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Ontario operations receive $7.4 million for clean agtech

The ACT program will help farmers adapt to a changing climate and boost their long-term competitiveness while cutting emissions, focused on three priority areas: green energy, precision agriculture and the bioeconomy.


Funding available for Ontario ag and hort societies affected by pandemic

The $1 million in funding will help the province’s agricultural and horticultural societies continue to operate and support their efforts to educate people about the value and significance of agriculture in the province.


Syngenta Canada donates $25,000 to CASA

The donation will support CASA’s programming, such as On-Farm Agricultural Worker Safety Training, educating and building youth awareness of farm safety, and Safety for Women in Ag.
 
 
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Bayer Laudis

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If you love your corn, you want new Laudis® corn herbicide. It offers excellent post-emergence weed control to help keep your fields clean right through to harvest. Laudis delivers fast-acting broadleaf weed control even on tough to control glyphosate-resistant weeds such as Canada fleabane, giant ragweed and waterhemp. A built-in safener provides exceptional crop safety on field corn and sweet corn, with favourable rotation intervals for soybeans, potatoes, spring wheat and winter wheat. Laudis is also an excellent tank mix partner with Roundup® brands.
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Tar spot here to stay in Ontario

Tar spot here to stay in Ontario

Tar spot is here to stay. In September of 2020, researchers confirmed the plant disease, which is caused by the fungus Phyllachora maydis, had reached Ontario. By winter, they’d found it in the lower five counties of southern Ontario. It was confirmed the disease could overwinter here when tar spot was found in southern Ontario in July 2021. And once established in a region, tar spot can hit corn growers hard. » Learn more...
 
Engineering biology centre

Engineering biology centre to speed Canadian agricultural research efforts

A state-of-the-art biomanufacturing facility that promises to deliver innovations in agricultural research and plant breeding will be hosted and managed by the University of Saskatchewan’s Global Institute for Food Security (GIFS). It promises to help accelerate breeding efforts with the university’s Crop Development Centre in order to get better varieties into farmers’ hands much more quickly. » Learn more...
 
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