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: Treena Hein

Young farmers help diversify the family farm

September 2011 - WANNA MAKE IT FARM’ OF MOOSE CREEK MAKES RUNNING A FAMILY BUSINESS LOOK EASY at wanna make it farm near Moose Creek in eastern Ontario, everyone wears many hats – and the same hats are…
DON developments

September 2011 - NEW GRADING TECHNOLOGY AND NEW GENETICS BEING DEVELOPED IN ONTARIO visual inspection of corn and wheat for Fusarium infection at the point of grain delivery is not accurate for determining actual levels of DON, so…
Huge wheat yields by eliminating weak links

May 2011 - ONTARIO FARMERS MAY LEARN FROM ENGLISH AND NEW ZEALANDER PRODUCTION PRACTICES want substantially better wheat yields without significantly increasing your production costs? Ontario farmers, help is here – in the form of intensive wheat production…
Hiring it out or doing yourself?

April 2011 - CUSTOM SPRAYING AND MANURE MANAGEMENT CAN MAKE SENSE due to economic benefits, convenience and other reasons, more and more Ontario farmers are choosing to hire custom spraying services instead of doing it themselves. It’s an…
Trait approval process

April 2011 - THE LONG ROAD TO REGISTER NEW VARIETIES ENSURE AUTHENTICATED CLAIMS AND SAFETY FOR ALL everyone directly or indirectly involved in grain farming knows that it’s a long process to create and release new crop varieties…
Debt on the farm

March 2011 - The current state of agricultural debt in Canada canadian farm debt is a whopping $62.7 billion at present, and has been steadily increasing since 1995. “Before that, the outcome of the farming crisis in the…
Managing farm debt

March 2011 - Finding out how best to manage your farm finances some farmers in Canada have thoroughly looked into optimizing their management of debt, but many need to take a much closer look. “Farmers need to think…
Maximizing fertilizer usage this spring

February 2011 - IMPORTANT TIPS AND THE LOW-DOWN ON NEW TECHNOLOGIES it’s been a year to celebrate in Ontario, with outstanding yields for corn and solid yields for soybeans and wheat. However, with great yields, comes great responsibility.…
Public and private corn breeding – a behind the scenes tour

February 2011 - HOW PUBLIC PROGRAMS AND PRIVATE INDUSTRY IN CANADA COMPLIMENT EACH OTHER the improved yield and disease resistance Canadian-adapted corn hybrids have demonstrated during the last few decades has been truly impressive. Growers know a lot…
New traits coming down the pipeline

December 2010 - WHAT’S JUST OUT – OR COMING SOON – IN CORN, SOYBEANS AND WHEAT it’s sometimes difficult to keep up with myriad of new trait developments for your rotation as they become available. To give you…