Recent Posts

• Update on Fuel Ethanol: Its Value in Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Canada
• Overview of New Canadian Clean Fuel Regulations – Implications for Biofuel and Farmers
• What Percentage of Canadian Net Greenhouse Gas Emissions are caused by Agriculture? It all depends on How They Are Calculated?
• Improved Method for Calculating Methane Effects on Global Warming Means Huge Differences in Canadian and Canadian Agricultural GHG Emissions and Trends
• How Well are Canada and Canadian Agriculture Doing in Reducing Net GHG Emissions – In Comparison with International Commitments and Other Countries?
• A Brief Guide to Mennonites and Amish – especially Old Order – in Ontario
• 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
• The Ontario Corn Committee – Still Advancing Hybrid Corn after 83 Years
• The Long-Forgotten Ontario Corn Growers’ Association, 1908-1942
• The Pioneers of Hybrid Corn in Canada
• Why Do We Grow Yellow Dent Corn?
• A Look at UK and Canadian Stats on Agricultural Greenhouse Gas Emissions
• How Early Farmers Grew Corn – Even as Wheat Dominated 19th Century Agriculture
• How Corn Began
• A Brief History of the Hybrid Corn Industry
• How and When Corn Came to Canada, and How it was Grown
• A ‘ Kentucky Derby Weekend’ Tribute to the Remarkable Dr. Bill Duncan
• My Introduction to Dr. Christine Jones
• Can We Improve the Soil Sustainability of a Corn-Soybean Crop Rotation?
• Why Lynas’ Book, Seeds of Science, Made Me Angry! Fortunately, the Greenpeace Strategy Fizzled in Canada. Here’s Why
• Comments on: “When Too Much Isn’t Enough: Does Current Food Production Meet Global Nutritional Needs?”
• Comments on: Association of Frequency of Organic Food Consumption with Cancer Risk
• The Kevin Folta I Know – And What About That Industry Money?
• 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
• What’s Your View on Mandatory Labelling of GM Foods? It depends so much on whether you have ‘Skin In The Game’
• Ontario Bee Association lobbies for far greater limits on pesticide seed treatments based on flawed environment ministry data
• In Praise of Pesticides: Let’s stop assuming that complete pesticide elimination is a laudable and realistic goal – for it is neither
• York-Laval University Paper on Neonics and Bees Marred by Inconsistencies, Data Deficiencies, Dubious Bee Management and Weak Statistics
• Comments on “Status and Trends of Pollinator Health in Ontario” (A review by Pindar et al., March 2017, University of Guelph)
• Turning the Farming Clock Back in Time Means More Expensive Food
• How Tides Canada uses its Charitable Status to Attack Agricultural Biotechnology
• The Pluses and Minuses – What Genetically Engineered (GE) Crops Mean on Our Farm
• Report by the Environmental Commissioner of Ontario on Soil Health Badly Weakened by Inaccuracies, Omissions, Superficiality and another Agenda
• How to Communicate with the Public About GMOs and Related Farm Technologies
• New Insights on Organic and Non-Organic Crops: USDA Data Show Organics Average 67% of Yield of Non-organics
• What should I as a Farmer do about Milkweeds, Monarchs and GE crops? What does Science say?
• Why a Century-long Trend for Lower Relative Food Costs may be About to End
• Agricultural Anti-GMO Activism is Probably Not About the Technology At All
• “A Genetically Modified Organic Wheat? It Already Exists”
• Facing the Lesser-known Challenge: An Over-Abundance of Agricultural Productivity
• What We Have Learned from the Neonic Fiasco in Ontario
• What Killed Ontario Bees Last Winter?
• 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
• Greater and More-Visible Leadership on Sustainable Agriculture Needed from Farm Organizations
• What Corn-Canola Comparisons Tell us about Neonics and Bees – Plenty Actually
• Roots – The Secret to Record Corn Yields
• A Primer on Ontario Cropping and Tillage Systems
• Comments on the 2014 Guelph Organic Conference
• John Morriss: Different this Time —- Again
• How Can You Tell What “Good” Science Really Says?