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

Big booming Brazil

March 2012 - BRAZIL’S SIZE AND RATE OF GROWTH MAKE IT A GLOBAL LEADER north american farmers, no strangers to large-scale farming, can come back from Brazil in a state of shock. “Big,” they report. “You can’t believe…
It’s not just soybeans

January 2012 - CHINA’S AGRICULTURAL TRANSFORMATION tour a chinese corn farm and it’s easy to think that what you see — hardworking rural families living in simple houses and tilling an acre or two with a minimum of…
Cause or coincidence?

January 2012 - EXAMINING THE ROLE OF SPECULATORS IN PRICE VOLATILITY the sharp run-up in commodity prices during 2007 and 2008 set off another round of the ongoing debate over speculators and their role in price volatility. Though…
High prices boost competition

December 2011 - UKRAINE AND ARGENTINA BENEFIT FROM INVESTMENT IN INFRASTRUCTURE as worries mounted early this year about tight supplies of corn, wheat, and soybeans, prices mounted, sending a clear signal: “Produce more!” Canadian growers weren’t the only…
Better than tea leaves

September 2011 - A SNAPSHOT OF WORLD AGRICULTURE’S FUTURE if you ever wished you could read tea leaves to know where fertilizer demand is headed, how long-term soybean prices will trend or how much corn China could be…
The new US food safety law

June 2011 - BIG CHANGE, LITTLE CHANGE the recent passing of the US Food Safety Modernization Act means big changes are coming for our neighbours to the south. There’s no question that change is on the way for…
Palm oil: a growing competitor to soy oil

May 2011 - INCREASING PALM PLANTATIONS IN SOUTHEAST ASIA COULD IMPACT WORLD OIL SUPPLY brazil’s huge expansion of soybean acreage – up 43 percent from 1990 to 2000, then up another 74 percent from 2000 to 2010 –…
The carrot and the stick: US conservation programs

March 2011 - How our southern neighbours protect the environment the united states has had farm conservation programs since 1935, but it wasn’t until 1985 that conservation began to evolve into the programs’ primary function. Before 1985, the…
Examining the US cost of production

February 2011 - DELVING INTO THE COP OF OUR SOUTHERN NEIGHBOURS $288.83 per acre of wheat $359.74 for soybeans $546.63 for corn those are the average US production costs for 2009, but it’s only by looking beyond the…
Follow the dollars

January 2011 - FUNDING, NOT FACES, WILL DRIVE US AG COMMITTEE AGENDAS with the november election results US agriculture is facing dramatic changes in the congressional committees that oversee farm policy and an even bigger change in the…