LESS TIME ONLINE WITH BETTER RESULTS WITH THE INCREASING accessibility of high speed Internet access in rural Ontario, the web has quickly become a business tool many producers can’t live without. The question becomes, it [Read more]
WEB-BASED ACTIVITIES TEACH NON-FARMERS ABOUT FARMING WHEN IT COMES to talking to consumers about food and farming, agriculture has two big problems. First, consumers do not know how food is grown and produced. Second, anyone [Read more]
SHOWCASING ONTARIO SOYBEANS’ RENEWABLE POTENTIAL A HOUSE MADE from and designed with soybeans has been built through a partnership between Ontario Soybean Growers, Quality Engineered Homes Ltd., and Habitat for Humanity. The 1200 square foot Soy [Read more]
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT NEW TECHNOLOGIES WITH NEW TRANSGENIC Bt corn products on the market from Monsanto and Dow AgroSciences, farmers need to be aware of changing refuge requirements in their field. Planting [Read more]
A SECOND LOOK AT ETHANOL AND THE PORK INDUSTRY SEVERAL REPORTS PUBLISHED over the past three years by the George Morris Centre postulate that the ethanol industry in Canada has a negative impact on the [Read more]
FIND OUT WHAT’S NEW IN THE WORLD OF RESEARCH Improved soybean variety high in antioxidants Joey Sabljic A new, healthier soybean variety could be grown in Ontario fields within five years, says a University of [Read more]
The program is free of charge and available to all farmers as long as products brought in for collection meet necessary requirements. FROM OCTOBER 20 TO 22, farmers will be able to bring their obsolete [Read more]
UNDERSTANDING THE ONTARIO WHEAT BOARD’S NEW POSITION DESPITE BEING FIGURATIVELY set on the backburner for the past five years, the debate surrounding biotechnology in wheat has recently become part of the conversation in the countryside. [Read more]
NEWS BITES THAT MATTER Soybean Young Leader Each year, the Ontario Soybean Growers (OSG) sponsors one couple or individual from Ontario to take part in the American Soybean Association/Dupont Young Leader Program. The program’s goal [Read more]
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