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Grain Farmers of Ontario

Author: Treena Hein

Growing eastern Ontario research

WINCHESTER AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH STATION

November 2019 - AFTER THE UNIVERSITY of Guelph closed its campus in Kemptville in 2016, the future of the plots at the Winchester Agricultural Research Station was called into question. The research statin relied on the campus to…
Traceability through blockchain

IMPROVING THE GRAINS VALUE CHAIN

October 2019 - BLOCKCHAIN CAN BE described as a secure electronic ledger for keeping track of goods in a given supply chain. A recent pilot project explored the potential of this technology to improve traceability within the grain…
Maximizing soybean yields

MANAGING HARVEST

September 2019 - THIS SPRING WAS one of the latest, wettest, and chilliest in quite a while, which made planting of all crops a challenge. These conditions, ironically, might actually result in the largest soybean acreage ever in…
Cleaner every year

AN UPDATE ON THE CLEANFARMS PROGRAM

August 2019 - NEXT YEAR, CLEANFARMS will celebrate it’s official tenth anniversary — but it’s already celebrating many outstanding accomplishments related to helping farmers minimize their environmental impact, stretching back to its origins as a jug-collection program 30…
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Growing an association

SETTING THE PATH AHEAD

May 2019 - THIS MARCH, THE Ontario Professional Agri Contractors Association (OPACA) held its third AGM, adding more members, taking stock of past accomplishments and setting the path ahead. OPACA was created so that custom farming business owners…
The bio-economy

NEW VENTURES IN ONTARIO

April 2019 - THERE’S A WHOLE lot going on in Ontario’s bio-economy — and at the centre of much of it is Bioindustrial Innovation Canada (BIC), a non-profit government-supported business accelerator. Since 2008, BIC has worked in the…
Mapping the soybean genome

A CANADIAN GENOTYPING PLATFORM

February 2019 - AS YOU MAY already know, mapping the genome of livestock animals and crops — and identifying specific genetic markers linked to specific traits of interest within those genomes — is starting to enable breeders to…
Charging up

RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN ELECTRIC TRACTORS

December 2018 - “IMAGINE A FARM where electric agricultural vehicles, some autonomous, some conventional, are connected to charging points in large solar PV equipped ‘carport-style’ machinery sheds, earning additional income from so-called ‘vehicle-to-grid’ network balancing services while they…
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Trends in Ontario farmland values

STRONG PROFITS WILL CONTINUE TO DRIVE FUTURE PRICE INCREASES

November 2018 - IT’S WIDELY KNOWN that Ontario farmland values, and values across Canada, have seen strong increases in recent years, but the situation cooled to some extent this year compared to 2017. “It is safe to say,…
Barley and oats

GROWING SUCCESS IN 2018

March 2018 - SIGNIFICANT PRICE MOVEMENT was seen for barley and oats in December and January, which may have some farmers considering spring cereals. Here’s a roundup of best advice on variety choices and crop management for 2018,…