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Greening through regulation

April 2016 - FARMERS’ PLACE IN THE EU’S GREEN ECONOMY FIRST INTRODUCED IN 1962, the European Union’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is a system that implements agricultural subsidies and other programs. Every year, CAP provides some €50–60 of…
Cap and cost

April 2016 - WHAT ONTARIO’S CARBON ECONOMY MEANS FOR FARMERS THE CAP AND trade regulation that Ontario has proposed to implement January 1, 2017 may be another costly burden for grain and oilseed farmers to shoulder, if the…
Building a 4R strategy

FOLLOWING THE 4RS REDUCES NUTRIENT LOSSES

April 2016 - TWO YEARS AGO, in 2014, Grain Farmers of Ontario, the Ontario Agri-Business Association, and Fertilizer Canada began work on a 4R Nutrient Stewardship Demonstration Farm program. “Through this program we recruited fifteen crop farmers to…
Protecting Lake Erie

PREPARING FOR NUTRIENT REDUCTION TARGETS

April 2016 - IT WAS FORTY-FOUR years ago in 1972 when the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement (GLWQA) came into being. It was all about the Great Lakes — a commitment by the governments of Canada and the…
Market side: Futures trading basics

LESSON 17: TECHNICAL ANALYSIS

April 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. THE DISCUSSION ON technical analysis will consume the…
Make it stay

April 2016 - STRATEGIES FOR REDUCING SOIL MOVEMENT DRIVING PAST ROLLING Ontario farm landscapes in the fall, Peter Johnson, agronomist for RealAgriculture.com, can see the soil changing colour on some fields. PHOTO: ON ROLLING TOPOGRAPHY, TILLAGE EROSION CAN…
Organizational efficiency

FROM THE CEO'S DESK

April 2016 - IN MID-FEBRUARY, the Manitoba Co-operator published an article about increasing collaboration between organizations and the issue of checkoff fee fatigue across the province. In this piece, the column pointed to Grain Farmers of Ontario as…
Future of grain

March 2016 - HIGHLIGHTING THE LATEST TECHNOLOGY IN GRAIN PRODUCTION AND UTILIZATION Farm biomass to cellulosic sugar viable in Ontario Bioindustrial Innovation Canada (BIC) has completed its economic and technical viability assessment of the agricultural biomass to cellulosic…
Crown rust conundrum

March 2016 - ALTERNATE HOSTS THREATEN RESISTANCE LONGEVITY SOME GROWERS ARE most familiar with oats as a cover crop but crown rust doesn’t discriminate — whether for pony oats, human consumption, or as cover crop, this disease can…
Cropside: Low soil K and weed control

AGRONOMIC INFORMATION FROM ONTARIO'S CROP SPECIALISTS

March 2016 - SOILS THAT TEST “low” in potassium can negatively affect weed control in soybean. When soils test low for potassium (K), soybean plants will express deficiency symptoms that reduce canopy closer and allow more weeds to…