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

Rain delay

EASTERN ONTARIO’S CHALLENGING SPRING

August 2017 - THE EXTENT OF the flooding in eastern Ontario this spring prompted Agricorp to do something it rarely does — extend the spring cereals planting deadline for production insurance. Agricorp senior industry specialist Geoff Smith notes…
Hunting on farmland

BUILDING A RELATIONSHIP WITH HUNTERS

April 2017 - IN 2015, 23,000 people took the Ontario Hunter Education Course, according to the provincial Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry (OMNRF), and a total of 450,000 people currently hold a ‘Hunting’ Outdoors Card.
Bacteria control of disease

CANADIAN SCIENTISTS AT THE FOREFRONT

February 2017 - SEVERAL TYPES OF bacteria are the focus of ground-breaking new Fusarium research here in Ontario. Professor Manish Raizada of the Department of Plant Agriculture at the University of Guelph, with colleagues Dr. Victor Limay-Rios and…
Ontario’s 2016 winter wheat crop

October 2016 - IMPLICATIONS OF A LARGE HARVEST IT’S A MEGA-YEAR for Ontario wheat acreages. In 1981, harvested acres of winter wheat in the province totalled 504,000, and about 20 years later in 2002, it wasn’t much different…
Farm lightly

September 2016 - PREVENTING OR MITIGATING COMPACTION COMPACTION IS A topic that every farmer must take seriously. Soil compaction causes damage to the soil structure and makes it much more difficult for plants to grow because it reduces…
Fall burndown

August 2016 - TIPS FOR A WEED FREE 2017 “BE READY TO pounce.” That’s the advice of Mike Cowbrough, weed management lead at the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs, on fitting in a fall application…
On track

June 2016 - IP PRODUCTION OF GMO SOYBEANS IS GROWING INTEREST IS GROWING in the added traceability of genetically modified (GMO) high-quality food grade soybeans. But as with any emerging market, there are complex forces at work and…
Rural rejuvenation

SUPPORTING RURAL COMMUNITIES WITH AN EYE TO GROWTH

June 2016 - WHEN THE FEDERAL budget of 2016 was announced in late March, the focus was on infrastructure spending — a lot of so-called ‘unsexy’ projects that would be funded in order to stimulate the economy. There…
Protecting Lake Erie

PREPARING FOR NUTRIENT REDUCTION TARGETS

April 2016 - IT WAS FORTY-FOUR years ago in 1972 when the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement (GLWQA) came into being. It was all about the Great Lakes — a commitment by the governments of Canada and the…
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…