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What’s new in cover crops?

April 2014 - THE LATEST RESEARCH RESULTS INTEREST IN COVER crops has peaked in the past few years, says Anne Verhallen, Soil Management Specialist with the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food (OMAF). Increased interest means more funding…
Business side: Risk Management Program

CONVERSATIONS WITH BUSINESS EXPERTS

April 2014 - WHAT IS THE BENEFIT OF THE RISK MANAGEMENT PROGRAM (RMP)? For many grain farmers, it is helpful to know they have a plan in place to help offset the negative effects related to market conditions.…
Resilient to the core

April 2014 - 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…
The big squeeze on yields

April 2014 - 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

April 2014 - 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

April 2014 - 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

March 2014 - 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

March 2014 - 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

March 2014 - 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

March 2014 - 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…