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

Breeding innovations

OAT AND SOYBEAN VARIETY DEVELOPMENT

February 2023 - THE OAT BREEDING program at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada’s Ottawa Research and Development Centre, led by Dr. Weikai Yan, has been working on a project to boost yield, quality, and disease resistance in new oat…
Farming in a war zone

UKRAINE FARMERS CONTINUE TO BE RESILIENT

December 2022 - IN JUNE OF this year, Ontario Grain Farmer published a story on the challenges faced by Ukrainian farmers amidst the growing conflict with Russia. First interviewed in April, Oleh Zahorodnii and Roman Gorobets provide an…
Funding innovation

TRANSFORMING CANADA'S AGRICULTURAL SECTOR

November 2022 - SINCE ITS INCEPTION in 2019, the Canadian Agri-Food Automation and Intelligence Network (CAAIN) has launched a number of agri-food projects, several of which are grain-related, thanks in part to funding from a Strategic Innovation Fund…
Port of Oshawa expansion

IMPROVING GRAIN EXPORT CAPACITY

October 2022 - IN JUNE OF this year, the federal government committed close to $14 million to an export expansion project at the Port of Oshawa. The recipient, the Hamilton-Oshawa Port Authority, will contribute $16 million to the…
Digging deeper into soil health

MSTS GIVES GROWERS A NEW PERSPECTIVE

August 2022 - BEFORE THE ADVENT of drone technology, issues in the field could only be seen from the ground and tractor level. Using drone technology provided a whole new perspective, allowing growers to see problems in the…
Farming in a war zone

UKRAINIAN FARMERS FACE CHALLENGES HEAD-ON

June 2022 - WHEN THE UKRAINE-RUSSIA crisis began at the end of February, Russia’s actions took the world by surprise. Reactions came swift and hard as countries around the world imposed economic sanctions against Russia. Ripples of those…
Writing Canada’s sustainability story

CANADA’S SUSTAINABILITY SCORECARD

April 2022 - THE 2021 FOOD Sustainability Index, developed by Economist Impact with the support of the Barilla Center for Food and Nutrition Foundation (BCFN), ranked Canada third globally in terms of sustainable food production. While the score…
Web Special

Controlling wild oats

SPRING WHEAT AND BARLEY

February 2022 - WILD OAT IS an annual grassy weed generally associated with Western Canada. Until recently, it wasn’t even on the radar in Ontario. But as the province’s farmers adopt rotations that include spring cereals, resistance issues…
Improved corn establishment

THE ROLE OF HERBICIDES AND COVER CROPS

February 2022 - COVER CROPS PLAY an important role in building soil quality and productivity on Ontario farms. Yet, even though their benefits are widely known, skepticism still exists. Farmers worry about the cost of implementation and that…
Filling the gap

TECH START-UP ANALYSING AG DATA

November 2021 - A NEW HAMILTON-based tech start-up aims to help farmers fill the gap between collected data and performance in the field by providing solid analysis of that data. Realizing there was very little data analysis being…