13th Annual Great Lakes Grain Crop Assessment Tour Scheduled

Great Lakes Grain announced the 13th annual Great Lakes Grain Crop Assessment Tour scheduled for Aug. 29 to Sept. 9. Throughout the tour, Great Lakes Grain staff and partners from AGRIS Co-operative, FS PARTNERS and Coop Embrun will scout corn and soybean fields with farmers who sign up for the tour. The team will conduct yield estimates, gauge crop progress and evaluate the overall health of Ontario corn and soybean crops.

By assessing these crops, the team can work with producers to understand if they have further opportunities to market their grain. Interested producers can have their fields assessed by registering through the Great Lakes Grain website at www.greatlakesgrain.com/2022-Crop-assessment-request-form

The benefit of the crop tour is to have a better understanding of overall corn and soybean crop health and yield for farmer participants, exporters and end-users. This assists all parties to make agronomic, economic and handling decisions for the 2022-23 crop. Great Lakes Grain also encourages the participation of industry end-users to accompany the tour.

"County yield results will be released at Canada's Outdoor Farm Show at Woodstock, Ontario, on Sept. 13. We are truly looking forward to visiting with our producers and their families to share the results of the tour," says Don Kabbes, general manager of Great Lakes Grains. "We're excited with our continued support of COFS this fall, under the FS Ontario System."

Once again, Great Lakes Grain would like to thank Bayer Crop Science and DEKALB for their continued tour sponsorship.

Great Lakes Grain is a grain marketing partnership between AGRIS Co-operative Ltd., GROWMARK, Inc. (including FS PARTNERS, a division of GROWMARK, Inc.) and Coop Embrun. Great Lakes Grain is one of the largest operators of Ontario country elevators. It represents over 20 million bushels of storage capacity with total marketing of over 50 million bushels. Great Lakes Grain serves farmers out of 27 AGRIS Co-operative, FS PARTNERS, and Coop Embrun branded locations spanning Windsor through to Ottawa and north to Georgian Bay. For more information visit www.greatlakesgrain.com.