Resilient to the core
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PLANT AVAILABLE WATER CAPACITY GUIDING A CROP through drought conditions has less to do with the amount of rain a field receives and more to do with the water that is available to the plant…
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The big squeeze on yields
- SOIL COMPACTION WHILE FARMERS KNOW that soil compaction can weigh heavily on yields, many may not realize they have it in their fields or that they may be contributing to the problem. Dale Cowan, Senior… -
Managing the seasonal transition
- UNDERSTANDING WINTER’S IMPACT ON SPRING CONDITIONS WHEN ONTARIANS THINK about the winter of 2013/2014, cold temperatures and heavy snowfall are likely to come to mind. As seasons change growers become anxious to work the land,… -
Grain transportation
FROM THE CEO'S DESK
- PEOPLE WHO KNOW I am still active with our family farm in southeastern Saskatchewan often stop and ask me about our farming operation and what’s happening in western grain markets. Lately, those discussions have centered… -
Ag Safety Week
- TECHNOLOGY: CAUSE AND SOLUTION TO SAFETY ISSUES THE WEEK OF March 9 — 15 marks this year’s annual Ag Safety Week presented by the Canadian Agricultural Safety Association and the Canadian Federation of Agriculture. While… -
Future of Grain
- HIGHLIGHTING THE LATEST TECHNOLOGY IN GRAIN PRODUCTION AND UTILIZATION Oats and barley Grain Farmers of Ontario has been approached to have a discussion about oat and barley growers joining Grain Farmers of Ontario. If you… -
Grains in Action
- FUTURE FARM LEADERS CONSUMERS WANT TO know where the food they purchase has come from and how ingredients are used in the manufacturing process of the foods they eat. Farmers, as the primary producers of… -
Ice, energy, and food
- AN UNLIKELY TRIANGLE “EVERY NATION NOW lives in what I call an ice-dependent world,” says Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, President of Iceland, “where the mass of the arctic sea ice in my neighborhood causes extreme weather… -
Cropside: Early planting and SDS
AGRONOMIC INFORMATION FROM ONTARIO'S CROP SPECIALISTS
- THE ONTARIO MINISTRY of Agriculture and Food, along with Grain Farmers of Ontario, obtained funding from the Ontario Farm Innovation Program (OFIP) for a joint project with the North Central Soybean Research Program to reduce… -
Ontario sulphur trials
- VARYING RESULTS THERE IS GREAT debate as to whether or not producers should add sulphur in the form of sulphate to their soils, and if so, how much. Unfortunately, there is no clear-cut answer. The…
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Tar spot prevention
TIPS FROM GRAIN FARMERS OF ONTARIO’S AGRONOMY TEAM
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Original article: Tar spot in Ontario MANY ACROSS THE province have heard about tar spot – southwestern Ontario and the Greater Toronto area have seen pressure. The disease was first detected in 2020; however, in…
From the CEO’s desk – June/July 2025
From the CEO's desk
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Spring has sprung, and by the time you read this in June, hopefully, most of you are well on your way to finishing up #plant25. As I write this in early May, equipment is starting…