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: Melanie Epp

Speaking up for agriculture

INTERNATIONAL FARMER PROFILE: MICHELLE JONES

June 2021 - COMMUNICATION WASN’T ALWAYS her strong suit. In fact, in college, Montana grain farmer Michelle Jones was so afraid of public speaking she would drop classes if the curriculum included a final presentation. Today, though, she…
Lifetime dedication

INTERNATIONAL FARMER PROFILE: BILL CRABTREE

June 2021 - BILL CRABTREE, BETTER known as No-Till Bill, recalls two distinct moments that, for him, marked the beginning of a lifetime dedicated to improving soil health. His journey started on the family farm in southwestern Australia…
Coping with the unexpected

HEALTH, RELATIONSHIPS, AND MARKET INFLUENCES

December 2020 - WHEN KELSEY BANKS began making payments on her grandparents’ 100-acre Orangeville farm a few years ago, she was excited about the future. She was finally pursuing her dream of becoming a farmer, a role she…
New technology for grain farmers

A YEAR OF INNOVATION

November 2020 - THE RATE OF technological advancement in agriculture in recent years has been nothing short of astounding. Around the world, engineers and equipment manufacturers are designing innovative machinery, advanced robotics, and practical gadgets to improve farm…
Crop diseases

WHAT TO WATCH FOR IN 2020

April 2020 - IT’S HARD TO know exactly what to expect in terms of disease from year to year, since so much is weather dependent, but Albert Tenuta, plant pathologist with the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and…
Weed management research

WHAT'S NEW

February 2020 - AS HERBICIDE-RESISTANT weeds continue their spread across the province, researchers continue to look for new management strategies. Grain Farmers of Ontario is a funder of several weed management research projects. While not all have reached…
Ten years of wild weather

WHAT PRODUCERS ARE DOING ABOUT IT

January 2020 - WEATHER-WISE, THE past decade has been fraught with extremes and variability. Ontario’s producers have been hit with bouts of excessive rain, untimely frosts, and oppressive heat waves. And while these incidents are normal, their frequency…
Conservation agriculture

A PROFILE OF A MOROCCAN FARMER

June 2019 - AZIZ ZINE EL ABIDINE knows he’s lucky. He can read, he’s highly educated and he farms 80 times more land than the average Moroccan farmer. The decisions he makes on his nearly 2,000 acre farm are…
An upward trend

CORN EXPORTS TO THE EU

October 2018 - CORN EXPORTS TO the European Union will reach 1.5 million tonnes in 2018. Experts attribute the increased demand to the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) between Canada and the EU, which abolished duties on…
Building healthy soils

A NUFFIELD SCHOLAR'S LIFELONG LESSON

June 2018 - NUFFIELD SCHOLAR AND French farmer Sarah Singla doesn’t believe farmers inherit the soil from their parents so much as they borrow it from their children. In fact, she believes the success of any given civilization…