Insights and Stories of John Greig

Take advantage of growth, guard against risk with new U.S. regime: Frum

Mar. 23, 2017 at 5:37 pm CDT

Political commentator David Frum says there’s good, bad and potentially ugly for Canadian farmers in the United States’ new and unpredictable Trump administration. Frum, a senior editor at The Atlantic magazine and, more recently, an owner of Ontario farmland, told the Grain Farmers of Ontario March Classic in London recently […]

Ontario cereals lab filling nationwide demand

Mar. 23, 2017 at 5:19 pm CDT

By John Greig

Technology could open up hay export markets for Ontario

Mar. 21, 2017 at 1:26 pm CDT

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Lake Erie plan’s farming recommendations released

Mar. 21, 2017 at 12:33 pm CDT

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Ontario names trustee to break tomato impasse

Mar. 3, 2017 at 2:08 pm CST

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The brother and sister advantage of Misty Glen Holsteins

Mar. 3, 2017 at 10:51 am CST

At some level, every brother-sister story is unique, and that’s certainly true of Misty Glen Farms near Belmont, Ont., where Suzanne and Tom Pettit milk about 50 cows with a robot in an efficient freestall barn built in 2012. They’ve been making most of the cow-related decisions on the farm […]

By John Greig

Dairy sector still working toward ingredients strategy

Feb. 15, 2017 at 3:12 pm CST

The Canadian dairy industry has missed a self-imposed deadline for the Feb. 1 implementation of a national ingredients strategy — but work continues toward that implementation. The strategy is meant to create a lower-priced class of milk, Class 7, to encourage the use of skim milk powder in further-processed ingredients. […]

By John Greig

Phosphorus program aims to reduce Lake Erie nutrients

Feb. 1, 2017 at 5:41 pm CST

Chatham, Ont. — Henry Denotter’s farms near Kingsville, Ont. are close to the Wigle Creek, which flows into Lake Erie and takes with it any residues it pulls from nature and farmers’ fields. The Wigle Creek subwatershed, west of Leamington, has turned into ground zero in long-term research on how […]

By John Greig

Corn/soy price ratio favours soybean acres, analyst says

Feb. 1, 2017 at 4:59 pm CST

Chatham, Ont. — Most underpinnings for higher corn, soybean and wheat prices appear to have fallen away — leaving biodiesel the only area that could drive higher prices. A growth mandate for U.S. ethanol production ends in 2017, and oil prices continue to stagnate well below the highs of a […]

By John Greig

Greig: A year of farm policy decisions ahead for Ontario

Jan. 16, 2017 at 8:34 pm CST

Ontario’s agriculture minister stands by his decision to halt a process that was expected to open up how processing tomatoes are priced in the province. Jeff Leal’s decision, announced in August, resulted in a Dec. 21 threat from Ontario’s largest tomato processors to significantly cut back their tomato purchases from […]

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