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Cropside: Sulphur solution!

AGRONOMIC INFORMATION FROM ONTARIO'S CROP SPECIALISTS

February 2013 - SULPHUR WAS THE “buzzword” in the winter of 2012. It was a part of every presentation I gave. So much sulphur was purchased last spring that we “ran out”, or shorted the market. Prices increased…
Talking agriculture with non-farmers

February 2013 - A REVEALING EXPERIENCE AND A CALL TO ACTION farmers feed cities. It’s as simple as that, right? As the communications assistant for Farmers Feed Cities during the summer and fall of 2012, this is a…
Field tested: Poettinger 5000T Terradisc

February 2013 - POETTINGER 5000T TERRADISC A review by farmers for farmers ed tollenaar jeff van loon dave vandewalle MONKTON, ON DUBLIN, ON DUBLIN, ON the poettinger 5000T…
GFO Newsletter for February 2013

February 2013 - GET THE LATEST NEWS FROM GRAIN FARMERS OF ONTARIO Annual District meetings Thank you to all our farmer-members who attended Grain Farmers of Ontario’s Annual District Meetings in January. These meetings are called to receive…
Faces of Farming

February 2013 - THE STORY BEHIND THE PICTURE former junior hockey player Justin Dorland has learned that, as an eighth generation farmer, working with the land and animals runs too deep in his blood for him to leave…
Future of Grain

February 2013 - HIGHLIGHTING THE LATEST TECHNOLOGY IN GRAIN PRODUCTION AND UTILIZATION New website connects renters and landowners Grain farmers looking for more land to grow their operation now have a new resource to find rentable acres. The…
20 years of crop rotation

February 2013 - A LONG-TERM APPROACH TO RESEARCH for decades now, plant researchers like the University of Guelph’s Dave Hooker, Assistant Professor in the Department of Plant Agriculture (Ridgetown Campus), and Bill Deen, Associate Professor in the Department…
In the news

February 2013 - NEWS BITES THAT MATTER New seed treatment technology and equipment for cereal and specialty crops Ag Growth International Inc.(AGI) and Bayer CropScience Inc. have entered into an agreement for the development and distribution of a…
High-yielding research

February 2013 - INVENTIVENESS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH IN THE EARLY 1900’s, Charles Zavitz, Ontario Agricultural College professor and father of the first widely successful Canadian soybean variety, believed that it was the researcher’s responsibility to make…
Fence row farming

February 2013 - UNCOVERING THE SECRETS IN THE SOIL DEAN GLENNEY PLANTS his corn and soybeans on exactly the same rows, drives on the same tracks, and never tills his fields. It’s a farming method he has used…