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Biological inputs

THEIR POTENTIAL ROLE IN SOIL HEALTH MANAGEMENT

July 2019 - CAN BIOLOGICAL INPUTS help increase farm profitability and sustainability? According to academic and ministry experts, the answer is – maybe. More specifically, they say new microbial inputs might play a positive role if used in…
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Winter wheat in challenging years

THINGS TO CONSIDER

July 2019 - THE 2018-2019 winter wheat growing season has not been easy. More challenging conditions during both fall planting and the spring mean producers need to be more mindful of additional production issues. During the Southwest Crop…
Brazil’s case for sustainability

June 2019 - GLOBALLY, YOU CAN’T talk about soybeans and corn without talking about Brazil. Soybean exports from this vibrant South American country of 210 million people were virtually nothing 40 years ago. But now it’s the world’s…
Gene editing

CANADIAN BARRIERS AND PERCEPTIONS

June 2019 - GENE-EDITING TECHNOLOGY has the potential to revolutionize crop and animal development globally. For Canadian researchers, however, the federal government’s ambiguous and slow-moving regulatory system is preventing new agricultural products from reaching farmers and consumers alike.…
Assessing success

SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE INITIATIVE

June 2019 - IN MARCH, I had the opportunity to travel to Warsaw, Poland to attend the Sustainable Agriculture Initiative (SAI) Platform Community of Practice meeting. The SAI Platform is a major food and drink industry initiative which…
GrainTALK for June/July 2019

GET THE LATEST NEWS FROM GRAIN FARMERS OF ONTARIO

June 2019 - FROM THE CHAIR A Q&A with Grain Farmers of Ontario chair, Markus Haerle. In continuation of last issue’s Ask The Chair, we focus on Trade, a federal election ask. Trade issues continue to impact our farm…
Growing momentum

LESSONS FROM THE 2019 MARCH CLASSIC

June 2019 - THE 2019 MARCH CLASSIC was attended by a record number of Grain Farmers of Ontario farmer-members and grain industry representatives. More than 900 people filled the London Convention Centre for a full day of inspiring…
Cropside: Starter fertilizer

AGRONOMIC INFORMATION FROM ONTARIO'S CROP SPECIALISTS

June 2019 - IT’S A COMMON question from strip tillers: is there still response to starter fertilizer on the corn planter after delivering good fertility in the strip with the strip tiller? For simplicity, it would be ideal…
New leadership

GRAIN GROWERS OF CANADA

June 2019 - IT’S BEEN A long time since she worked at Calgary’s River Café, but Erin Gowriluk thinks that her background there helps her as the new executive director of the Grain Growers of Canada (GGC). “Now…
Conservation agriculture

A PROFILE OF A MOROCCAN FARMER

June 2019 - AZIZ ZINE EL ABIDINE knows he’s lucky. He can read, he’s highly educated and he farms 80 times more land than the average Moroccan farmer. The decisions he makes on his nearly 2,000 acre farm are…