Are Canada fleabane or waterhemp consistent or growing problems on your farm? If so, it might be time to change the approach to chemical controls, according to field crop and […] Read more
Managing Ontario’s devious weed duo
Strategies offered on how to deal with herbicide-resistant fleabane and waterhemp
How to keep soybeans weed-free
Design weed control plans to help the crop out-compete problem weeds
Without weed control, Ontario soybean growers would lose an estimated $617 million. That’s the number estimated by Peter Sikkema, professor and field crop weed management expert at the University of […] Read more
How to grow better wheat
Participants in 2022 YEN competition share their strategies
There’s more than one way to grow high-yielding wheat, but focusing on soil health and measuring the impact of different practices are places to start. Those are two things that […] Read more
Quinlan Farms wins Essex conservation award
Award given for investments in soil and water health, production diversity
The Essex Soil and Crop Improvement Association (ESCIA) and Essex Region Conservation Authority (ERCA) recently bestowed the 2022 Conservation Farm of the Year Award to Quinlan Farms, a mixed crop, […] Read more
Farmer meetings aim to reduce isolation and stress
SHED Talk project aims to generate grassroots support networks
Goderich-based non-profit Gateway Rural Health has launched a farmer meeting series to build grassroots mental health support networks in rural Ontario. The Sustaining Healthy Farms Through Empowerment and Dedication, or […] Read more
‘Black Swan’ events affecting Ontario fertilizers, says report
Report outlines short and long-term solutions, and the need to remove fertilizer tariff
A new report commissioned by Grain Farmers of Ontario (GFO) details long and short-term measures which can stabilize and insulate farmers in eastern Canada from fertilizer market turbulence. Many recommendations […] Read more
Full-province representation in latest wheat yield competition
2022 YEN competition sees more participants, which means more modelling data for predicting potential wheat yields next year
Ontario wheat growers hit yields of close to 150 bushels per acre in the second year of the Great Lakes Yield Enhancement Network (YEN). The YEN included 18 Ontario winter […] Read more
Public trust in Canada’s food system comes off pandemic high
Cost of living and other factors drive a return to pre-2020 consumer perceptions
After a pandemic-induced boost, the latest public trust report from the Canadian Centre for Food Integrity indicates Canadians’ faith in the food system has fallen back to general historical trends. […] Read more
Western Fair District develops food and ag-product hub
Organization matches District’s Accelerator and Incubator programs to production space for developing companies
There’s a lot of construction at the Western Fair District, all in efforts to spur more made-in-Ontario innovation in food and agricultural products. The Grove (formerly known as The Progress […] Read more
Fertilizer: The long view
For Ontario, spring fertilizer to stay expensive. Internationally, the global nitrogen supply tightens
Supply is tight but flowing and the product is costly but available. Given current domestic and international realities, the same is likely to be said about fertilizer in spring 2023. […] Read more
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