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Seasonal stress

NEW INITIATIVES TO HELP FARMERS COPE

September 2018 - IT’S NOVEMBER. IT’S been a wet fall, resulting in wet, muddy fields. It’s sunny today, drying the ground up just enough to maybe get a combine in the fields. The weather forecast calls for rain…
GrainTALK Research Days

CONNECTING FARMERS AND RESEARCHERS

September 2018 - CONNECTING FARMERS WITH research was the focus of the Research Days tour presented by GrainTALK in central Ontario this summer. On July 16, farmer-members were invited to a day long bus tour to see research…
Air assist

IMPROVED COVERAGE IN CORN

September 2018 - A FARM OPERATION near Dresden, Ont. bought a used 2010 Miller Condor with a Spray Air boom from Indiana. Their goal was to improve spray coverage in onion and tomatoes with the air-assist feature. On…
Soybean drying charges

FROM THE CEO'S DESK

September 2018 - IN AUGUST 2013, the grain industry, including Grain Farmers of Ontario, agreed to change to a system where the cost of drying soybeans was not regulated. Cleaning and handling charges, as well as soybean drying…
Farm 911: The Emily Project

FASTER EMERGENCY RESPONSE IN THE FIELD

September 2018 - IT’S BEEN ONE year since The Emily Project launched, installing 911 signs in field entry ways to identify rural locations in the event of a farm accident. And the response has been overwhelming. Farm 911:…
Harvesting data

KNOWING WHAT TO KEEP FROM THE FIELD

September 2018 - COLLECTING ACCURATE HARVEST data begins in the spring. That’s when you get your first indication of how a crop is performing. “What you see in the spring is what you will see in the fall,”…
GFO Newsletter for September 2018

GET THE LATEST NEWS FROM GRAIN FARMERS OF ONTARIO

September 2018 - GRAIN FARMERS OF ONTARIO ANNUAL REPORT Grain Farmers Of Ontario’s Annual Report is available online at www.gfo.ca or by calling the office at 1-800-265-0550 and requesting a copy be mailed to you. The financial statements…
GFO Newsletter for August 2018

GET THE LATEST NEWS FROM GRAIN FARMERS OF ONTARIO

August 2018 - GrainTALK Grain Farmers of Ontario has developed a new way to communicate with our farmer-members — GrainTALK. We want to share the best information and we want that information to be easy to find and…
GFO Newsletter for June/July 2018

GET THE LATEST NEWS FROM GRAIN FARMERS OF ONTARIO

August 2018 - GRAIN DISCOVERY ZONE The Grain Discovery Zone educational trailer is off to an early start this fair season with a trip to the Earlton Farm Show, April 12 – 14. The trailer features a corn…
Web Special

New U.S. Farm Bill

ISSUES STILL TO BE RESOLVED

August 2018 - AS THE U.S. Congress went into recess for the month of August, the Senate and the House of Representatives had each passed a 2018 farm bill, but the versions differed on key provisions and will…