Recent Posts

• Our Farm’s Experience with Variable-Rate N Fertilization of Corn March 15, 2024
• Serious flaws in new Ontario Report on Climate Change and Ontario Agriculture and Food October 26, 2023
• The Weakest of the Four Rs: Nitrogen Application Rates for Corn March 22, 2023
• Another Look at Corn/Soybean-Based Crop Rotations and Soil Organic Matter September 25, 2022
• My Comments on: “Reducing Emissions Arising from the Application of Fertilizer in Canada’s Agriculture Sector” August 30, 2022
• Trying to Make Sense of Canada’s Greenhouse Gas Reduction Plans for Agriculture April 11, 2022
• 2022 Update: What are the Realistic Opportunities for Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Canadian Agriculture? February 28, 2022
• A Brief History of Corn in France: How the Church Suppressed Corn Expansion for More than 250 Years February 4, 2022
• Do Canadians Really Lose or Waste 58% of Food and Food Ingredients? A Critical Look at the Calculations Says No October 17, 2021
• A History of the Ontario Corn Producers’ Association, 1982 – 2009 September 12, 2021
• My Comments on 2021 Report of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Working Group I August 22, 2021
• The Many Unsuccessful Attempts to form an Ontario Grain Corn Marketing Board June 18, 2021
• What are the Realistic Opportunities for Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Canadian Agriculture? April 29, 2021
• An overview of the Farmers for Climate Solution: Who they are and what’s included in their request for $300 million from Ottawa March 8, 2021
• Do Cover Crops Increase Soil Organic Carbon Content? What do the Meta-Reviews Say? February 17, 2021
• Update on Fuel Ethanol: Its Value in Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Canada January 19, 2021
• Overview of New Canadian Clean Fuel Regulations – Implications for Biofuel and Farmers December 30, 2020
• What Percentage of Canadian Net Greenhouse Gas Emissions are caused by Agriculture? It all depends on How They Are Calculated? December 4, 2020
• Improved Method for Calculating Methane Effects on Global Warming Means Huge Differences in Canadian and Canadian Agricultural GHG Emissions and Trends September 13, 2020
• How Well are Canada and Canadian Agriculture Doing in Reducing Net GHG Emissions – In Comparison with International Commitments and Other Countries? August 9, 2020
• A Brief Guide to Mennonites and Amish – especially Old Order – in Ontario July 1, 2020
• How Does the World Feed 10 Billion People by 2050 While Reducing Agricultural GHG Emissions by Two-Thirds? A Critique of World Resource Institute Recommendations April 15, 2020
• The Ontario Corn Committee – Still Advancing Hybrid Corn after 83 Years April 1, 2020
• The Long-Forgotten Ontario Corn Growers’ Association, 1908-1942 March 7, 2020
• The Pioneers of Hybrid Corn in Canada February 15, 2020
• Why Do We Grow Yellow Dent Corn? February 3, 2020
• A Look at UK and Canadian Stats on Agricultural Greenhouse Gas Emissions February 1, 2020
• How Early Farmers Grew Corn – Even as Wheat Dominated 19th Century Agriculture January 19, 2020
• How Corn Began January 12, 2020
• A Brief History of the Hybrid Corn Industry October 25, 2019
• How and When Corn Came to Canada, and How it was Grown May 23, 2019
• A ‘ Kentucky Derby Weekend’ Tribute to the Remarkable Dr. Bill Duncan May 2, 2019
• My Introduction to Dr. Christine Jones March 10, 2019
• Can We Improve the Soil Sustainability of a Corn-Soybean Crop Rotation? February 22, 2019
• Why Lynas’ Book, Seeds of Science, Made Me Angry! Fortunately, the Greenpeace Strategy Fizzled in Canada. Here’s Why December 27, 2018
• Comments on: “When Too Much Isn’t Enough: Does Current Food Production Meet Global Nutritional Needs?” November 18, 2018
