROCCAN FARMER

June 2019 0

AZIZ ZINE EL ABIDINE knows he’s lucky. He can read, he’s highly educated and he farms 80 times more land than the average Moroccan farmer. The decisions he makes on his nearly 2,000 acre farm are [Read more]

Flipbook

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Web special

Field observations

Agronomy
July 2019 0
Update for July 19, 2019 HEAT AND MOISTURE have helped develop the corn and soybean crops this week. Winter wheat harvest has begun in the province. Insect pressures are building. Keep scouting as disease and [Read more]

Biological inputs

Production
July 2019 0
CAN BIOLOGICAL INPUTS help increase farm profitability and sustainability? According to academic and ministry experts, the answer is – maybe. More specifically, they say new microbial inputs might play a positive role if used in [Read more]

From the CEO’s desk

  • Trade War Fund

    June 2019 0
    ACCORDING TO THE analysts, futures, input costs, land prices, and market unpredictability are all lining up to create what could be a perfect storm for Ontario grain farmers; and unlike our neighbours to the south [Read more]

GrainTALK Update

  • GrainTALK for June/July 2019

    June 2019 0
    FROM THE CHAIR A Q&A with Grain Farmers of Ontario chair, Markus Haerle. In continuation of last issue’s Ask The Chair, we focus on Trade, a federal election ask. Trade issues continue to impact our farm [Read more]

Cropside

  • Cropside: Starter fertilizer

    June 2019 0
    IT’S A COMMON question from strip tillers: is there still response to starter fertilizer on the corn planter after delivering good fertility in the strip with the strip tiller? For simplicity, it would be ideal [Read more]

Business Side

  • Business side: Farm advisors

    June 2019 0
    (J.M) WHAT ROLES CAN FARM ADVISORS HAVE AS PART OF A FARM MANAGEMENT TEAM? (C.C.) Farm advisors offer a specific area of expertise that can compliment an internal farm management team. Many advisors specialize in [Read more]

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