GFO Newsletter for April 2012
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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…
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Early nitrogen
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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…
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Weed control tips
FALL MANAGEMENT
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Many farmers have witnessed the value of applying herbicides in the fall for the management of winter annual and biennial/perennial weeds (Figure 1). Often, they will see both a reduction in density and a delay…
From the CEO’s desk – October 2025
On September 9, Grain Farmers of Ontario celebrated a successful 2024–2025 fiscal year at our annual general meeting in Woodstock
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With a 15-year track record of delivering results for Ontario’s 28,000 grain farmers—through government relations, market development, research, member outreach, agronomy extension, and building public trust—it’s important to take a moment to reflect on the…