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Pre-harvest payments for RMP

January 2014 - HOW YOUR PAYMENT WAS PROCESSED LAST YEAR’S PROVINCIAL budget included the continuation of the Risk Management Program (RMP), with $100 million in available funding each year. To ensure that all producers who trigger payments at…
Market Analysis

January 2014 - GRAIN INDUSTRY INSIGHTS IT IS SHAPING up to be the year of the big surplus in the corn market. With the potential of a record US corn crop harvested in 2013, market analysts and insiders…
Meeting your needs

FROM THE CEO'S DESK

January 2014 - AS WE ENTER into the fourth year of our organization, we continue to gain momentum with our work on behalf of our farmer-members. In order to continue this success, we need your involvement and input.…
Future of Grain

December 2013 - HIGHLIGHTING THE LATEST TECHNOLOGY IN GRAIN PRODUCTION AND UTILIZATION NRC and industry to turn biomass into plastics and composites The Honourable Greg Rickford, Minister of State (Science and Technology), along with the National Research Council…
For the love of wagon wheels

December 2013 - HOW ONE MAN’S PASSION CREATED A FAMILY LEGACY FRED WEAGANT WAS a dairy farmer and a grocer before he discovered the work he really wanted to do – and 60 years later, the family business…
Faces of farming

December 2013 - FARM & FOOD CARE RELEASES 2014 CALENDAR TAKE A GLIMPSE into Darcy Smith’s world and it is hard to believe he has time for anything extra. He is a proud dad to four young children,…
Cropside: The new nemesis

AGRONOMIC INFORMATION FROM ONTARIO'S CROP SPECIALISTS

December 2013 - GLYPHOSATE RESISTANT CANADA fleabane is spreading rapidly across the province. If you do not have it yet, you likely will very soon. Fall asleep on this one and the impact will be massive. Fall weed…
Tax planning

December 2013 - TIPS FOR REDUCING YOUR TAX PAYMENTS STEVE VAN DEN HENGELl is a chartered accountant and one of eleven partners at Famme & Company Professional Corporation. They have three offices: one in Stratford, one in London,…
Research roundup

December 2013 - FIND OUT WHAT’S NEW IN THE WORLD OF RESEARCH A new online tool for producers Samantha Beattie Social media sites and websites are emerging as effective outlets for producers to share their field crop expertise…
Understanding biotechnology

December 2013 - A TOUR OF A DUPONT PIONEER PLANT BREEDING FACILITY FOR A GENETICALLY modified (GM)?plant, the road to commercialization is long and tedious, but extremely interesting. From discovery to launch, it takes GM products anywhere from…