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The future of wheat

June 2015 - THE BREEDER’S PERSPECTIVE WEB SPECIALMUCH LIKE FARMERS needing to anticipate markets, weather, and availability when ordering seed many months before planting, plant breeders face the unique challenge of solving today’s problems while anticipating future issues.…
Instagram ambassadors

June 2015 - A GOOD IN EVERY GRAIN PROGRAM FIVE INFLUENTIAL ONTARIO grain farmers have been selected as Good Grain Farmers for the Good in Every Grain Instagram account. They will share daily the life of Ontario grain…
Farmer style

June 2015 - PETERSON FARM BROS EDUCATE AND ENTERTAIN NOWADAYS, IT’S FAIRLY easy to get your 15 seconds of fame. The rise of social media, and especially YouTube, has created superstars virtually overnight. More challenging than becoming famous…
Seed money

June 2015 - THE FUTURE OF TRANSGENIC RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CROPLIFE CANADA ESTIMATES that it costs nearly $150 million and more than 13 years to bring new biotechnology to market. That makes it a challenge to correctly predict…
Research roundup

June 2015 - FIND OUT WHAT’S NEW IN THE WORLD OF RESEARCH Rotation profitability app Elisabeth Aerts Complex crop rotations provide yield benefits to Ontario farmers, suggests plant specialists — and they have the mobile application to back…
Cropside: Seed destructor

AGRONOMIC INFORMATION FROM ONTARIO'S CROP SPECIALISTS

June 2015 - RAY HARRINGTON, AN innovative farmer from Western Australia, was struggling with herbicide resistant weeds, so he took matters into his own hands by using a cage mill from an old mine and adapting it to…
Plant Breeders’ Rights

June 2015 - CANADA SIGNS ON TO UPOV’91 IMPORTANT AMENDMENTS TO Canada’s Plant Breeders’ Rights (PBR) Act have been passed into law. These changes bring Canada in line with other countries who have signed on to the 1991…
Understanding precision agriculture

SOIL DATA

June 2015 - THIS ARTICLE IS the fourth in a series intended to introduce and explain the concept of management zones, to provide a process to define, delineate, and characterize management zones, and to outline the kinds of…
Growing RTRS soybeans

June 2015 - LEARNING FROM BRAZIL’S EXPERIENCE SOYBEAN PRODUCTION THAT is environmentally correct, socially appropriate, and economically viable is the expectation of the international Round Table on Responsible Soy (RTRS). The initiative began in 2006 with the goal…
Maintaining an important relationship

June 2015 - SOY CANADA OUTGOING MISSION TO JAPAN JAPAN IS ONE of Canada’s top five soybean export markets. According to Statistics Canada data, Canada exported approximately 370,457 metric tonnes (mt) to Japan in 2014 — accounting for…