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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…
Cropside: Early planting and SDS

AGRONOMIC INFORMATION FROM ONTARIO'S CROP SPECIALISTS

March 2014 - 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

March 2014 - 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…
How cold is too cold?

March 2014 - THE SURVIVAL OF WINTER WHEAT COLD TEMPERATURES ACROSS the United States have left many American farmers wondering if their winter wheat crop will make it through the season. Estimates from early 2014 were already predicting…
Top 10 corn tips for 2014

March 2014 - IDEAS FOR GROWTH HERE ARE MY top tips for 2014. Number one has the most data and research support, as we move towards Number 10 the data gets thinner and the ideas still need to…
GFO Newsletter for March 2014

March 2014 - GET THE LATEST NEWS FROM GRAIN FARMERS OF ONTARIO GRAINS ENROUTE Grain Farmers of Ontario has developed a biofuels ad campaign to run at select ONRoute locations along Ontario’s major highways. The goal is to…
Organic crops

March 2014 - AN ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY A MICHIGAN STATE University educator says his research shows organic farming is full of opportunity and optimism. Dan Rossman, Senior Extension Educator and Product Center Counselor with Michigan State University, talked about…
Research roundup

March 2014 - FIND OUT WHAT’S NEW IN THE WORLD OF RESEARCH Light quality illuminates the importance of early season weed control Brittany Hall Light quality – not just quantity – is being altered in farmers’ fields because…