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Western corn rootworm larvae. (Scott Bauer photo courtesy ARS/USDA)

Court rejects Ont. growers’ bid for stay on neonic regs

The association for Ontario corn and soybean growers is “evaluating several options” after its request for a stay of the province’s new limits on neonicotinoid seed treatments was rejected. The Ontario Superior Court denied the request from Grain Farmers of Ontario (GFO) for a stay and interpretation on the neonic regulations, which became law in

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Ont. farmers file for stay of province’s neonic regs

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff June 29, 2015

Ontario’s corn and soybean grower group is taking the province’s planned regulations on the use and sale of pesticide-treated seed to court. Grain Farmers of Ontario (GFO) said Monday it filed a request late last week with the provincial Superior Court of Justice in Toronto, seeking a legal “interpretation” of the province’s rules on neonicotinoid-treated

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Ont. books drop in bee death ‘incidents’ at planting

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff June 18, 2015

Early data from federal pesticide regulators appear to suggest Ontario’s bee yards are moving past a spell of unusually high death losses seen around the 2012 and 2013 planting seasons. Combining the numbers of acute honey bee mortality “incidents” by bee yard in Ontario in the 2015 pre-planting and planting periods, up to June 11, Health Canada’s

Grain Farmers of Ontario chair Mark Brock speaks with media Friday on the front lawn of MPP Deb Matthews’ riding office in London, Ont. (Ralph Pearce photo)

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Pearce: GFO goes informative rather than inflammatory

By GFM Network News June 1, 2015

It’s not that farmers in Ontario aren’t frustrated and angry concerning legislation aimed at curbing the use of neonicotinoid seed treatments. They are. However, during a protest Friday in front of Ontario Deputy Premier Deb Matthews’ riding office in London, executives with the Grain Farmers of Ontario and roughly 35 farmers took a more proactive

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Ontario won’t widen comment window on neonics: GFO

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff May 5, 2015

The public comment period on Ontario’s planned regulations for neonicotinoid seed treatments will close Thursday as scheduled, despite requests from the province’s grain grower group for an extension. The province has “refused” to extend the public comment period on the use of the insecticide group in seed treatments, Grain Farmers of Ontario said in a

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GFO seeks longer comment period on neonic regs

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff April 27, 2015

Grain Farmers of Ontario wants the province’s environment ministry to reconsider the rush on the comment period for its proposed new controls on neonicotinoid seed treatments. The province has given the public, farmers included, a 45-day period ending May 7 to comment on its proposed regulations. “This is one of the busiest times of the

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Grain industry mostly supports C-48, proposed changes to CGC

“This is basically what we’ve been asking for,” said KAP president Doug Chorney

By Allan Dawson December 30, 2014

Farm and industry groups are giving mainly thumbs up to Bill C-48, the Modernization of Canada’s Grain Industry Act. The Keystone Agricultural Producers (KAP), Canadian Canola Growers Association, Grain Growers of Canada and the Western Canadian Wheat Growers Association support the bill. However, the Wheat Growers said in a release that CGC inspection on offshore

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Ontario proposes deep cuts to farmers’ neonic use by 2017

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff November 25, 2014

Ontario’s new goal to ban most use of neonicotinoid pesticides in corn and soybean crops by 2017 has yielded bouquets from the province’s beekeepers — but left crop growers feeling stung. Following up on Premier Kathleen Wynne’s orders to her agriculture and environment ministers in their mandate letters in September, the province on Tuesday announced it will consult on

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Ont. barley, oat growers set to vote on GFO membership

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff October 27, 2014

Ontario’s Farm Products Marketing Commission will run a vote for the province’s oats and barley growers starting Friday, to decide whether Grain Farmers of Ontario (GFO) will be the growers’ voice going forward. The commission will conduct a mail-in vote from Friday (Oct. 31) to Nov. 17 to see whether oat and barley growers wish

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Tag Archives GFO

Court rejects Ont. growers’ bid for stay on neonic regs

Ont. farmers file for stay of province’s neonic regs

Ont. books drop in bee death ‘incidents’ at planting

Pearce: GFO goes informative rather than inflammatory

Ontario won’t widen comment window on neonics: GFO

GFO seeks longer comment period on neonic regs

Grain industry mostly supports C-48, proposed changes to CGC

Ontario proposes deep cuts to farmers’ neonic use by 2017

Ont. barley, oat growers set to vote on GFO membership

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