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

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…
New screening technology

AN ADVANTAGE FOR WHEAT BREEDERS

March 2018 - IN 2016, STATISTICS Canada anticipated that Canadian wheat production would decline by 19.5 per cent in 2017, attributing the decline to dry conditions in the prairies. But Western Canada isn’t the only region in the…
Inter-seeding cover crops in corn

ESTABLISHING AGRONOMIC BENEFITS

December 2017 - THERE HAS BEEN considerable research conducted on the use of cover crops after wheat. The relatively short growing season of wheat makes it the ideal crop in the rotation to include cover crops after harvest.…
Belt and Road Initiative

CHINA`S DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY

October 2017 - CHINA`S BELT AND Road Initiative is a development strategy with a focus on connecting Eurasian countries through a land-based road as well as a maritime route. The ‘belt’ is the Silk Road Economic Belt and…
Preparing for harvest

MITIGATING CHALLENGES

September 2017 - HARVEST IS JUST around the corner and with it comes long days of stress and fatigue. The easiest way to mitigate that stress is by preparing as much as possible ahead of time. Ontario grain…
How to be a cover cropper

LESSONS FROM THE FIELD

August 2017 - MORE FARMERS ARE seeing the value of having a cover crop in the field, and as a result, more are incorporating them into their row-crop systems. Cover crops offer a wide array of benefits. They…