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Beyond standard soil sampling

April 2012 - WHY IT’S IMPORTANT TO KNOW MORE THAN CHEMICAL COMPOSITION odette menard is a firm believer that growers need to take a much closer look at their soil. “We need to see it more as a…
The necessity of grain segregation

April 2012 - IN A POSITION FOR CHANGE ontario produces A very diverse mix of grain crops – and each year new traits, technologies and varieties are added to the complex lineup of products that are grown, stored,…
GFO Newsletter for April 2012

April 2012 - GET THE LATEST NEWS FROM GRAIN FARMERS OF ONTARIO Rural Voices Network launches the ‘Let Your Voice Be Heard’ Survey for Rural Ontario Your Voice is important to rural Ontario! This is the basis for…
Early nitrogen

April 2012 - Peter Johnson, Cereal Specialist, Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs; Kim Ratz, Communications Coordinator, Grain Farmers of Ontario WHEN TO SPRAY OR NOT TO SPRAY there are lots of questions this spring with…
Research roundup

April 2012 - FIND OUT WHAT’S NEW IN THE WORLD OF RESEARCH Planting now for high yields later Natalie Osborne and Joey Sabljic Selecting late maturing soybean varieties and planting them earlier in the growing season has been…
Smart ways to staff up

April 2012 - BECOMING AN EMPLOYER OF CHOICE staff is only for politicians, bureaucrats, and other well-to-do city slickers. Wrong, say ag human resource experts, but they also add that farmers would do well to consider adopting some…
In the news

April 2012 - NEWS BITES THAT MATTER Savvy Farmer offers free version of software Guelph-based The Savvy Farmer Inc. on Tuesday announced the launch of Savvy Farmer lite, a free version of its popular Savvy Farmer software. The…
Space research hits close to home

April 2012 - UNIVERSITY RESEARCHERS ARE CONNECTING THE DOTS BETWEEN SPACE AGRICULTURE AND EARTH-BASED PRODUCTION advancing food production in space and improving your field management may sound like completely unrelated research topics. But according to experts at the…
Getting the dirt on corn nematodes

April 2012 - AN UNDERESTIMATED AND MISDIAGNOSED PARASITE do you have fields or pockets of land that seem to have chronic yield and health problems no matter what strategy you use for crop rotation, weeds, pest management or…
Agriculture-Wildlife Conflict Working Group

FROM THE CEO'S DESK

April 2012 - GRAIN FARMERS OF ONTARIO has been participating on an Agriculture-Wildlife Conflict Working Group for quite some time. Due to recent resolutions to the GFO?Board of Directors and a new plan by Agricorp to track wildlife…