Trade talk
FROM THE CEO'S DESK
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I WAS PLEASED to see great attendance at our January District Meetings this year. It showed that our farmer-members have a significant interest in our organization, the work we are doing on their behalf, and…
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Field technician training
ON-FARM APPLICATIONS
- FIELD TECHNICANS PLAY an important role in private and public research programs. Their work includes executing plans for research plots and gathering data from variety performance trials, field crop research, and breeding programs. Technicians come… -
Interseeding cover crops
RESEARCH AT THE HRDC
- RESEARCH SCIENTISTS AT Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada’s (AAFC) Harrow Research & Development Centre (HRDC) have been exploring several angles of how cover crops can benefit both the environment and a farming operation. “Cover crops introduce… -
Keeping tabs
- RECORD KEEPING ON the farm is not just about making life easier for your accountant come income tax season. Whether you are using precision agriculture technologies to capture data, using Excel or another database to… -
Lessons from the past
2016 NUFFIELD SCHOLAR FINAL REPORT
- FOR TONY BALKWILL, the 2016 Grain Farmers of Ontario Nuffield Scholar, the Nuffield journey is coming to a close. Balkwill used the scholarship to develop historical soil-type maps into field-scale management zones. The Grain Farmers… -
Compaction action
TAKING DEEPER CARE OF THE SOIL
- IF YOU’RE CAREFUL about keeping your fully-loaded sprayer out of wet spots and not leaving big ruts, then it’s not doing any real damage, right? Not quite. In fact, the damage and long-term effects caused… -
Market side: Futures trading basics
LESSON 35: TECHNICAL ANALYSIS
- CANDLESTICK CHARTING This lesson we will continue to explore basic candles. HAMMER AND HANGING MAN If I had to guess which candles rank in order of importance after the doji, I would have to say… -
Paying for power
INCREASE EFFICIENCY FOR DECREASED COSTS
- ALTHOUGH ON-FARM energy efficiency has improved in many areas, we’re also using more energy than ever before — larger operations call for more power to run more equipment. And despite farmers continuously implementing energy-efficient technology,… -
New screening technology
AN ADVANTAGE FOR WHEAT BREEDERS
- IN 2016, STATISTICS Canada anticipated that Canadian wheat production would decline by 19.5 per cent in 2017, attributing the decline to dry conditions in the prairies. But Western Canada isn’t the only region in the… -
Cropside: WBC thresholds/timing
AGRONOMIC INFORMATION FROM ONTARIO'S CROP SPECIALISTS
- DELAYS IN PLANTING over the last few years have, in many regions, aligned the corn stages that the Western bean cutworm (WBC) moth prefers to lay her eggs on (pre-tassel to full tassel) and peak…