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Cropside: Introducing

AGRONOMIC INFORMATION FROM ONTARIO'S CROP SPECIALISTS

January 2016 - THE ONTARIO MINISTRY of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs (OMAFRA) announced two new field crop specialists at the end of October. They will join the rotation of specialists offering agronomic advice on this page in…
Resistance points

HOW TO USE THEM AS PRICING TARGETS

January 2016 - QUITE OFTEN FARMERS are told to follow a three part process for developing their marketing; work out your cost of production, understand the seasonal patterns of the commodity futures that set the prices you receive,…
A market for Ontario barley

MAKE STORAGE PART OF YOUR PLAN

January 2016 - THERE IS A place for growing barley in Ontario. The hard part, as a cash crop farmer, is knowing how to work with it when there is no guaranteed market. The amount of barley used…
Challenging market conditions

January 2016 - FACTORS AFFECTING CORN PRICES FOR ONTARIO CORN farmers, a changing world is always our challenge. In 2015, we grew 2.035 million acres of corn, an increase from 1.9 million acres the year before. It was…
Shifting focus

January 2016 - A NEW TREND IN THE WINTER WHEAT MARKET THERE IS A fundamental shift coming in Ontario’s winter wheat market. As we transition from 2015’s unusually small crop into 2016’s near record supply, the manner in…
Market side: Futures trading basics

LESSON 14: LEVERAGE

January 2016 - This monthly educational series features the basic workings of the futures and options markets and how they can be utilized to help farmers with risk management. THE FUTURES MARKETS are a prime example when discussing…
Taking advantage of market demand

January 2016 - ONTARIO’S SOFT RED WINTER WHEAT SUCCESS ACCORDING TO LEGENDARY investor Warren Buffet, “A rising tide lifts all boats. It is not until the tide goes out that you realize who is swimming naked.” For commodity…
Up the creek

FROM THE CEO'S DESK

January 2016 - IN NOVEMBER, MONTREAL made international news when city officials decided to let eight billion litres of raw sewage spill into the St. Lawrence River in order to make repairs to the city’s sewer infrastructure. There…
Future of grain

January 2016 - HIGHLIGHTING THE LATEST TECHNOLOGY IN GRAIN PRODUCTION AND UTILIZATION Authority herbicide now available to eastern Canadian soybean growers FMC of Canada has announced the registration of Authority 480 herbicide for eastern Canadian soybean crops. Previously…
Business side: Family communication

CONVERSATIONS WITH BUSINESS EXPERTS

January 2016 - (R.H.) HOW DO YOU RECOMMEND FARM FAMILIES START TALKING ABOUT SUCCESSION PLANNING? (R.C.) Good decision making requires excellent communication. There are two types of families — one who finds communication easy to do as part…