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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…
The Big Picture: The future of the global food landscape

March 2012 - UNIFIED AND BALANCED NATIONAL FOOD STRATEGY NEEDED with challenges like climate change, a growing population, food safety concerns and resource availability it may seem like an uncertain time to be in the food industry. However,…
Future of Grain

March 2012 - HIGHLIGHTING THE LATEST TECHNOLOGY IN GRAIN PRODUCTION PRO Seeds merger PRO Seeds Marketing, Hendrick Seeds, Hendrick AgriFoods and Agworks recently announced that they have merged and formed Sevita International. The new company will operate as Sevita…
Research roundup

March 2012 - FIND OUT WHAT’S NEW IN THE WORLD OF RESEARCH Sustainable car parts from soy Matt McIntosh Soybean oil could be a green alternative to synthetic based auto parts. University of Guelph plant scientists Drs. Manju…
Making the case for more fencerows

March 2012 - HOW TO MAXIMIZE NATURAL GREENWAYS FOR WILDLIFE equipment keeps getting larger and when crop prices are good, there’s more incentive for farmers to clear overgrown pastures and cut down fencerows. Although this makes sense from…
Cropside: Everything but the kitchen sink

AGRONOMIC INFORMATION FROM ONTARIO'S CROP SPECIALISTS

March 2012 - With Dan Docking DOES THROWING EVERYTHING YOU HAVE AT SOYBEANS WORK? ARE YOU LOOKING to incorporate some winning strategies into your soybean production system? With high commodity prices does it make sense to simply buy…