Farming for the future
FROM THE CEO'S DESK
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LIKE MANY OF you, I attended Canada’s Outdoor Farm Show (COFS) in September and took some time to wander around the show and check out the latest in farm machinery, tools, and gadgets. The sheer…
Topic: research
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Farm women and mental health
RESEARCH FOCUSES ON GENDER AND CLIMATE CHANGE
- MENTAL HEALTH — AND its impact on farmers and the agricultural community — has become a more talked about subject in recent years, thanks, in part, to research conducted at the Ontario Veterinary College (OVC)… -
Planting date matters
AGRONOMIC INFORMATION FROM ONTARIO'S CROP SPECIALISTS
- THE PLANTING DATE map used by Ontario growers was developed by research conducted in the 1990s (Figure 1). This research found that every day planting is delayed beyond the optimum planting date for a region,… -
Rural Pride
FOSTERING A WELCOMING AND INCLUSIVE COMMUNITY
- IN LATE APRIL, the municipal council for the Township of Norwich passed a new bylaw that restricts the types of flags that can be flown on township property and lampposts. The original version included language… -
4R grain corn
BENEFITS OF ADVANCED 4R NITROGEN MANAGEMENT
- 4R FERTILIZER MANAGEMENT (Right Source, Right Rate, Right Time and Right Place) is a well-known, well-respected and widely-implemented program in Ontario and across Canada. It is also an evolving program, with new studies continually being… -
Gifting a legacy
INVESTING IN RIDGETOWN CAMPUS
- TAR SPOT, A fungal disease found in corn, was first discovered in the U.S. in 2015. Today, it has spread across the U.S. and in 20 Ontario counties west of Toronto. In less than a… -
Taking the fight to Fusarium
ONGOING RESEARCH TO MITIGATE ITS IMPACT
- UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH researchers are finding and validating new chemical and biological weapons in the battle against Fusarium, a fungal disease that has devastating effects on wheat and corn crops. CHEMICALS “Adepidyn is a relatively… -
New markets for DON-infested corn
INNOVATIVE RESEARCH UNDERWAY
- ONTARIO FARMERS PRODUCE over eight million metric tonnes of corn every year, but as growers know, some of it unavoidably becomes infested with vomitoxin, also known as deoxynivalenol or DON. DON is a mycotoxin produced… -
Sandhill cranes
ONTARIO FARMS HIT HARD WITH CROP DAMAGE
- WILDLIFE DAMAGE COSTS crop farmers an estimated $41 million each year. In some parts of Ontario, the number one culprit is the sandhill crane — and the problem continues to grow. As the population and… -
The cover crop difference
RESEARCHING THE BENEFITS
- WE KNOW THE benefits of planting cover crops, but what exactly are those benefits and how are they measured? Results of a five-year Ontario-based cover crop research project are rolling in and are presenting some definitive information…