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Ontario farmers ready for Roundup Ready 2 Xtend soy

By GFM Network News August 4, 2016

CNS Canada — Soybean producers in Ontario are eager to start planting next season with new ammunition against Canada fleabane. Monsanto’s Roundup Ready 2 Xtend soybeans, genetically modified with a tolerance to dicamba and glyphosate herbicides, were recently approved for import by the European Union. Monsanto planned to introduce Xtend soybeans in Canada for the […] Read more

Crops, Weather

Ontario soybeans, corn suffer under ‘heat dome’

By GFM Network News July 28, 2016

Commodity News Service Canada – While Saskatchewan and Manitoba farmers wish the rain would go away, some Ontario farmers are wishing it would pour. “We’ll trade some nice, hot, dry, sunny weather for your water and rain,” said Jeff Barlow, a director with Grain Farmers of Ontario who farms in the southern part of the province. […] Read more

A wheat crop in progress on May 24, 2016 north of London, Ont. (Ralph Pearce photo)

Cereals, Crops

Wheat crops excel in Ontario

By GFM Network News June 9, 2016

CNS Canada — Ontario wheat producers are having a great start to the season, with healthy crops doubling in acreage from last year, according to a provincial cereals specialist. “Winter wheat crop this year is looking excellent,” said Joanna Follings, who works for the Ontario ministry of agriculture in Guelph. “We have some disease pressures […] Read more

Stripe rust can cause significant yield losses for wheat growers. (Yue Jin photo courtesy ARS/USDA)

Crops, Weather, Winter Wheat

Pearce: Stripe rust in winter wheat is Ontario’s biggest threat

By Ralph Pearce, GFM Network News May 29, 2016

Normally, stripe rust in winter wheat isn’t a huge problem for growers in Eastern Canada, and particularly in Ontario — at least, not at this stage of the growing season — but the 2016 growing season isn’t shaping up to be “normal” either. For now, the immediate challenge before growers is to get out and […] Read more

Dairy Cattle, Livestock

Gay Lea buys Ontario artisanal cheesemaker

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News May 27, 2016

Another storied eastern Ontario artisanal cheesemaker is set to go co-op. Gay Lea Foods, billed as Ontario’s biggest and Canada’s second-biggest dairy co-operative, announced a deal Wednesday to buy Black River Cheese Co. effective June 1 for an undisclosed sum. Based in Prince Edward County at Milford, about 45 km southeast of Belleville, Black River […] Read more

A close-up of emerging corn seedlings north of London, Ont. on May 24, 2016. (Ralph Pearce photo)

Crops, Weather

Pearce: Ontario crop conditions a tale of two scenarios

By Ralph Pearce, GFM Network News May 24, 2016

When it comes to getting a handle on current crop conditions in Ontario, it really depends on who you ask. Conditions and progress in the southern portion of the province vary — some considerably — compared to those in eastern Ontario, particularly where it comes to planting corn and soybeans. If there’s one common theme […] Read more

Western corn rootworm larvae. (Scott Bauer photo courtesy ARS/USDA)

Ontario court rejects grower appeal on neonic rules

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News April 22, 2016

The group representing Ontario’s corn and soybean growers, seeking a stay on the province’s new restrictions for use of neonicotinoid seed treatments, won’t get its wish from the provincial Court of Appeal. The appeal court on Wednesday dismissed a March 9 application from Grain Farmers of Ontario (GFO) seeking an interpretation of the province’s new […] Read more

Corn, Crops, Soybeans

Court to hear growers’ appeal of Ontario neonic rules

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News January 13, 2016

Ontario’s soybean and corn growers have been granted an appeal hearing in their bid to delay the province’s new limits on neonicotinoid seed treatments. Grain Farmers of Ontario (GFO), the body for the province’s corn, soy, wheat, barley and oat growers, said Tuesday the Ontario Court of Appeal has agreed to hear its case on March […] Read more

TBARS director Dr. Tarlok Singh Sahota shows off a test plot of black barley in this 2014 file photo.

Crops, Weather

Thunder Bay ag research station gets stay

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News January 4, 2016

More time has been bought for a northern Ontario agricultural research station on the brink of closing to come up with a new operating plan. The Ontario government on Monday announced $350,000 in bridge funding for the not-for-profit Thunder Bay Agricultural Research Association, operator of the Thunder Bay Agricultural Research Station (TBARS), to “develop a […] Read more

Cereals, Crops

Province backs new Hamilton bulk flour mill

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News December 7, 2015

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

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Tag Archives Ontario

Ontario farmers ready for Roundup Ready 2 Xtend soy

Ontario soybeans, corn suffer under ‘heat dome’

Wheat crops excel in Ontario

Pearce: Stripe rust in winter wheat is Ontario’s biggest threat

Gay Lea buys Ontario artisanal cheesemaker

Pearce: Ontario crop conditions a tale of two scenarios

Ontario court rejects grower appeal on neonic rules

Court to hear growers’ appeal of Ontario neonic rules

Thunder Bay ag research station gets stay

Province backs new Hamilton bulk flour mill

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