Straw yield
MEASURING PROFITABILITY
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THE PROFITABILITY OF straw could be the deciding factor in whether or not you keep wheat in your crop rotation. It’s one of the reasons the Ontario Cereal Crops Committee (OCCC) included a pilot project…
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Canada’s Food Guide
HOW AND WHAT WE EAT
- CANADA’S FOOD GUIDE, which is developed by Health Canada, is currently undergoing revision. The aim of Canada’s Food Guide is to assist people in making healthy food choices and to promote the nutritional health of… -
Understanding precision agriculture
WHY DATA COLLECTION MATTERS TO YOUR FARM
- BY THE TIME their equipment gets parked for the season, another kind of harvest is already getting underway when farmers grab their yield data off the combine. Karon Cowan, owner of AgTech GIS, has been involved in… -
Cropside: Managing stripe rust
AGRONOMIC INFORMATION FROM ONTARIO'S CROP SPECIALISTS
- IN 2016, THE milder winter conditions resulted in early leaf and stripe rust infections in Tennessee and Kentucky. This resulted in rust spores being blown into Ontario earlier than we typically see. By mid-May 2016,… -
Identifying plant stress
THE USE OF THERMODYNAMICS
- ALTHOUGH VETERINARIANS AND doctors rely on thermometers to improve their daily diagnoses, field agronomists lack an equivalent tool of their own. But with two researchers studying the impact thermodynamic principles could have on precision agriculture,… -
A taxing issue
FROM THE CEO'S DESK
- A FAMILY FARM is a business. A farmer is a business person. Therefore, small business tax changes proposed by the federal government will have an impact on farmers. That seems fairly straightforward; but apparently someone… -
Dicamba damage on U.S. fields
ESTIMATES TOP THREE MILLION ACRES
- HEADING INTO THE soybean harvest, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) extension experts put instances of dicamba damage to the crop at 3.1 million acres, approximately 3.5% of U.S. soybean plantings this year. That figure could… -
Sugar corn instead of sugar cane
A CANADIAN CROP FOR BIOFUEL AND BIOPRODUCTS
- SUGAR CORN, A novel breed of corn with high sucrose levels, is being researched at the University of Guelph for its potential use in biofuel and bioproduct production. Using a simple, cost-effective, and fast-acting method,… -
The path to better crop protection
FROM IDEA TO MARKET
- WAYNE BARTON’S METHOD for developing agricultural crop protection products is to stay one or two steps ahead of Mother Nature. Barton, BASF’s manager of research and commercial development for Canada, may have a formula that… -
Showcasing modern agriculture
TECH PARK AT THE IPM
- SUSTAINABILITY AND MODERN farming practices go hand in hand. Grain Farmers of Ontario highlighted this relationship at the 2017 International Plowing Match and Rural Expo (IPM) in Walton with the Tech Park. This is the…