Since 2010, the organization has awarded individual annual grants of up to $50,000 through its Grains Innovation Fund. It’s all in a bid to expand consumption of Ontario corn, soybeans, barley, oats and wheat. Recent awardeesOntario Corn Fed Beef — export marketingLivestock production is the number one user of Ontario corn, and the Ontario Cattle Feeders Associations’ Corn Fed Beef initiative takes that to the next level. GFO’s Grain Innovations Fund helped these producers promote their product overseas in 2019. In 2020, the GFO Fund helped a Mount Forest-based company, The Straw Boss, which makes and sells a pelleted wheat straw.

Source: CBC News December 20, 2022 07:04 UTC