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Pest threats are changing

WHAT CAN BE DONE ABOUT IT?

August 2024 - CLIMATE CHANGE AND ITS IMPACTS ON FOOD PRODUCTION ARE OFTEN SPOKEN OF AS FUTURE EVENTS. For Tracey Baute, field crop etymologist with the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Agribusiness, the effects of warmer winters,…
Growing great wheat

LEARNINGS FROM THE U.K. YEN

August 2024 - IN JUNE 2024, THREE MEMBERS OF THE GREAT LAKES YIELD ENHANCEMENT NETWORK (YEN) LEADERSHIP TEAM TRAVELLED TO THE UNITED KINGDOM TO MEET FARMERS who have participated in the U.K. YEN for over a decade, learning…
Ongoing European farm protests

PRODUCERS CHOKED BY RED TAPE AND ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY

August 2024 - FARMERS ACROSS THE EUROPEAN UNION HAVE BEEN PROTESTING ISSUES driven, for the most part, by failed policy since early 2024. The reasons behind the protests differ from country to country, but most centre around escalating…
GrainTALK for August 2024

AN UPDATE ON GRAIN FARMERS OF ONTARIO NEWS AND EVENTS

August 2024 - YOUR GRAIN FARMERS OF ONTARIO TEAM Here is our next installment of profiles of your Grain Farmers of Ontario staff to help introduce you to the team. MAGGIE POLLARD, COMMUNICATIONS INTERN Maggie Pollard joined Grain…
Observations from Brazil

WHAT BRAZIL CAN TEACH US ABOUT ENVIRONMENTAL PRESERVATION

August 2024 - EDITOR’S NOTE Matt McIntosh is a regular contributor to Ontario Grain Farmer and is a 2024 contemporary Nuffield Scholar, researching initiatives helping landowners conserve or re-establish ecologically and culturally significant areas — without harming farm…
Introducing GM wheat

ARGENTINE VARIETY RECEIVES APPROVAL IN BRAZIL AND PARAGUAY

August 2024 - IN 2021, THE GLOBAL WHEAT MARKET FIRST HEARD THE NEWS ABOUT A DROUGHT-TOLERANT WHEAT VARIETY developed and registered by Bioceres Crop Solutions, a company based in Argentina. It was finally going to happen; after years…
Soil health management systems

CROSS-BORDER PROJECT COULD LEAD TO FARM SAVINGS

August 2024 - ADOPTING A ‘SOIL HEALTH MANAGEMENT SYSTEM’ MAY SOUND DAUNTING, but many of you reading this are already implementing some of the practices — and a new study encompassing Canadian and U.S. farmers shows the economic…
Navigating farm succession

CONVERSATIONS WITH BUSINESS EXPERTS

August 2024 - (J.M.) WHAT DO FARMERS NEED TO KNOW ABOUT SUCCESSION PLANNING? (M.V.) Most people don’t know that, if done well, there’s power in building a farm succession plan. It is more than tax planning and legal…
Opening the Cuban market

PRIVATE ENTERPRISE EXPANDS OPPORTUNITY

August 2024 - CANADA’S CONNECTION WITH ONE OF ITS FAVOURITE TOURIST DESTINATIONS, CUBA, MAY BE POISED TO REACH A NEW LEVEL — one that could be a changing market opportunity for Ontario specialty grain producers and help save…
Global insights

FROM THE CEO'S DESK

August 2024 - IN JUNE, JEFF HARRISON AND I TRAVELLED TO WISMAR, GERMANY, TO PARTICIPATE IN THE 26TH INTERNATIONAL OILSEED PRODUCERSDIALOGUE (IOPD). Hosted by Germany’s Union for the Protection of Oil and Protein Crops, the IOPD included representatives…