Keeping tabs
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RECORD KEEPING ON the farm is not just about making life easier for your accountant come income tax season. Whether you are using precision agriculture technologies to capture data, using Excel or another database to…
Author: Michael Buttenham
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Sustainable solutions
COVER CROPPING
- GOING BACK TO the 1900s, cover cropping was a management practice that was widely used in agriculture. It provided a primary means for weed control and was a way to introduce nitrogen into the cropping… -
Soil sampling
A LITTLE INVESTMENT FOR A LOT OF INFORMATION
- WITH WHEAT HARVEST beginning to wrap up around the province and farmers now looking ahead to the approaching fall harvest season, we are in the so called “dog days of summer” and now is an… -
The sustainability supply chain
PUTTING THE TERM INTO PRACTICE
- OVER THE LAST several years, sustainability has become a word that governments, non-governmental organizations (NGO’s), corporations, and consumers are all using. But what does it mean to be sustainable? The definition of the word greatly varies depending… -
Sustainability goals
ONTARIO FARMERS MEETING INTERNATIONAL TARGETS
- MULTI-NATIONAL COMPANIES are building agricultural sustainability into their corporate social responsibility plans. After initially starting with high risk commodities such as cocoa and palm, companies are now assessing the sustainability of grains and oilseeds in their supply chains. These companies want to buy sustainably grown agricultural products and are increasingly setting ambitious targets to do so. -
A sustainable nutrient plan
APPLYING THE PRINCIPLES OF 4R
- 4R ONTARIO HAS been created as an industry-led initiative working towards a science-based approach to improve nutrient use efficiency and reduce potential nutrient loss into our environment.