The vomitoxin problem in Ontario’s 2018 corn crop was more severe than most years and continues to cause problems for producers and buyers. However, the fungus-fostering conditions that caused the issue offer agronomic lessons for managing deoxynivalenol (DON) risk. According to Dale Cowan, senior agronomist and sales manager for AGRIS Co-operative and Wanstead Farmers Co-operative, […] Read more
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The DON to come – agronomic lessons from 2018
Farmers have new information to consider on hybrid selection, fungicide timing
How to tell the sustainability story
Professor says production efficiency increases are legitimate argument
Increases in farm production efficiency continue to reduce the environment impact per unit of production. However, such messages are often technical. How well do they resonate with consumers looking at agriculture as an environmental villain? Why it matters: Farmers are trying several ways of telling their story about environmental impact. The bottom line is that […] Read more
Jennifer Betzner joins Farmtario
Farmtario welcomes Jennifer Betzner to our team as a reporter. Betzner holds a BSc from the University of Guelph in Honours Agriculture. She joined Farmtario as a reporter after spending time as a sales agronomist for an agriculture retailer. Throughout her summers in university she worked as a crop scout for a local input supplier […] Read more
Lessons from developing a new Ontario crop
Tiger nuts can be made into dairy alternatives, but oils, proteins and starches can be extracted as well
It’s been a long time coming, but Andrea Orazi is thrilled that her frozen dessert is now available in more than 200 Eastern Canada Loblaw stores. The locally produced ice cream-style product is made from tiger nuts — a crop that isn’t actually a nut but could present a new market opportunity for enterprising Ontario […] Read more
Dairy genomic project closer to feed efficiency number
The Canadian portion of the project hopes to gain more funding to complete its work
The Efficient Dairy Genome Project (EDGP) is looking for another year of funding so it can complete its work and create breeding indices for feed efficiency for Canadian dairy farmers. The project recently held an international symposium in Guelph to check in with the co-ordinated research around the world being done on dairy feed efficiency. […] Read more
A plateful of advice offered in new national food guide
But that plate has less meat, more plant-based protein, and water is the ‘drink of choice’
“Don’t see a lot of meat or dairy!” That tweet from Simon Somogyi, Arrell Chair in the Business of Food at University of Guelph food expert summed up the reaction of many farm groups in the country following the unveiling of the revamped Canada’s Food Guide. As expected, Health Canada’s new edition of the guide […] Read more
Donation to boost soil health outreach
Donors aim to make sure best soil health information reaches farmers
The University of Guelph marked World Soil Day by announcing a $500,000 donation for soil health outreach in Ontario. The donation was made by Lillie Ann Morris, who has worked for more than four decades in agricultural advertising sales, Glacier FarmMedia, publisher of Farmtario and the agricultural division of information communications company Glacier Media Inc., […] Read more
Online sales can help drive specialty crop products
Camelina is being tested in Ontario to see if it works in crop rotations here
More often than not, the first instinct of consumers today is to head online when they’re looking to buy something. That’s less the case when it comes to the traditional agricultural market of inputs and supplies. And it certainly wasn’t on Jack Grushcow’s mind when his company, Linneaus Plant Sciences Inc., first discovered somewhat by […] Read more
Can it pay to stop farming unproductive land?
Taking underperforming areas of a field out of production can support farm profitability and conservation, say researchers
Can some farmers increase their profitability by not working underperforming parts of the field? Researchers at the University of Guelph think so. According to those researchers, combining conservation with crop production on a field-by-field level can better serve both the environment and producers’ bottom lines. Why it matters: Consistently underperforming areas of a farm hurt […] Read more
Milking new consumer trends
Tapping into consumers’ thirst for new ways to drink milk is spurring investment in processing and changing production practices on the farm
A national standard is being developed for grass-fed milk because of demand. Coca Cola committed to spending $85 million on a new plant in Peterborough for its specialty milk product and Saputo has now announced a competitor. It’s almost as though the Canadian milk market is having its Chobani moment. The American yogurt maker proposed […] Read more
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