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Goals & Objectives

Goal
To target our research and innovation to opportunities that will enhance our farmer members’ returns.

Strategies

  • Invest GFO funds in research areas or projects of high priority to farmer members
  • Influence research priority setting in the grain sector
  • Encourage private sector investment in research that provides benefits to farmer members on production challenges and crop quality
  • Maximize the public sector research investment in the grain sector
  • Ensure that GFO plays an active role in supporting the commercialization of relevant research results
Investment in research is a long-term strategic initiative of the GFO for the benefit of all corn, soybean and wheat farmers. Ontario’s grain farmers have sponsored and participated in decades of practical research that has resulted in economic gains for Ontario farmers. The GFO Research Committee selects and funds projects that target the most important issues in the categories of Market Development and Quality, Breeding and Genetics, Agronomy and Production, and Diseases and Insects. Click here to view the 2011 Research Priorities.


Issues & Initiatives
Grain Farmers of Ontario Call for Proposals of Corn, Soybean and Wheat Research

To Corn, Soybean and Wheat Researchers
Due Date:  January 10, 2011 at 5:00 pm

GFO, formerly Ontario Corn Producers' Association, Ontario Soybean Growers and the Ontario Wheat Producers' Marketing Board, targets research and innovation to opportunities that will enhance our farmer members' returns.

Researchers seeking funding in 2011 must submit proposals by the deadline of Monday, January 10, 2011 at 5:00 pm. All proposals will be reviewed by the GFO Research Committee and the GFO Board of Directors. It is expected that researchers will be notified of the GFO’s funding decisions in mid February, 2011.

Please submit research proposals by email to Meghan Moran at mmoran@gfo.ca (MS Word format preferred).

Please follow the 2011 Guideline for Research Proposals.  Please also consider the Grain Farmers of Ontario 2011 Research Priorities to ensure that your proposal matches the GFO's priority areas of research. 

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me.

Meghan Moran
Research Coordinator

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