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

Author: Edith Munro

U.S. ethanol exports

October 2015 - PRODUCTION INCREASES AS THE U.S. domestic market faces limits on its capacity to absorb more ethanol, the export market is gaining importance, and an Environmental Protection Agency proposal to scale back blending requirements could create…
U.S. Corn Belt

September 2015 - THE BEST AND WORST CONDITIONS REDUCED 2015 CORN plantings and a bump up in current year exports, livestock feeding, and ethanol demand prompted the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to increase its farm gate price…
Protecting water quality

September 2015 - U.S. FARMERS FACING NEW REGULATIONS TWO DEVELOPMENTS — A federal level regulation and a local court challenge — made water quality enforcement a hot issue for U.S. farmers this summer. The first development comes from…
Web Special

Avian flu raises questions about feed demand

June 2015 - CHALLENGES FACING U.S. FARMERS SINCE MID-DECEMBER, the outbreak of H5N2 avian flu has spread to 15 U.S. states and more than 40 million birds have died or been culled in efforts to halt the disease’s…
The International Year of Soils

June 2015 - PROMOTING SUSTAINABLE PRACTICES THE UNITED NATION’S declaration of 2015 as the International Year of Soils is prompting efforts in many nations to increase public understanding of the importance of soils to food security, inform decision…
Efficient use of P, K, and lime

March 2015 - BALANCING INPUT COSTS WITH INCREASED YIELDS AN IOWA STATE University (ISU) soil fertility expert is warning Iowa farmers not to make across-the-board cuts in fertilizer and lime applications to save on farm input costs in…
Crop rotation pays off

March 2015 - IOWA RESEARCH CONFIRMS NET RETURNS A TEN-YEAR FIELD study in central Iowa shows three- and four-year crop rotations achieving better net returns per acre than a two-year corn-soybean rotation, according to Dr. Matt Liebman, an…
2015 price outlook

January 2015 - THREE AMERICAN ANALYSTS OFFER OPINIONS AS OF MID-NOVEMBER, the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA’s) Economic Research Service projected a 2014/2015 corn price at the farm gate of $3.20 to $3.80 per bushel (U.S.) and…
Storage: it’s in the bag

January 2015 - U.S. FARMERS ADOPT PRAIRIE PRACTICE GRAIN BAGGING, A common practice in Western Canada, is gaining popularity in parts of the U.S. Corn Belt, especially within the Dakotas and Minnesota. “They’ve been bagging grain in…
Commodity outlook

December 2014 - THE U.S. PERSPECTIVE ON INTERNATIONAL MARKETS REPRESENTING CORN, SOYBEANS, and wheat, analysts from three American non-profit market development organizations offer their thoughts on what the coming year may offer. KURT SHULTZ U.S. GRAINS COUNCIL DIRECTOR…