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

Building a 4R strategy

FOLLOWING THE 4RS REDUCES NUTRIENT LOSSES

April 2016 - TWO YEARS AGO, in 2014, Grain Farmers of Ontario, the Ontario Agri-Business Association, and Fertilizer Canada began work on a 4R Nutrient Stewardship Demonstration Farm program. “Through this program we recruited fifteen crop farmers to…
An integrated approach

February 2016 - TIPS FOR MANAGEMENT OF SUDDEN DEATH SYNDROME THE NAME SOUNDS serious, and it should — sudden death syndrome (SDS) of soybeans is a fungal disease that can have swift and serious consequences. PHOTO: CLOSE UP…
Tracking northern corn leaf blight

February 2016 - MEASURING INCIDENCE, SEVERITY, AND RESISTANCE IF YOU’VE NOTICED a higher incidence of northern corn leaf blight (NCLB), or higher incidence in certain hybrid lines, you’re not imagining things — genetic resistance to NCLB is being…
Niche wheat market development

January 2016 - A TANGIBLE BENEFIT OF PBR IT’S BEEN LESS than a year since the Plant Breeders’ Rights Act (PBR91) was updated at the end of February 2015. This move, long awaited by Canadian and international seed…
Farmland price update

December 2015 - FACTORS AT PLAY AND THE OUTLOOK FOR 2016 WHILE FARMLAND PRICES increased substantially in 2014, the market cooled this year and that trend is expected to carry into 2016. The ‘Farmland Values Report,’ published by…
Protecting your investments

November 2015 - SECURITY AND MONITORING TECHNOLOGY FOR THE FARM THE FARM IS not the place it used to be, even ten years ago, notes GHC Safety and Security president Jamie Couper. “Unfortunately, security has become an important…
Export market update

October 2015 - NATIONAL AND PROVINCIAL PERSPECTIVES GRAINS AND OILSEEDS exports are doing well for Ontario and Canadian farmers, and markets are continuing to grow. In general, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) predicts that abundant world grain supplies…
Plant Breeders’ Rights

June 2015 - CANADA SIGNS ON TO UPOV’91 IMPORTANT AMENDMENTS TO Canada’s Plant Breeders’ Rights (PBR) Act have been passed into law. These changes bring Canada in line with other countries who have signed on to the 1991…
Controlled drainage

April 2015 - MEASURING THE ECONOMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL BENEFITS THE INSTALLATION OF controlled drainage and the equipment to measure its effects is now complete at the farm of Henk and Annie Van Den Berg in Lucan, Ontario. PHOTO:…
Controlling giant ragweed

March 2015 - CORN AND SOYBEAN PRODUCTION PRACTICES WHY IS THE prevalence of Giant ragweed in soybeans higher than it ever has been in Ontario? That has been the research focus of Dr. Eric Page, a scientist with…