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: Joey Sabljic

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…
Help for thin clover stands

February 2016 - UNEVEN ESTABLISHMENT ABOUT MORE THAN MOISTURE WHEN RED CLOVER works, it’s an excellent way to add diversity to your crop rotation, provide a big nitrogen credit for next year’s corn crop, and add essential organic…
Keeping weeds in the dark

March 2015 - UTILIZING COVER CROPS SEEING EVEN THE tiniest sliver of sunlight is all most weed seeds need to germinate — but if they sense that there is a thick plant canopy above them, they won’t emerge.…
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Digging deeper into soil quality

August 2014 - SCIENTISTS USING IMAGING TECHNOLOGY WHEN IT COMES to understanding the ins and outs of soil quality, are growers currently getting only a small part of the picture? The simple answer, according to a University of Guelph researcher,…
Pinpointing Fusarium populations

February 2014 - A LOOK INTO ONTARIO CORN AND WHEAT CRIPPLING INFECTIONS AND yield losses from the aggressive fungus, Fusarium graminearum, continues to be a real threat to Ontario corn and wheat growers. CORN SAMPLING SITES. WHEAT SAMPLING…
The next generation?

November 2013 - INCREASING ROBOTICS IN AGRICULTURE SOONER, RATHER THAN later, unmanned robotic vehicles will not just be the stuff of spy movies, war torn battlefields and missions to Mars. Instead, they could be pulling your grain cart…
The global struggle

September 2013 - PROACTIVE STEPS AGAINST HERBICIDE RESISTANCE ontario’s growing problems with herbicide resistant weeds are just the tip of the iceberg in what is truly a global problem. The problem weed species, growing climates and affected crops…
Owning the problem

July 2013 - TAKING PROACTIVE STEPS AGAINST HERBICIDE RESISTANCE from his office on campus at the University of Guelph, Plant Agriculture professor and weed scientist Francois Tardif is poring over slides showing examples of resistant weeds found on…
Machine maintenance

April 2013 - TIPS FROM THE EXPERTS Farmers need to make the most of all the good weather days they get in the spring; and an untimely breakdown of a tractor, planter or seed drill could affect your…
High-yielding research

February 2013 - INVENTIVENESS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH IN THE EARLY 1900’s, Charles Zavitz, Ontario Agricultural College professor and father of the first widely successful Canadian soybean variety, believed that it was the researcher’s responsibility to make…