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GLOBAL UNCERTAINTY WILL IMPACT 2023 CORN MARKETS

December 2022 - IT HAS BEEN a tumultuous year for corn markets around the world and looking into 2023, it looks like more of the same. The Russian invasion of Ukraine in February of 2022 changed the paradigm…
Tar spot in Ontario

HERE TO STAY

August 2022 - TWO STRAINS OF tar spot — Mexican and Caribbean — are here to stay in Ontario, and growers need to take active steps to achieve good control of this corn disease this summer and in…
Make your voice heard

FROM THE CEO'S DESK

April 2022 - YOU ARE LIKELY seeing lots of signs of spring — the days are getting longer, daffodils are blooming, trees are budding, and tractors are starting to make their way to the field for the 2022…
Growing demand for hemp

POTENTIAL NEW MARKET FOR GRAIN FARMERS

October 2021 - IT IS THE end of July, and Reuben Stone is standing in one of his hemp fields in eastern Ontario, near the village of Cobden. Stone grew his first hemp crop in 2009 and has…
Social responsibility

NCGA NEW SUSTAINABILITY GOALS

August 2021 - AMERICAN CORN FARMERS have announced timely sustainability goals for the sector, hoping to appeal to consumers’ environmental interests and farmers’ desire for less government intervention and regulation. The goals, outlined by the National Corn Growers…
Farmland values

STRONG INCREASES ACROSS CANADA

June 2021 - ALTHOUGH MANY ASPECTS of our lives and the national economy were negatively affected by the COVID-19 pandemic in 2021, the value of Canadian farmland — and real estate in general across the country — was…