Hybrid wheat
NEW SYNGENTA RESEARCH
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“CREATING VALUE FOR the wheat industry” — this is the goal Syngenta plans to achieve with hybrid wheat. The integrated crop solutions company identified a need in the market to take wheat to the next…
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Winter wheat growth
DOES INTENSIVE MANAGEMENT PAY?
- WHILE WINTER WHEAT harvested acres are declining in Michigan, yields per acre have increased in recent years, and producer interest in intensive management to further boost yields has grown. In response, researchers at Michigan State… -
Cropside: Sustaining SOM
AGRONOMIC INFORMATION FROM ONTARIO'S CROP SPECIALISTS
- SOIL ORGANIC MATTER (SOM) levels are decreasing in Ontario; something we all intuitively know, but since the decline occurs so slowly, it is easy to ignore. The decline is in part due to less complex… -
Productivity, profitability and resilience
DETERMINING HOW MANAGEMENT AFFECTS SOIL HEALTH
- NEW HIGH TECH monitors will help take the guesswork out of best management practices for grain crops as they relate to soil health in a groundbreaking study funded by Grain Farmers of Ontario. While there… -
What is soil health?
OBSERVATIONS FROM A RESEARCHERS AND AN AGRONOMIST
- WHAT MAKES GOOD dirt has been a hot topic of conversation within the agriculture industry. The terms ‘soil health’ and ‘soil quality’ are widely accepted to mean the same thing, although Cornell University suggests ‘soil… -
Cap and Trade
FROM THE CEO'S DESK
- ON JANUARY 1, the Ontario government’s Cap and Trade program came into effect and it created yet another new operating environment for grain farmers. Cap and Trade is a system which limits how many tonnes… -
An agriculture ambassador
THE 2016 GRAIN DISCOVERY ZONE SEASON
- Brianne Curtis was the Grain Discovery Zone ambassador for the 2016 fair and event season. This is her personal account of her experience touring the province promoting agriculture and the Good in Every Grain. SINCE… -
Cropside: OCC trials
AGRONOMIC INFORMATION FROM ONTARIO'S CROP SPECIALISTS
- A COMMON QUESTION regarding Ontario Corn Committee (OCC) hybrid trials is — how valid are results if practices on my farm are more intensive than the hybrid trials? To help answer this, Intensive Management (IM)… -
Online influence
- “STORYTELLING IS THE essential human activity. The harder the situation, the more essential it is.” ~Tim O’Brien Connecting with the non-farming public is often described as our greatest challenge in agriculture. One could also say,… -
Understanding precision agriculture
WHERE DO MANAGEMENT ZONES MAKE SENSE?
- GROWERS MIGHT KNOW from experience that they have areas in their fields that consistently deliver high yields season after season — and other parts that just aren’t very productive at all. But is having that…