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

Sustainable farming

February 2014 - A FARMING STORY FROM PORTUGAL GABRIELA CRUZ IS a fourth generation Portuguese farmer – one of four daughters to parents with no sons – who has been managing the family farm for the past 24…
Understanding CETA

January 2014 - AN OPPORTUNITY FOR ONTARIO GRAIN FARMERS A COMPREHENSIVE ECONOMIC and Trade Agreement between Canada and the European Union (EU), known as CETA, could provide more access for Ontario wheat producers, and more secure access for…
Northern leaf blight

January 2014 - MAINTAINING RESISTANCE NORTHERN LEAF BLIGHT is one of the most common and economically important fungal leaf diseases in Ontario. In fact, for as long as corn has been grown in the province there have been…
Understanding biotechnology

December 2013 - A TOUR OF A DUPONT PIONEER PLANT BREEDING FACILITY FOR A GENETICALLY modified (GM)?plant, the road to commercialization is long and tedious, but extremely interesting. From discovery to launch, it takes GM products anywhere from…
Tax planning

December 2013 - TIPS FOR REDUCING YOUR TAX PAYMENTS STEVE VAN DEN HENGELl is a chartered accountant and one of eleven partners at Famme & Company Professional Corporation. They have three offices: one in Stratford, one in London,…
Top 10 precision ag mistakes

November 2013 - ADVICE FROM THE FIELD MEET TIM NORRIS. He is the CEO of Ag Info Tech LLC, a precision technology and consulting business in Gambier, Ohio. Norris has been working with clients for 17 years, and…
Winter wheat performance

October 2013 - COMPARING GENETICS, SEED RATES AND PLANTING DATES what happens when you compare two varieties of winter wheat, one older and one newer? How have genetics changed over the last 40 years? And what happens when…
Safe harvest

September 2013 - THE DANGERS OF FLOWING GRAIN AND GRAIN BINS in the autumn of 2011, hog farmer and cash cropper Todd Brady and his 14-year-old son were unloading 600-bushel gravity wagons in Merlin, Ontario. While he went…
Web Special

Minimizing Fusarium

July 2013 - BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES FOR HARVEST AND STORAGE Peter Johnson didn’t beat around the bush last week when he faced his first group of the day at FarmSmart Expo in Elora. “This is a Fusarium year,”…
Understanding the Weed Control Act

July 2013 - FACING TODAY’S CHALLENGES WITH TECHNOLOGY every year, weed inspectors from across the province gather for the Annual Weed Inspector’s Conference. Weed Specialist Mike Cowbrough, from the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food (OMAF) hosted this…