Ontario Grain Farmer Magazine is the flagship publication of Grain Farmers of Ontario and a source of information for our province’s grain farmers.

Grain Farmers of Ontario

January 2018

In this issue:

Location, location, location

THE COMPETITIVE LAKE ONTARIO EXPORT MARKET

January 2018 - ONE OF THE most encouraging things to watch in the Ontario grain markets through the 2017 harvest period was how strong cash basis levels have remained despite a rather large crop both within Ontario, and…
Higher production and market demands

THE ONTARIO CORN ECONOMY

January 2018 - CORN IS AN incredibly important crop to the Ontario economy. From Windsor in the southwest to the Québec border and north to Earlton, cornfields are a predominant default of the rural landscape. Whether it is…
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Looking to the future

EXPANSION AT IGPC ETHANOL INC.

January 2018 - AS THE LARGEST corn producer in Canada, it’s not surprising that Ontario is also the country’s leading ethanol producer. Six facilities, operated by Greenfield Ethanol Inc., IGPC Ethanol Inc., Kawartha Ethanol, and Suncor, produce more than…
Political change

FROM THE CEO'S DESK

January 2018 - WITH THE LAST election in Ontario almost four years ago, it’s hard to believe that in the short time since, the Canadian government, the U.S. government, and many of the provincial governments across Canada have…
Soil form and function

A FARMSMART 2018 PREVIEW

January 2018 - DEGRADED SOIL CAN still give you high yields but those yields come at a cost. Those soils are less resilient, less able to handle stress such as drought or heavy rain, and require more inputs.…
Identifying locally grown

2017 NUFFIELD SCHOLAR UPDATE

January 2018 - NICOLE MACKELLAR IS the recipient of the 2017 Grain Farmers of Ontario sponsored Nuffield Scholarship. Mackellar, manager, market development for Grain Farmers of Ontario, is using the scholarship to study the possibilities for branding of…
GFO Newsletter for January 2018

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January 2018 - TRADE MISSION TO CHINA A Ministerial Trade Mission to China led by the Honourable Lawrence MacAulay, federal Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food, took place in November. The mission included a group of Canadians from across…
Market side: Futures trading basics

LESSON 33: TECHNICAL ANALYSIS

January 2018 - CANDLESTICK CHARTING This lesson we will continue with basic candles. Once we complete our overview of the basic candles, we will group them in patterns. They will be identified as single candle patterns, two candle…
Market review

A 2016-17 PRICE ANALYSIS

January 2018 - THE LOW CANADIAN dollar, big crops in the U.S., and summertime volatility were among the factors that shaped prices for corn, soybean, and wheat crops in Ontario in the last marketing year. Data compiled by…
Ontario’s wheat story

MARKET OVERVIEW

January 2018 - ONTARIO FARMERS GROW close to a million acres of wheat annually, this includes winter and spring wheat. Wheat is a rotational grain whose acreage is in large part dependent on the weather in September. A…
Business side: Tax season update

CONVERSATIONS WITH BUSINESS EXPERTS

January 2018 - (J.M.) WHAT’S NEW FOR THIS YEAR’S TAX SEASON? (W.R.) Whether you’re impacted or not, most farmers are aware of recent tax changes made to private corporations. Most of the changes aimed at converting income into…
Cropside: A neighbourhood plan

AGRONOMIC INFORMATION FROM ONTARIO'S CROP SPECIALISTS

January 2018 - WHEN IT COSTS more to apply manure to high fertility fields than the manure is worth, a neighbourhood nutrient management plan may be an economical alternative. The cost of handling manure is associated with the…
Profit hunting closer to home

THE POWER OF LOCAL MARKETS

January 2018 - ONE OF THE most valuable lessons Ontario grain farmers might take away from marketing grain in 2017 is not to underestimate the influence of local markets. This was where some marketers found some of their…
The managed money effect

HOW IT'S INFLUENCING YOUR GRAIN PRICES

January 2018 - GRAIN FUTURES ARE and always will be affected by outside investments such as managed money funds. With the sheer size of the portfolios managed money funds carry, they have the ability to swing a big…
Uncertainty

U.S. AGRICULTURE IN 2018

January 2018 - A NEW PRESIDENTIAL administration always means adjustments for U.S. agriculture, but the first year of the Trump presidency has been uniquely unsettling. The resulting uncertainty may produce exceptional challenges in 2018 affecting infrastructure, trade, and…