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Preparing for (another) disease siege

November 2013 - CANADIAN RESEARCH INTO UG99 CANADIAN RESEARCHERS CONTINUE to advance global efforts to fight back against the devastating stem rust disease known as Ug99 and their work may offer the key to fortifying farmer’s defenses in…
Landowner principles

November 2013 - NATIONAL GROUP PREPARES FOR PIPELINE NEGOTIATIONS TRANSPORTING OIL COULD soon be added to your land’s job description through a proposed pipeline project by TransCanada. From Alberta to New Brunswick, impacted landowners are currently being notified,…
Digging down for better crop yields

November 2013 - UTILIZING SUBSURFACE DRIP IRRIGATION PRECIPITATION CHALLENGES ARE a lot less challenging for one Norfolk County farm that plants their crops on Ontario’s sand plains. It is one of the first farms in the province to…
Top 10 precision ag mistakes

November 2013 - ADVICE FROM THE FIELD MEET TIM NORRIS. He is the CEO of Ag Info Tech LLC, a precision technology and consulting business in Gambier, Ohio. Norris has been working with clients for 17 years, and…
Business side: Farmland values

CONVERSATIONS WITH BUSINESS EXPERTS

November 2013 - What trend are you seeing in the farmland real estate market? It looks like we hit our market highs in February – March of this year which means we will still be setting a new…
Field surveillance

November 2013 - UAV TAKES SCOUTING TO A HIGHER LEVEL THOMPSONS IS TAKING precision agriculture to new heights with an aerial scouting drone that was launched this year. E.A.R.L. – an acronym for Enhanced Aerial Reconnaissance Land-surveyor –…
The next generation?

November 2013 - INCREASING ROBOTICS IN AGRICULTURE SOONER, RATHER THAN later, unmanned robotic vehicles will not just be the stuff of spy movies, war torn battlefields and missions to Mars. Instead, they could be pulling your grain cart…
A national presence

FROM THE CEO'S DESK

November 2013 - AS A PROVINCIAL commodity organization it is our job to provide value to our farmer-members and help to ensure a strong future within the grain industry. To do that effectively, we need to have a…
Web Special

Know your market

October 2013 - UNDERSTANDING THE FEED MARKET THERE ARE OPPORTUNITIES for grain farmers interested in tapping livestock feed markets – but feed specialists advise producers to do their homework before any seed is planted. “If you’re going to…
Future of Grain

October 2013 - HIGHLIGHTING THE LATEST TECHNOLOGY IN GRAIN PRODUCTION AND UTILIZATION A different look at food traceability The Value Chain Management Centre (VCMC) and SCS Consulting (SCS) recently released a research paper concerning food traceability, entitled “Traceability…