The Big Picture: Australian Year of the Farmer
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. this year in Australia is the Year of the Farmer. A full scale campaign has been launched by a group of farmers as well as members of the agricultural industry and the supply chain…
April 2012
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Future of Grain
- HIGHLIGHTING THE LATEST TECHNOLOGY IN GRAIN PRODUCTION AND UTILIZATION John Deere mobile weather John Deere Mobile Weather system is for private and commercial applicators needing precise weather information to make proper product application and other… -
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Stacking the benefits
- BIOLOGICALS: THE NEW FRONTIER OF PEST MANAGEMENT there are new pest management options on the horizon, thanks to the potential of biological products that can provide seemingly limitless options for control and suppression of weeds,… -
Cropside: Comparing ‘set-up’ residual herbicides for glyphosate tolerant corn
AGRONOMIC INFORMATION FROM ONTARIO'S CROP SPECIALISTS
- With François Tardif, Clarence Swanton, and Peter Sikkema ON AVERAGE THERE is a 4% yield advantage to incorporating a pre-emergent residual herbicide in glyphosate tolerant corn. The yield benefits are much higher when the in-crop… -
Precision agriculture
- THE NEXT PHASE as a certified Crop Advisor it has been interesting to participate in the evolution of crop management in Ontario and many CCA’s have watched and waited for global positioning systems (GPS) to… -
Take a tablet for more mobile power
- The AgNerds, Shaun Haney & Peter Gredig THE SMARTPHONE BRINGS mobile management power to farmers of all description. But an internet-enabled tablet device is a perfect complement and more farmers are taking advantage. If you already… -
Beyond standard soil sampling
- WHY IT’S IMPORTANT TO KNOW MORE THAN CHEMICAL COMPOSITION odette menard is a firm believer that growers need to take a much closer look at their soil. “We need to see it more as a… -
The necessity of grain segregation
- IN A POSITION FOR CHANGE ontario produces A very diverse mix of grain crops – and each year new traits, technologies and varieties are added to the complex lineup of products that are grown, stored,… -
GFO Newsletter for April 2012
- GET THE LATEST NEWS FROM GRAIN FARMERS OF ONTARIO Rural Voices Network launches the ‘Let Your Voice Be Heard’ Survey for Rural Ontario Your Voice is important to rural Ontario! This is the basis for… -
Early nitrogen
- Peter Johnson, Cereal Specialist, Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs; Kim Ratz, Communications Coordinator, Grain Farmers of Ontario WHEN TO SPRAY OR NOT TO SPRAY there are lots of questions this spring with… -
Research roundup
- FIND OUT WHAT’S NEW IN THE WORLD OF RESEARCH Planting now for high yields later Natalie Osborne and Joey Sabljic Selecting late maturing soybean varieties and planting them earlier in the growing season has been… -
Smart ways to staff up
- BECOMING AN EMPLOYER OF CHOICE staff is only for politicians, bureaucrats, and other well-to-do city slickers. Wrong, say ag human resource experts, but they also add that farmers would do well to consider adopting some… -
In the news
- NEWS BITES THAT MATTER Savvy Farmer offers free version of software Guelph-based The Savvy Farmer Inc. on Tuesday announced the launch of Savvy Farmer lite, a free version of its popular Savvy Farmer software. The… -
Space research hits close to home
- UNIVERSITY RESEARCHERS ARE CONNECTING THE DOTS BETWEEN SPACE AGRICULTURE AND EARTH-BASED PRODUCTION advancing food production in space and improving your field management may sound like completely unrelated research topics. But according to experts at the… -
Getting the dirt on corn nematodes
- AN UNDERESTIMATED AND MISDIAGNOSED PARASITE do you have fields or pockets of land that seem to have chronic yield and health problems no matter what strategy you use for crop rotation, weeds, pest management or… -
Agriculture-Wildlife Conflict Working Group
FROM THE CEO'S DESK
- GRAIN FARMERS OF ONTARIO has been participating on an Agriculture-Wildlife Conflict Working Group for quite some time. Due to recent resolutions to the GFO?Board of Directors and a new plan by Agricorp to track wildlife…