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Investment Funds Amplify Grain Market Moves
Outside investment in the agricultural commodity markets could heavily influence crop prices in 2011. Grain trader Stephen Kell of Parish and Heimbecker told farmers attending the recent Southwest Ag...
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Agriculture’s Time To Shine
The president of the University of Guelph says it’s time for agriculture to take centre stage to face the significant problems of a changing world. Dr. Alastair Summerlee was the keynote speaker at the...
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Breaking Ontario Wheat Yield Barriers
The interaction of fungicides and increased nitrogen rates could be the key to pushing Ontario’s average wheat yields to 100 bushels per acre. Researchers have been studying the relationship of the two...
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Family Harmony vs. Family Conflicts
Back by popular demand, Dr. Ron Hanson, an agri-business professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, brought his honest and entertaining approach for dealing with family farm succession matters to...
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Showing Up Against The Conflict Industry
A logger from Montana has a word of advice to help Ontario livestock farmers deal with those who are opposed to their type of business. Bruce Vincent believes that “activism” should appear on a line in...
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Loblaw Partners With Cattle Feeders To Offer Ontario Beef
Loblaw Companies and the Ontario Cattle Feeders’ Association have teamed up to boost sales of Ontario Corn Fed Beef across the province. Several Loblaw executives and members of the OCFA were on hand...
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Reducing Lodging Problems In Ontario Wheat
In the quest to help boost Ontario wheat yields, provincial cereal crops specialist Peter Johnson is turning his attention to lodging problems in the crop. At the Southwest Crop Diagnostic Days in...
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On The Lookout For A New Crop Pest
Farmers could soon be facing a new insect threat in Ontario. Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs entomologist Hannah Fraser says crop specialists are keeping close tabs on an insect called...
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Farm Safety A Hot Topic At Ridgetown
About 120 young people turned out for the Annual Farm Safety Day Camp for Kids, held July 20 at the University of Guelph’s Ridgetown Campus. The event, hosted by the Chatham-Kent Farm Safety...
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Farming Stories in FACES
Here are some excerpts from two farm-related stories featured in the recent 2012 FACES of Chatham-Kent, a special section of the Chatham Daily News, dedicated to the success stories of people, business...
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Fine-Tuning Nitrogen Applications
Y-Drop system places nitrogen close to the roots of the corn crop An Ontario crop business is the first in Canada to adopt a unique system for late-season applications of nitrogen for corn and...
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The Best of Both Worlds: Tillage and Soil Conservation
Corn growing after being planted into 30 per cent soybean residue (Source: OMAFRA) A shift in the landscape is occurring as farmers are increasing tillage in the wake of high commodity prices. With the...
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Year-round Greenhouse Tomato Production
Innovative lighting helps Kingsville greenhouse produce tomatoes year-round In an effort to keep pace with fierce competition from producers in sunnier, southern climates, an innovative greenhouse...
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Concerns about crop quality and yield linger after heavy storms
A little more rain in Chatham-Kent overnight (July 27) to go along with the deluge some farms have received this growing season. In a story I wrote a couple of weeks ago for the Chatham Voice, I...
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Why you lost yield
Morris Sagriff When to start the planter, how to operate it properly, and corn stalk rot top the list of concerns for DuPont Pioneer senior agronomist Morris Sagriff as harvest approaches. At the...
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UAV takes scouting to a higher level
Story first published in November 2013 edition of Ontario Grain Farmer By Blair Andrews Thompsons is taking precision agriculture to new heights with an aerial scouting drone that was launched this...
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Finding precision ag paybacks for corn
Story published in November, 2013 Top Crop Manager East By Blair Andrews The growth of precision agriculture with its array of new electronic devices has given farmers some powerful tools to get more...
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Brother act wins farm award
First published in The Chatham Voice, December 2013 By Blair Andrews Bill and Earl Elgie have teamed up to earn the Outstanding Farmer of the Year Award from the Kent Soil and Crop Improvement...
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Improving the odds of double-crop soybeans
Soybeans are planted into wheat stubble immediately after harvest.Photo submitted by Horst Bohner, OMAF Story published in December 2013 Top Crop Manager East By Blair Andrews An empty field after...
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50 Years of Ontario’s Heat Unit System
With the weather (finally) warming up, the Ottawa Citizen has published a timely story on the Crop Heat Unit system that was developed in Ontario 50 years ago by Dr.Murray Brown. It’s good to see...
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