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Impact assessment

FROM THE CEO'S DESK

June 2016 - SAYING IT’S BEEN a challenging planting season for grain farmers across the province would be an understatement. I can’t count how many stories we’ve heard across the countryside of farmers struggling with issues with the…
Future of grain

April 2016 - HIGHLIGHTING THE LATEST TECHNOLOGY IN GRAIN PRODUCTION AND UTILIZATION Who are you following? Farmers are using Twitter to stay connected and up to date with industry news. Each month, Ontario Grain Farmer magazine will highlight…
Wide open

April 2016 - THE PROS AND CONS OF MOVING TO WIDER SOYBEAN ROWS GROWERS IN ONTARIO are moving towards wider row spacing for soybeans in an effort to save time and money. Wider row spacing is becoming a…
A proactive plan

April 2016 - WHITE MOULD COULD BE THE BIG SOYBEAN ISSUE FOR 2016 HOW DO YOU manage a disease that growers and researchers have struggled to get a handle on for years? PHOTO: WHITE MOULD OFTEN SHOWS UP…
Research roundup

April 2016 - FIND OUT WHAT’S NEW IN THE WORLD OF RESEARCH Name your nemesis Which weed makes you see red? What pesky plant can you not get rid of or is spreading faster than you can say…
Caring for rented land

SHOULD SOIL HEALTH BE A PART OF RENTAL AGREEMENTS

April 2016 - IN ONTARIO, MORE than four million acres of farmland is rented, leased, or share-cropped, representing 35 per cent of total provincial farmland. This number has been steadily increasing, up from 23 per cent in 1975.…
A plan for resistant fleabane

April 2016 - CANADA FLEABANE REQUIRES MULTI-YEAR MANAGEMENT GLYPHOSATE-RESISTANT Canada fleabane first appeared in Ontario in Essex County in 2010. At that time only a few fields were affected. Over a five-year period, however, the number of affected…
Cropside: Assessing winter wheat

AGRONOMIC INFORMATION FROM ONTARIO'S CROP SPECIALISTS

April 2016 - THIS YEAR’S WINTER wheat crop got off to a great start thanks to excellent weather conditions last fall which gave many growers the opportunity to get the crop in early. Many fields had excellent stands…
Save the starter N

April 2016 - FEW CONDITIONS WARRANT STARTER NITROGEN ON SOYBEANS A LOT OF nitrogen goes into producing a bumper soybean crop but researchers still seem to agree there’s no economic advantage to applying a nitrogen (N) starter in…
Interseeding cover crops in corn

April 2016 - PRESERVING CORN YIELD WHILE IMPROVING SOIL ADDING NUTRIENTS, PREVENTING erosion, and increasing microbial activity are just some of the goals when adding cover crops to a rotation. Interseeding cover crops in corn is gaining popularity…