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GFO Newsletter for February 2017

February 2017 - GET THE LATEST NEWS FROM GRAIN FARMERS OF ONTARIO MEETINGS WITH CROP COMMITTEES In January, the Ontario Cereal Crop Committee (OCCC) and the Ontario Soybean and Canola Committees (OSACC) held their main annual meetings. Members…
Bacteria control of disease

CANADIAN SCIENTISTS AT THE FOREFRONT

February 2017 - SEVERAL TYPES OF bacteria are the focus of ground-breaking new Fusarium research here in Ontario. Professor Manish Raizada of the Department of Plant Agriculture at the University of Guelph, with colleagues Dr. Victor Limay-Rios and…
Hybrid wheat

NEW SYNGENTA RESEARCH

February 2017 - “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…
Winter wheat growth

DOES INTENSIVE MANAGEMENT PAY?

February 2017 - 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

February 2017 - 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

February 2017 - 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

February 2017 - 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

February 2017 - 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

January 2017 - 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

January 2017 - 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)…