Our friends at @SoilNetwork are hosting the Network Challenge to help farmers build skills to grow their network and assist with their soil health journey. Interested? Scan the QR code to find out more 🌱
Cover Crop Survey Returns!
Backed by the University of Manitoba, Manitoba Agriculture & the Ontario Cover Crop Steering Committee, this survey builds on 2020 findings that shaped national conversations.
Farms in Ontario are invited to take this survey: https://t.co/2t5mcpoxJH
@GrainFarmers
Our Improving Farm Resiliency webinar is now live on YouTube!
Hear from @LauraVanEerd , and Ontario farmers @ssickle, @ThomasFarrell23, and Dean Orr as they share what actually worked in a tough 2025 season.
📺 Watch the full recording:
https://t.co/gkoSUACado
Join us at Ecological Farmers Association of Ontario’s online Research Symposium: Dec. 1 from 9:30am-12:30pm. Learn about farmer-led research projects and multi-farm trials from Living Lab-Ontario: no-till potato using deep mulch, plant available nitrogen from cover crops & no-till winter squash with mulch.
Learn more! https://t.co/qC7ltEpebU
🚨 Update: Due to overwhelming interest, we’ve opened a few additional spots for our Dec 8 Farm Resiliency webinar.
Register while they last → https://t.co/V1dcO0RWBz
#ontag
Dec 8 | 7:00–8:30 PM EST
2025 tested every farmer’s resilience - from cold starts to drought.
@LauraVanEerd, @ssickle, @ThomasFarrell23, Dean Orr, and Jake Munroe share research, on-farm experience, and resources to help build resilience.
Register → https://t.co/htV8PAfltx
Join @GrainFarmers of Ontario’s first GrainTALK webinar on Nov. 5 @ noon with Colin Elgie, OMAFA; Danny Jefferies, Honeyland Ag; Caleb Niemeyer, Woodrill Ltd. *OFCAF applicants must participate in an OSCIA #KSE to submit a claim. CEU credits available.
Register: https://t.co/AR2GWMvBwg
#ontag #GrainTALK #ontariosoilcrop
Countdown to Change: Four Days Until the CAREE Conference!
Join Panel 2, on October 30th at 1.45 pm ET
🌾 How is digitalization and AI reshaping the future of farming and advisory services? https://t.co/y4xm0I4Gfx @CAREE_Community
“You realize how much you can learn from just talking to other farmers.”
That’s what participants say about the OSN Network Challenge.
📅 Join the free Info Webinar – Nov 6, 7PM EST
🔗 https://t.co/XVoS2EBVFb
#OSN#SoilHealth#FarmerNetwork
🌱Ready to take the next step in your soil health journey?
Join us Nov 6 at 7PM (EST) for the 2026 Network Challenge Info Webinar - learn how Ontario farmers are connecting, sharing what works, and growing together.
🔗Register free: https://t.co/hrdWRocLrE
#ontag#soilhealth
POV: You let an agronomist into your classroom and everyone ends up covered in mud. 😅🌱
Sand, silt, clay — and a whole lot of learning today at Brookside PS! @SoilNetwork Challenge complete!
#SoilHealth#OntAg#Agronomy#OntarioSoilNetwork
Don't forget - this Thurs AM while the dew's still on the beans, head out to UGRC to check out the latest and greatest research on cover crops, nitrogen, and how they interact. No registration req'd, KSE and CEU credits available. Watch for the signs on 21 Hwy! @RidgetownCampus
Webinar: Strategic Cover Cropping with Dr. Lee Briese, CCA
Oct 1 | 10–11am ET | FREE
Learn how to match cover crop species to farm challenges & integrate herbicide programs that fit. Recognized #KSE for #OFCAF participants + CEU credits. Register: https://t.co/v4x7vA7oo5
#ontag #ontariosoilcrop #AgClimateSolutions @CCAOntario@AAFC_Canada
📢 Applications for the OSN Network Challenge are now open!
6 weeks. Real learning. Lasting community.
Apply today or learn more at → https://t.co/xARdJibBlK
Excellent tour today by @SoilNetwork of Middlesex Research Farm & @UTRCAmarketing work on controlled & contour drainage, ways to reduce P losses from the field. Essex OSN tour tomorrow! #oscia#conservation
I’m hanging out with the Ontario Soil Network tour today, including this stop at Harrison Bergsma’s farm near Dungannon. Projects have tried to slow down the water running through the Garvey Glenn watershed lessening crop land erosion before it dumps into Lake Huron.
The #OSNRoadTrip rolls on! Next week we’re in Huron County:
Tour @alan_willits black bean + cereal rye trials
Learn about funding opportunities with @maitlandvalley
Visit @HBurgsma farm for no-till + water management
Mon, Aug 25 | 12–6 PM
🔗 Register: https://t.co/QmkKMydMGa