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: Stephen Kell

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MARKETING DON INFECTED CORN

January 2019 - MY FIRST HARVEST in the commercial grain elevator business was 1992. For the farmers who are too young to remember it, 1992 was an extremely cool summer and much of Ontario’s corn crop simply failed…
Location, location, location

THE COMPETITIVE LAKE ONTARIO EXPORT MARKET

January 2018 - ONE OF THE most encouraging things to watch in the Ontario grain markets through the 2017 harvest period was how strong cash basis levels have remained despite a rather large crop both within Ontario, and…
Marketing wheat

DECISIONS AND STRATEGIES

January 2017 - ONE OF THE more significant market influencers in the Ontario wheat business is that 2016’s big crop is going to leave a large carry out of old crop wheat inventory as we move into the…
Shifting focus

January 2016 - A NEW TREND IN THE WINTER WHEAT MARKET THERE IS A fundamental shift coming in Ontario’s winter wheat market. As we transition from 2015’s unusually small crop into 2016’s near record supply, the manner in…
Efficient transport

January 2015 - ONTARIO’S ADVANTAGE THERE ARE TWO fundamental realities in the commodities business. The first is that you need to have a product that somebody wants, and the second is that you have to have some means…