Cap and Trade
FROM THE CEO'S DESK
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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…
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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… -
Be compaction aware!
A FARMSMART FOCUS
- SOIL COMPACTION SEEMS to be a fact of life in most farming operations. We all seem to have it at different extremes at different points in time. While compaction is most often associated with a… -
Chairing corn seed production quality
ONTARIO'S SECRETS TO SUCCESS
- SEED CORN GROWERS in southwestern Ontario produce some of the best quality seed in the world and the reasons why are clearly exemplified by Jeff Wilson. Wilson is the current chair of the Seed Corn… -
GFO Newsletter for January 2017
- GET THE LATEST NEWS FROM GRAIN FARMERS OF ONTARIO Canadian Field Crop Cluster – request for letters of intent The Canadian Field Crop Research Alliance (CFCRA) has begun the development of a Canadian field crop… -
Barley intensification
CLOSE COST ANALYSIS REQUIRED
- AT THE 2016 harvest, we saw much less barley come to market in the Guelph area. Many Ontario barley growers were down on average yields, but there were still a lot that were above average.… -
Ontario corn into 2017
- FOR ONTARIO CORN producers, the marketing challenge ahead is great. The story in the grains sector is one of great surpluses. In 2016, American farmers produced the biggest corn crop on record. With benign weather…