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GFO Newsletter for October 2012

October 2012 - GET THE LATEST NEWS FROM GRAIN FARMERS OF ONTARIO Annual District Meetings Your 2013 annual District Grain Farmers of Ontario meetings have been called. The meetings are called to receive reports and elect the District…
Free Trade with Japan

October 2012 - ADDING VALUE FOR GRAIN FARMERS canada is currently negotiating a free trade agreement with Japan and Grain Farmers of Ontario was asked in June 2012 to make a presentation to the Standing Committee on Trade…
In the news

October 2012 - NEWS BITES THAT MATTER Government investment in Canadian wheat The federal government has announced that Neo Ventures Biotechnology Inc., will receive $106,222 to help bring to market their innovative Targeted Chiasma (TouCH) Platform technology. This…
Crop year review

October 2012 - TAKE THE TIME TO DO A FALL ASSESSMENT harvest is winding down so you’re done with cropping for the year right? Mostly yes, but it’s worth taking a little bit of time to take a…
Fallout from the US drought

October 2012 - FOOD VERSUS FUEL DEBATE REVIVED optimists point out that even with a drought-induced 13% drop in yields, the United States is projected to harvest 10.8 billion bushels (bbu) of corn this year – a crop…
In the news

October 2012 - NEWS BITES THAT MATTER Government investment in Canadian wheat The federal government has announced that Neo Ventures Biotechnology Inc., will receive $106,222 to help bring to market their innovative Targeted Chiasma (TouCH) Platform technology. This…
Pristine Gourmet

October 2012 - BUILDING A VALUE-ADDED BUSINESS jason persall doesn’t like to consider his story a success story. “We’re just a small farm family that did something value-added a few years ago,” he claims. However, there’s no denying…
The advantage of purple

October 2012 - HOW ONE WHEAT VARIETY IS SHADES ABOVE THE REST consider all the great research being done worldwide to improve grain crops and a wheat breeding program focused on kernel colour might seem somewhat absurd. But…
The future of wheat breeding

FROM THE CEO'S DESK

October 2012 - WHILE MANY OF the details in Growing Forward 2 and the 2013 federal budget for agriculture have yet to be worked out, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) has made the decision to eliminate the winter…
The Big Picture: Farming and the War of 1812

September 2012 - WHAT NON-FARMERS ARE SAYING ABOUT FARMING in june of 1812, the Americans declared war on Great Britain and the British North American colonies. They attempted to invade both Upper and Lower Canada (modern-day Ontario and…