• Comments on: Association of Frequency of Organic Food Consumption with Cancer Risk October 26, 2018
• The Kevin Folta I Know – And What About That Industry Money? September 2, 2018
• Critique of: Impacts of soil carbon sequestration on life cycle greenhouse gas emissions in Midwestern USA beef finishing systems, (2018) by Dr. Paige L. Stanley et al, Michigan State University July 22, 2018
• What’s Your View on Mandatory Labelling of GM Foods? It depends so much on whether you have ‘Skin In The Game’ July 15, 2018
• Ontario Bee Association lobbies for far greater limits on pesticide seed treatments based on flawed environment ministry data April 17, 2018
• In Praise of Pesticides: Let’s stop assuming that complete pesticide elimination is a laudable and realistic goal – for it is neither March 13, 2018
• York-Laval University Paper on Neonics and Bees Marred by Inconsistencies, Data Deficiencies, Dubious Bee Management and Weak Statistics July 18, 2017
• Comments on “Status and Trends of Pollinator Health in Ontario” (A review by Pindar et al., March 2017, University of Guelph) April 17, 2017
• Turning the Farming Clock Back in Time Means More Expensive Food March 7, 2017
• How Tides Canada uses its Charitable Status to Attack Agricultural Biotechnology January 3, 2017
• The Pluses and Minuses – What Genetically Engineered (GE) Crops Mean on Our Farm December 10, 2016
• Report by the Environmental Commissioner of Ontario on Soil Health Badly Weakened by Inaccuracies, Omissions, Superficiality and another Agenda November 22, 2016
• How to Communicate with the Public About GMOs and Related Farm Technologies October 23, 2016
• New Insights on Organic and Non-Organic Crops: USDA Data Show Organics Average 67% of Yield of Non-organics September 6, 2016
• What should I as a Farmer do about Milkweeds, Monarchs and GE crops? What does Science say? August 16, 2016
• Why a Century-long Trend for Lower Relative Food Costs may be About to End January 10, 2016
• Agricultural Anti-GMO Activism is Probably Not About the Technology At All December 29, 2015
• “A Genetically Modified Organic Wheat? It Already Exists” December 12, 2015
• Facing the Lesser-known Challenge: An Over-Abundance of Agricultural Productivity November 22, 2015
• What We Have Learned from the Neonic Fiasco in Ontario August 7, 2015
• What Killed Ontario Bees Last Winter? January 2, 2015
• Critique of “A Proposal for Enhancing Pollinator Health and Reducing A Proposal for Enhancing Pollinator Health and Reducing the Use of Neonicotinoid Pesticides in Ontario” – Discussion Paper by the Government of Ontario December 14, 2014
• Greater and More-Visible Leadership on Sustainable Agriculture Needed from Farm Organizations November 14, 2014
• What Corn-Canola Comparisons Tell us about Neonics and Bees – Plenty Actually May 1, 2014
• Roots – The Secret to Record Corn Yields April 13, 2014
• A Primer on Ontario Cropping and Tillage Systems April 6, 2014
• How Can You Tell What “Good” Science Really Says? January 13, 2014
• Additional Comments on the Issue of Neonicotinoid Seed Treatments and Bee Mortality October 15, 2013
• Summary Comments on the Issue of Neonicotinoid Seed Treatments and Bee Mortality September 7, 2013
• Full Statement by Professor Robert Friendship, University of Guelph on Study by Carman et al on Feeding of Genetically Modified Corn and Soybeans to Pigs June 14, 2013
• A Message for all you Older Guys/Gals: Get on Twitter May 14, 2013
• Why is Organic Agriculture so neglected by Organic Advocates? March 7, 2013
• Farmers Must Take the Lead on Sustainable Agricultural Development November 24, 2012
• Anti-GM Groups Undermine Global Efforts to Reduce Blindness and Hunger, while Exploiting Canadian Charities July 3, 2012