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A big step for small grains
Cereals, Crops

A big step for small grains

New market opportunities will come with research and advocacy

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Reading Time: 5 minutes For several years now, there have been questions about adding crops to the Grain Farmers of Ontario (GFO). Beyond the charter commodities of corn, wheat and soybeans, for instance, there have been murmurs about bringing in edible beans. But early this past July, it was farmers who grow oats and barley who became the latest […] Read more
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Cereals, Crops

Province backs new Hamilton bulk flour mill

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Reading Time: 2 minutes With public funds in hand, Winnipeg agrifood firm Parrish and Heimbecker is set to build Ontario’s first new flour mill in three-quarters of a century, near the company’s grain terminal in Hamilton. The provincial government on Monday pledged a $5 million investment from the Food and Beverage Growth Fund arm of its $2.5 billion Jobs […] Read more
Tufted vetch was not an abundant weed species in 1988, but it was establishing more of a presence in the 2014 weed survey.
Crops

Pest Patrol: A survey of weeds in corn, soybeans and winter wheat across six southwestern Ontario counties

#PestPatrol with Mike Cowbrough, OMAFRA

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Reading Time: 2 minutes The last survey of weeds populating fields in Ontario was conducted in 1988. Therefore, I felt it was time to do another survey and compare the weed species populating corn, soybeans and winter wheat found in 1988 versus 2014 (see tables further down). In general, the abundant species identified in 1988 were also abundant in […] Read more
A flowering tansy ragwort plant during August.
Crops, Livestock

Pest Patrol: How do I control tansy ragwort in my pasture?

#PestPatrol with Mike Cowbrough, OMAFRA

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Reading Time: 2 minutes By Kate Ayers University of Guelph, Ontario Agriculture College Tansy ragwort is a noxious weed most often found in pastures and hayfields. It is a biennial or short-lived perennial that reproduces through seeds and roots. Tansy is poisonous to livestock and can cause liver damage. Symptoms that may occur after plant consumption include: weakness, high […] Read more
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We’re in an information-overload world, and that’s why this new generation wants the five-second text.” – Peter Johnson.
Crops

Are farmers suffering from too much information?

With today’s big data, it sure would help to have those provincial crop advisers back on the team

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Reading Time: 7 minutes While agriculture in Canada has been evolving in the past 10 to 15 years, there has also been a curious evolution in the quantity and the quality of information available to farmers. In the late 1990s, at least in Ontario, the governing Conservative Party began scaling back on what was referred to as “bricks and […] Read more
The dirt on soil tests
Crops

The dirt on soil tests

With soil nutrient levels dropping, how do you need to change your soil-testing program and fertility rates?

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Reading Time: 4 minutes Fewer farmers are sampling their soils. In Ontario, the numbers say fewer than 30 per cent of farmers test every three years, even though this trend is leading to a data gap at a time when everything else seems to be changing too, such as the rapid climb in yield potentials, and elite corn hybrids […] Read more
Tile drainage is an effective tool at managing water quality and subsequently improving management of soil health and related issues.
Crops, Production

Where water leaves the farm

Improve your productivity by starting where water leaves your farm, and then work backwards

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Reading Time: 4 minutes In the chase for higher yields and improved production, farmers have tapped into everything from precision ag systems to a return to cover crops. Now comes a concept that might not only boost yields and enhance soil health, it might also alleviate some of the pressure on farmers that starts with surface run-off heading into […] Read more
The crop production wheel
Crops

The crop production wheel

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Two years ago in the September edition of Country Guide, we ran a sidebar about a “complete systems” approach to production agriculture, including the depiction of a “production wheel.” The image comes from Don Lobb, an advocate for improving soil health and tile drainage. He created the guideline in a circular or wheel configuration, and […] Read more
Woman in supermarket shopping groceries
Crops

Win the right battle – for the sake of food

Not only is the food we eat bad for us, but the practices that produced it are unsound too. Or so goes the message that too many consumers get too often from our mainstream media

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Reading Time: 5 minutes The science is clear. “If you look at Western Canada and you look at a four-year crop rotation that starts anchored by a pulse crop at the front end, I believe that’s one of the most sustainable farming systems in the world,” says John Oliver, president of Maple Leaf Bio-Concepts. Many of the loudest, harshest […] Read more

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