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Cropside: Bugs in bins

AGRONOMIC INFORMATION FROM ONTARIO'S CROP SPECIALISTS

September 2011 - QUALITY MANAGEMENT DOESN’T STOP AT HARVEST with wheat already in the bin and corn and soybeans coming in soon, managing grain in bins to maintain quality should be top of mind for farmers. Here are…
The Big Picture: Farmers Feed Cities – making the connection

September 2011 - FRESH FROM THE FIELD DINNER A HUGE SUCCESS we need food to live. We grow it, we cook it, we eat it, we enjoy it, and we entertain with it. The local food movement has…
Future of Grain

September 2011 - HIGHLIGHTING THE LATEST TECHNOLOGY IN GRAIN PRODUCTION AND UTILIZATION New seed applied fungicide available Researchers at Syngenta say the recently developed seed treatment known as Sedaxane appears to be a particularly effective tool against the…
Research Roundup

September 2011 - — New advances in winter wheat breeding Samantha Beattie The wait for the perfect wheat has been substantially shortened. Dr. Duane Falk from the University of Guelph has developed a winter wheat type that does…
In the news

September 2011 - NEWS BITES THAT MATTER Harvest survey well underway Grain Farmers of Ontario’s annual wheat harvest survey is up and running and so far, the results seem to indicate good general test weights. This survey provides…
Developing markets at home and abroad

September 2011 - as we begin the month of September it makes me think of new beginnings and opportunity as the school year starts for the kids and farmers begin harvest and planning for the upcoming crop year.…
DON developments

September 2011 - NEW GRADING TECHNOLOGY AND NEW GENETICS BEING DEVELOPED IN ONTARIO visual inspection of corn and wheat for Fusarium infection at the point of grain delivery is not accurate for determining actual levels of DON, so…
Maintaining quality after harvest

September 2011 - KEEP TREATED SEED FROM CONTAMINATING THIS YEAR’S HARVEST harvest on the farm is undoubtedly a busy time. Long hours in the combine and anxious hours spent analyzing weather and market forecasts can make for an…
Getting to the bottom of basis

September 2011 - MARKETING LEADERS EXPLORE WHY ONTARIO’S BASIS IS DIFFERENT FROM THE BASIS IN THE NEARBY US basis is a hot topic throughout the entire growing season but discussions usually peak right around harvest when there is…
Better than tea leaves

September 2011 - A SNAPSHOT OF WORLD AGRICULTURE’S FUTURE if you ever wished you could read tea leaves to know where fertilizer demand is headed, how long-term soybean prices will trend or how much corn China could be…