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What’s new with the Good in Every Grain campaign

The success of the teacher seed kits

February 2026 - TEACHER SEED KITS REACH 43,000 STUDENTS For the 2024 – 2025 school year, Good in Every Grain mailed out over 15,000 seed kits to 43,000 students across Ontario. These kits were unique this year, as…
A new twist in the spider mite fight

Insecticide resistance grows and new species emerge

February 2026 - With hotter and drier summers, mites’ populations spread and increase, making them more visible. Growers are helping provide field samples to researchers looking at appearance and resistance patterns. Soybeans have been hammered by an increasing…
Making late nitrogen applications work

Producers should rethink best management practices for post-canopy corn fertility treatment

February 2026 - Applying nitrogen in late season corn allows more opportunity to fine-tune fertility rates, spread out labour requirements, and rescue corn impacted by early dry conditions. To get the most out of post-canopy applications, producers need…
Early warning signs: Don’t ignore red flags in farm succession

Conversations with business experts

February 2026 - WHAT IS A ‘RED FLAG’ IN FARM SUCCESSION, AND WHAT DOES IT MEAN? When farm families think about succession planning, the focus often falls on wills, farm ownership, tax strategies, and asset transfers. Those are…
Here’s what really drives soybean yield variation

Ontario research points to environment and R5 growth as key factors

February 2026 - Even when environment and management both increase yield, they may do so for fundamentally different reasons. Ontario soybean fields often differ sharply in yield from one year to the next, but the reasons driving those…
GrainTALK newsletter – GrainTALK for February 2026

An update on Grain Farmers of Ontario news and events

February 2026 - Women’s Grain Symposium Grain Farmers of Ontario hosted the annual Women’s Grain Symposium in Guelph in December, bringing together 120 women from farms and agricultural business to focus on leadership development. A panel discussion with…
Combining forces

Two Eastern Canadian wheat breeding programs team up to produce superior fungal disease resistance

February 2026 - Quebec and Guelph-Ridgetown researchers aim to register new winter wheat cultivars with better fusarium head blight resistance. Ontario wheat growers are constantly on guard against fusarium head blight (FHB). In Eastern Canada, FHB is the…
Exploring organic options for soil fertility and health

Agronomic information from Ontario's crop specialists

February 2026 - Livestock farmers have always recognized the value of manure in building soil fertility and supporting crop production. Historically, crop producers without access to this resource have looked on with envy. Today, though, a wide range…
Look after your soil microbes

Less tillage and greater diversity in the field supports healthier communities below ground

February 2026 - Guelph researchers mapped soil microbial communities and the practices that were most beneficial. Tillage practices, fertility treatments and different crop rotations were all part of their analysis. Advances in genome analysis tools are providing a…
Expanding the wheat-breeding pipeline

Here’s a boost to help producers be prepared for the sector’s future needs

February 2026 - A hard red wheat (HRW) research project is helping Ontario’s wheat industry by boosting germplasm development efforts to pinpoint the traits growers need in the years ahead. By incorporating a focus on the early identification…