April 2016

In this issue:

Future of grain

April 2016 - HIGHLIGHTING THE LATEST TECHNOLOGY IN GRAIN PRODUCTION AND UTILIZATION Who are you following? Farmers are using Twitter to stay connected and up to date with industry news. Each month, Ontario Grain Farmer magazine will highlight…
Wide open

April 2016 - THE PROS AND CONS OF MOVING TO WIDER SOYBEAN ROWS GROWERS IN ONTARIO are moving towards wider row spacing for soybeans in an effort to save time and money. Wider row spacing is becoming a…
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A proactive plan

April 2016 - WHITE MOULD COULD BE THE BIG SOYBEAN ISSUE FOR 2016 HOW DO YOU manage a disease that growers and researchers have struggled to get a handle on for years? PHOTO: WHITE MOULD OFTEN SHOWS UP…
Research roundup

April 2016 - FIND OUT WHAT’S NEW IN THE WORLD OF RESEARCH Name your nemesis Which weed makes you see red? What pesky plant can you not get rid of or is spreading faster than you can say…
Caring for rented land

SHOULD SOIL HEALTH BE A PART OF RENTAL AGREEMENTS

April 2016 - IN ONTARIO, MORE than four million acres of farmland is rented, leased, or share-cropped, representing 35 per cent of total provincial farmland. This number has been steadily increasing, up from 23 per cent in 1975.…
A plan for resistant fleabane

April 2016 - CANADA FLEABANE REQUIRES MULTI-YEAR MANAGEMENT GLYPHOSATE-RESISTANT Canada fleabane first appeared in Ontario in Essex County in 2010. At that time only a few fields were affected. Over a five-year period, however, the number of affected…
Cropside: Assessing winter wheat

AGRONOMIC INFORMATION FROM ONTARIO'S CROP SPECIALISTS

April 2016 - THIS YEAR’S WINTER wheat crop got off to a great start thanks to excellent weather conditions last fall which gave many growers the opportunity to get the crop in early. Many fields had excellent stands…
Save the starter N

April 2016 - FEW CONDITIONS WARRANT STARTER NITROGEN ON SOYBEANS A LOT OF nitrogen goes into producing a bumper soybean crop but researchers still seem to agree there’s no economic advantage to applying a nitrogen (N) starter in…
Interseeding cover crops in corn

April 2016 - PRESERVING CORN YIELD WHILE IMPROVING SOIL ADDING NUTRIENTS, PREVENTING erosion, and increasing microbial activity are just some of the goals when adding cover crops to a rotation. Interseeding cover crops in corn is gaining popularity…
In the news

April 2016 - NEWS BITES THAT MATTER China Approves XTend Soybean trait for 2016 After several false starts, Canadian farmers will finally have access to Roundup Ready 2 XTend soybeans for the 2016 planting season, after the much-sought-after…
GFO Newsletter for April/May 2016

April 2016 - GET THE LATEST NEWS FROM GRAIN FARMERS OF ONTARIO GROWING ONTARIO CALLS FOR PROVINCIAL SUPPORT FOR ROAD TAX EXEMPTION Grain Farmers of Ontario is spearheading a new coalition, named Growing Ontario, with the Federation of…
Diving into drones

April 2016 - LATEST TECH ADDS INFRARED AND SOIL MAPPING ELEMENT DRONES ARE THE latest hot-ticket high tech item, with the U.S Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) estimating more than a million Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) given as Christmas…
Business side: Managing stress

CONVERSATIONS WITH BUSINESS EXPERTS

April 2016 - (R.H.) WHAT IMPACT DOES STRESS HAVE ON OUR BODIES AND MINDS? (S.D.A.) Stress often comes with an experience of tension which leads to frustration and ultimately results in erupting situations with those around us. Visible…
Greening through regulation

April 2016 - FARMERS’ PLACE IN THE EU’S GREEN ECONOMY FIRST INTRODUCED IN 1962, the European Union’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is a system that implements agricultural subsidies and other programs. Every year, CAP provides some €50–60 of…
Cap and cost

April 2016 - WHAT ONTARIO’S CARBON ECONOMY MEANS FOR FARMERS THE CAP AND trade regulation that Ontario has proposed to implement January 1, 2017 may be another costly burden for grain and oilseed farmers to shoulder, if the…
Building a 4R strategy

FOLLOWING THE 4RS REDUCES NUTRIENT LOSSES

April 2016 - TWO YEARS AGO, in 2014, Grain Farmers of Ontario, the Ontario Agri-Business Association, and Fertilizer Canada began work on a 4R Nutrient Stewardship Demonstration Farm program. “Through this program we recruited fifteen crop farmers to…
Protecting Lake Erie

PREPARING FOR NUTRIENT REDUCTION TARGETS

April 2016 - IT WAS FORTY-FOUR years ago in 1972 when the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement (GLWQA) came into being. It was all about the Great Lakes — a commitment by the governments of Canada and the…
Market side: Futures trading basics

LESSON 17: TECHNICAL ANALYSIS

April 2016 - This monthly educational series will feature the basic workings of the futures and options markets and how they can be utilized to help farmers with risk management. THE DISCUSSION ON technical analysis will consume the…
Make it stay

April 2016 - STRATEGIES FOR REDUCING SOIL MOVEMENT DRIVING PAST ROLLING Ontario farm landscapes in the fall, Peter Johnson, agronomist for RealAgriculture.com, can see the soil changing colour on some fields. PHOTO: ON ROLLING TOPOGRAPHY, TILLAGE EROSION CAN…
Organizational efficiency

FROM THE CEO'S DESK

April 2016 - IN MID-FEBRUARY, the Manitoba Co-operator published an article about increasing collaboration between organizations and the issue of checkoff fee fatigue across the province. In this piece, the column pointed to Grain Farmers of Ontario as…

April 2016

Future of grain

Wide open

A proactive plan

Research roundup

Caring for rented land

A plan for resistant fleabane

Cropside: Assessing winter wheat

Save the starter N

Interseeding cover crops in corn

In the news

Diving into drones

Business side: Managing stress

Greening through regulation

Cap and cost

Building a 4R strategy

Protecting Lake Erie

Market side: Futures trading basics

Make it stay

Organizational efficiency

Recommended:

Tar spot prevention

Tradition meets innovation

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April 2016

Future of grain

Wide open

A proactive plan

Research roundup

Caring for rented land

A plan for resistant fleabane

Cropside: Assessing winter wheat

Save the starter N

Interseeding cover crops in corn

In the news

GFO Newsletter for April/May 2016

Diving into drones

Business side: Managing stress

Greening through regulation

Cap and cost

Building a 4R strategy

Protecting Lake Erie

Market side: Futures trading basics

Make it stay

Organizational efficiency

Recommended:

Tar spot prevention

Tradition meets innovation