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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.

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

By Ralph Pearce November 2, 2015

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

Livestock

Guelph animal science department rebrands

By Country Guide Staff September 23, 2015

Reading Time: < 1 minute The Ontario Agricultural College’s department of animal and poultry science has hatched a new name meant to better take in the scope of its work. The new name, the Department of Animal Biosciences, “helps describe the department’s evolution from a livestock husbandry department in the 1870s to the highly dynamic and integrated department it is […] Read more

Crops

The crop production wheel

By Ralph Pearce September 21, 2015

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

Livestock

Ont. group to weigh school models for Kemptville

By Country Guide Staff July 18, 2015

Reading Time: 2 minutes The Ontario government has set up its working group to consider options for the Ontario Agricultural College’s Kemptville campus beyond this year. The University of Guelph, which operates OAC, announced in spring 2014 it would wind down operations at its Kemptville and Alfred satellite campuses and consolidate its ag education and research operations at its […] Read more

Crops

Making the case in the neonic debate

Can agriculture afford to lose to the non-science of neonic opponents? The costs would be even higher than you probably think

By Ralph Pearce April 29, 2015

Reading Time: 13 minutes Here in early 2015, it’s becoming a recognized pattern in agriculture: another day, another article, another proclamation and another call for action, all revolving around farmers’ use of neonicotinoid seed treatments and the alleged damage this does to bees and bee colonies. To say there is an abundance of information on this topic is one […] Read more

Opinion

Editor’s Desk: Get your mind around it

By Tom Button March 30, 2015

Reading Time: 2 minutes Of all the sciences, which is the most important for your farm? Is it biology, or soil science, or chemistry, or electronics? My vote is for none of those. My vote is for psychology. I hope that surprises you, because it sure surprised me. I had just finished talking to young wannabe farmers at Ridgetown […] Read more

Corn, Crops

New research shows how your crop gets a sneak peek at weeds

It turns out your crop sees and reacts to weeds before the crop even emerges

By Ralph Pearce March 25, 2015

Reading Time: 6 minutes Weed science is constantly evolving and adapting as it learns more about the basic interactions of crops and weeds in the field. Now, get ready for another evolutionary rethink. Early in 2014, Dr. Clarence Swanton, a professor and researcher with the department of plant agriculture at the University of Guelph, brought to light new research […] Read more

Crops, Soybeans

Seed inoculation gains ground

Soybean Guide: OMAFRA’s Horst Bohner now recommends always inoculating. “There are some real benefits.”

By Ralph Pearce March 16, 2015

Reading Time: 6 minutes In the world of agriculture, there are very few constants. Most practices and standards last only until new research shifts our thought processes, or until a new challenge or a new opportunity changes the landscape. There are plenty of recent examples. Within the past decade, the hard-and-fast rule of always planting corn first has changed; […] Read more

Crops, Soybeans

Digging into food-grade soybeans

Soybean Guide: This four-year study aims to exploit the best traits and qualities in IP soys

By Ralph Pearce March 9, 2015

Reading Time: 6 minutes Agriculture often has to take a look back in order to see what’s ahead. Farmers do it with their cropping plans and seed orders. Retailers and suppliers do it too, using the previous year’s experience to improve in the year ahead. Now the food-grade soybean sector is embracing the same strategy. Thanks in part to […] Read more

General

Francophone ag education in E. Ont. under new management

By Country Guide Staff March 5, 2015

Reading Time: 2 minutes An established francophone college has been named to co-ordinate delivery of French-language agricultural education programs in eastern Ontario. The province on Thursday announced Ottawa-based Collège La Cité will take on that role — and take the lead in delivering several such programs this fall at Campus d’Alfred (UGCA), which, for now, is a francophone campus […] Read more

Daily Network News

Trump tells farmers that tractor companies should lower prices

Get farmers in on federal water security strategy planning, CFA says

U.S. finalizes biofuel blending quotas for 2026-27, cuts RINS for foreign feedstocks

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