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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…
Ontario farmers good stewards

January 2016 - VITUCCI FAMILY WINS CLEANFARMS CHALLENGE CLEANFARMS ISSUED A challenge to all commercial farmers in Ontario this April to share their stories of environmentally friendly farming practices. The winners they announced in the fall represent the…
Optimizing your production system

January 2016 - A PREVIEW OF YIELDSMART 2016 EVERYONE WANTS HIGH yields and high profits; however, we don’t always achieve that goal. This can be for a number of reasons but typically we blame it on the weather,…
Niche wheat market development

January 2016 - A TANGIBLE BENEFIT OF PBR IT’S BEEN LESS than a year since the Plant Breeders’ Rights Act (PBR91) was updated at the end of February 2015. This move, long awaited by Canadian and international seed…
Research roundup

December 2015 - FIND OUT WHAT’S NEW IN THE WORLD OF RESEARCH Researchers discover stress response mechanism in plants Kyra Lightburn Plants aren’t psychic, yet they can sense the presence of weeds even before they are out-competed for…
Women in agriculture

December 2015 - LEADERSHIP ON THE FARM IF YOU ATTEND virtually any meeting of any agriculture group, or any conference aimed at primary producers, there is one guarantee — there are a lot of men in the room.…
Cropside: Pest manager app

AGRONOMIC INFORMATION FROM ONTARIO'S CROP SPECIALISTS

December 2015 - THE PEST MANAGER app, launched in May 2015, is an identification and treatment tool that can be used to manage weeds, insects, and diseases in your corn, soybeans, or cereals. Pests can be searched by…
2016 Faces of Farming calendar

December 2015 - FARMER COMBINES AERONAUTICS WITH AGRICULTURE IT’S BEEN NEARLY 112 years since the Wright brothers successfully completed the world’s first heavier-than-air flight, and almost 113 years since Norm Lamothe’s farm was first cultivated by his wife’s…