Better Farming | October 2024

51 Ate Today? Thank a Farmer. Better Farming | October 2024 Because the World’s Best Farmers Deserve the Hardest-Working Farm Magazine. Your ‘Better Farming’ Crop Advisor Team Bringing Ontario’s crop farmers the best advice & insight, for 25 years now. Patrick’s column has run in Better Farming since its launch in 1999. He is a member of the Ontario Agricultural Hall of Fame who has been a widely respected crop specialist for some 50 years. Patrick helped introduce the Certified Crop Advisor program in Ontario and helped establish the reduced tillage and soil conservation movements here. Pat continues to offer controversial and innovative ideas to encourage cash-croppers to think creatively to solve problems. Noted for teaching precision farming and 4-R Nutrient Stewardship, Dale’s “Yield Matters” has been in Better Farming since the beginning. He’s a member of the Ontario Ag Hall of Fame and was instrumental in bringing the Certified Crop Advisor program here. Dale began developing the digital ag strategy in 1993 to launch the precision ag movement in Ontario and emphasized capturing and analyzing field data. In 2016 he was named International CCA of the Year. Paul is an area agronomist with Corteva Agriscience and writes a regular agronomy and cash-cropping feature in Better Farming. Ontario agriculture is his passion and he has a strong reputation for helping cash-croppers solve problems through innovation, data analysis and informed management practices. His research has included corn population, fungicide, soybean row width/population and fertility work. Paul was the 2023 Ontario CCA of the Year Award winner. DALE COWAN PAUL HERMANS PATRICK LYNCH It’s Farming. And it’s Better. OntarioFarmlandTrust ontariofarmlandtrust Questions? Call: 519-781-3276 Joel Enman - Farmland Conservation Specialist, OFT Visit ontariofarmlandtrust.ca/resources to register for this and other webinars in the series. A donation upon registration is welcome so that we can continue to offer sessions like these. FREE WEBINAR: Farmland Forever: An Introduction to Farmland Protection Options for Landowners Join us as we outline methods that can be used to protect your farmland for generations to come. Join the Ontario Farmland Trust in a series of free online webinars to explore pressures on farmland, learn about solutions, and share innovative ideas! Megan Mills - Chair, Land Securement & Stewardship Committee, OFT Thursday, October 17, 2024 12:00pm-1:00pm

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