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Grain Farmers of Ontario

Author: Kim Waalderbos

Looking ahead at Iogen Corporation

July 2012 - THE FUTURE OF CELLULOSIC ETHANOL a strategic team at Iogen Corporation, based in Ottawa, Ontario, is engaged in discussions to explore a commercial solution for producing advanced biofuels on an industrial scale. “The technology for…
A hybrid of two farming cultures

May 2012 - A MIX OF PRACTICES EQUALS SUCCESS when bert von westerholt set foot on Canadian soil in July 1977, he was 18 years old, fresh out of high school, and with the ambition to farm. Having…
Getting the dirt on corn nematodes

April 2012 - AN UNDERESTIMATED AND MISDIAGNOSED PARASITE do you have fields or pockets of land that seem to have chronic yield and health problems no matter what strategy you use for crop rotation, weeds, pest management or…
Stacking the benefits

April 2012 - BIOLOGICALS: THE NEW FRONTIER OF PEST MANAGEMENT there are new pest management options on the horizon, thanks to the potential of biological products that can provide seemingly limitless options for control and suppression of weeds,…
Satisfying the world’s energy needs

March 2012 - NEW REPORT SAYS AGRICULTURE WILL BE A KEY PLAYER IN SUSTAINABLE ENERGY PRODUCTION by 2050, all the energy needed to supply the world could come from renewable sources. That’s the conclusion presented in The Energy…
Nematicides yield promising results

March 2012 - FINDING MORE MANAGEMENT TOOLS FOR NEMATODES IS THE FOCUS OF ONGOING RESEARCH using nematicide seed treatments could improve yields and help crop growers get a handle on cyst populations says an extension specialist with the…
Meeting of the minds

February 2012 - GLOBAL CORN EXPERTS COLLABORATE TO DEVELOP A NEW CORN GROWTH SIMULATION MODEL public and private researchers are working together in an unprecedented manner to develop what they hope will become the gold standard of corn…
Finding the silver lining

January 2012 - OPTIMISM FOR GRAIN FARMERS IN A VOLATILE GLOBAL ECONOMY grain farmers should look to 2012 with optimism. Despite the economic volatility that is expected to continue into the new year buoyed by Europe’s financial crisis,…