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Market side: Futures trading basics

LESSON 19: TECHNICAL ANALYSIS, CHARTING

August 2016 - This monthly educational series will feature the basic workings of the futures and options markets and how they can be utilized to help farmers with risk management. BAR CHARTS The first choice in charting in…
Fall burndown

August 2016 - TIPS FOR A WEED FREE 2017 “BE READY TO pounce.” That’s the advice of Mike Cowbrough, weed management lead at the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs, on fitting in a fall application…
The resistance movement

August 2016 - IT’S ABOUT MORE THAN GLYPHOSATE WEED EXPERTS AT Iowa State University (ISU) are warning farmers in the U.S. Corn Belt that herbicide resistance is not just a glyphosate issue that can be solved by turning…
U.S. grain crop update

August 2016 - REACHING THEIR POTENTIAL IN 2016? AMERICAN GRAIN FARMERS got 2016 crops off to a quick start as planting moved faster than usual for commodities in the grains and oilseeds sector. By May 15, barley…
The cost of politics

August 2016 - MEASURING THE IMPACT OF REGULATIONS REGULATIONS RESTRICTING THE sale and use of neonicotinoid treated corn and soybean seeds in Ontario came into effect July 1, 2015. Despite the efforts of Grain Farmers of Ontario and…
#grainbugs

August 2016 - DOCUMENTING THE IMPACT OF REGULATIONS GRAIN FARMERS OF ONTARIO asked farmer-members to document their experiences planting without neonicotinoids this spring. This feedback is being used to measure how the neonicotinoid regulations are impacting agriculture in…
Ontario crop update

August 2016 - SPRING CHALLENGES AND SUMMER OUTLOOK BARLEY AND OATS According to Craig Martin, operations manager, Cribit Seeds, planting went well, with most spring cereals planted in a timely manner. There were some situations where the seed…
Investing in oats

August 2016 - FIRST FUNDED RESEARCH PROJECT UNDERWAY THE FIRST OAT research project funded by Grain Farmers of Ontario is underway. After the organization took on representation of oats in 2015, the research department broadened its yearly call…
An uncertain future

FROM THE CEO'S DESK

August 2016 - FARMERS IN ONTARIO are early adopters of new technology. Access to precision farming tools has lowered input costs, new chemistry has improved yields, and advancements in breeding and genetics has produced crops with the characteristics…
Web Special

An agvocacy lesson

June 2016 - DEFENDING AGRICULTURE IN THE CLASSROOM “The pesticides farmers are using will cause bees to go extinct in five years.” When Braden and Shylah Hart heard that statement in their grade 9 Issues in Canadian Geography…