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Future of grain

January 2015 - HIGHLIGHTING THE LATEST TECHNOLOGY IN GRAIN PRODUCTION AND UTILIZATION Ontario farm tire deflation technology goes global Lilian Schaer, AgInnovation Ontario An automatic air inflation deflation system (AAID), developed by a southwestern Ontario hog farmer, is…
Soil health

January 2015 - DO WE NEED A CHECKUP? HAVE YOU FELT a need in recent years to do a little more tillage? Do you sometimes feel the market determines your crop rotation? The late 80’s and through the…
In the news

January 2015 - NEWS BITES THAT MATTER New IntakeTM Adjuvant for Liquid AchieveTM Dow AgroSciences Canada has announced that Intake™ Adjuvant is the new surfactant for use with Liquid Achieve herbicide for reliable grass weed control in wheat…
Web Special

2015 FarmSmart

December 2014 - FOCUS ON SOIL HEALTH AND EMERGING TECHNOLOGY A FULL LINE-UP of presenters has been confirmed for the 2015 FarmSmart and SoilSmart agricultural conferences. For a third year, a full-day event will precede the main FarmSmart…
GFO Newsletter for December 2014

December 2014 - GET THE LATEST NEWS FROM GRAIN FARMERS OF ONTARIO THANK A GRAIN FARM FAMILY During the month of October, Grain Farmers of Ontario held its third Thank a Grain Farm Family contest. The contest was…
In the news

December 2014 - NEWS BITES THAT MATTER Ridgetown Alumni Mentorship Program This fall, the University of Guelph Ridgetown Campus is offering a pilot Student Mentorship Program. This new program will see sixteen alumni mentors matched with sixteen students…
Research roundup

December 2014 - FIND OUT WHAT’S NEW IN THE WORLD OF RESEARCH A bottom-up approach to dealing with drought Mallory Kohn The Sand Plains region in Ontario is one of the most productive areas for corn. But because of…
Future of grain

December 2014 - HIGHLIGHTING THE LATEST TECHNOLOGY IN GRAIN PRODUCTION AND UTILIZATION AGCO upgrades Minnesota facility AGCO Corporation is in the midst of a multi- year, $42 million upgrade and expansion to its engineering and manufacturing facility in Jackson,…
Media attention

December 2014 - POSITIVE RESPONSE TO OTTAWA TOUR FARM &?FOOD Care Ontario partnered with Foodland Ontario and Grain Farmers of Ontario to host another successful food writers’ tour this past October. Fifty Ottawa-area journalists, authors, culinary instructors, chefs,…
2015 Faces of Farming calendar

December 2014 - MIDDLESEX GRAIN FARMER IS ‘OCTOBER’ WHEN YOU COMPARE her to the age of the average farmer in Ontario, Krista Patterson is decades younger, but she already has a wealth of experience under her belt. Krista…