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Market side: Futures trading basics

LESSON 32: TECHNICAL ANALYSIS

December 2017 - CANDLESTICK CHARTING Unlike bar charts, candles have a significance all their own. When we read a bar chart, we rely on indicators to discern between a buy signal and a sell signal. The actual bars…
Damaging impact

THE 2017 HURRICANE SEASON

December 2017 - THE 2017 HURRICANE season — Harvey, Irma, Maria, and Nate — savaged a wide range of U.S. agricultural sectors, producing immediate crop losses and longer term damage that is still hard to quantify. TEXAS In…
Feeding the aquaculture industry

AN EXPANDING SOYBEAN MARKET

December 2017 - SOYBEANS ARE A common feedstock for a wide range of agriculture — livestock ranging from dairy cattle to laying hens typically have soy or a soybean derivative incorporated in their feed, due largely in part…
Making no-till planting easier

UTILIZING NEW TECHNOLOGY

December 2017 - A STONEY CREEK company focused on robotic cutting solutions is experimenting with an ultra-high pressure no-till system. A-Cubed (Advanced Agriculture Applications) is using fluid jets in place of coulters on standard, commercially available seeding equipment they’ve…
Your opportunity

FROM THE CEO'S DESK

December 2017 - EVERY MONTH, I use this column to share with you my thoughts on issues affecting the agriculture industry. Over the past year, I’ve discussed taxes, relationships with our elected officials, trade negotiations, national partnerships, environmental…
Straw yield

MEASURING PROFITABILITY

December 2017 - 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…
Canada’s Food Guide

HOW AND WHAT WE EAT

December 2017 - 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

December 2017 - 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

December 2017 - 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

November 2017 - 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,…