2025 March Classic
Leading the Way
From government policy to new and expanded markets, growth in key research areas, increasing public trust, and changes in governance that encourage equity, diversity, and inclusion, Grain Farmers of Ontario has led the way in Ontario’s agriculture industry for more than 15 years. Join Grain Farmers of Ontario at the 2025 March Classic: Leading The Way to celebrate 15 years of strength, leadership, and a legacy of making a difference for grain farmers. At this event, we will look at what the future might hold for agriculture and find new opportunities for grain farmers in Ontario to continue leading the way.

Thanks for joining us for the 2025 March Classic
Mark your calendars: the next March Classic is March 17, 2026




Recorded presentations
Featuring these guest speakers

The U.S. Farm Report
With host Tyne Morgan
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On the air for more than four decades, U.S. Farm Report remains the longest-running syndicated television program focusing on agriculture, rural issues and the country lifestyle. Hosted by award-winning journalist Tyne Morgan, a new edition of the program airs each weekend on stations coast-to-coast.
The U.S Farm Report: @USFarmReport
Tyne Morgan: @Tyne_Ag

Vance Crowe
Communications Strategist
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Vance Crowe is a communications strategist that has worked for corporations and international organizations around the world. He has spoken before more than 250,000 people, answering questions about some of the most sophisticated and controversial technologies in the modern age. Vance helps organizations realize why the general public doesn’t agree with their perspective and offers new ways to communicate effectively, resolve disagreements, and build rapport with critics and stakeholders. Vance has worked for organizations as varied as the World Bank, Monsanto, the US Peace Corps and even as a deckhand on an ecotourism ship.
X: @VanceCrowe

Linda Nazareth
Economist, Futurist and Author
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Linda Nazareth is an economist, a futurist and a respected authority on the future of work. As a newspaper columnist and an author, she knows how to frame things in ways that both educate and entertain and as the Senior Fellow for Economics and Population Change at think-tank the Macdonald Laurier Institute she knows what she is talking about.
Linda’s career has taken some non-traditional turns for someone in her field. Her first jobs were as a government economist where she specialized in labour market planning, which was followed by a stint at a major financial institution where she spent years as a Senior Economist. Wanting to change things up while she could, she lobbied to have a job created for her on Business News Network (BNN, Canada’s answer to CNBC) while it was a start-up and spent a decade on-air as their in-house economist
X: @relentlesseco

Innovation in Agriculture panel
With moderator Joe Dales, RHA Ventures
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Join us for an engaging panel discussion on the future of innovation in agriculture, where industry leaders and visionaries will explore cutting-edge advancements shaping how we grow, produce, and sustain the world’s food supply, with moderator Joe Dales, from RHA Ventures.
For March Classic sponsorship opportunities & exhibitor opportunities, please contact:
Joanne Tichborne
Advertising Sales Representative
jtichborne@gfo.ca
226-332-3637
Sponsors
Exhibitors
- A&L Canada Laboratories
- ACC
- Ag Business & Crop Inc.
- Agricorp
- Agriculture Wellness Ontario
- Agro-100
- Alco Energy Canada
- Alpine
- ALUS Middlesex
- BASF Canada Inc.
- Bayer CropScience Inc.
- Belchim Canada
- Broadgrain
- C&M Seeds
- Canadian Foodgrains Bank
- Canadian Grain Commission
- CanGrow Crop Solutions
- Cargill Sarnia
- CASA/WSPS
- CASE IH
- Christian Farmers Federation of Ontario
- Corteva Agriscience Canada
- De Dell Seeds
- Desjardins
- DG Global
- Farm Credit Canada
- Fieldwalker Agronomy
- FMC
- FS Co-operatives
- G3 Canada Limited
- Ganaraska Systems Inc.
- Gowan Canada
- Grain Farmers of Ontario
- Hensall Co-op
- Horst Systems
- Ingredion Canada Corporation
- John Deere Canada
- Josslin Insurance
- Koch Agronomic Services
- LAC
- Libro Credit Union
- Maizex Seeds
- Meridian Manufacturing
- Montag
- Nexeed Inc.
- Nicola Wealth
- Nutri -Pel
- OMAFA
- Ontario Federation of Agriculture
- Ontario Plowmen’s Association
- OSCIA
- Parrish & Heimbecker
- Pioneer Hi-Bred Canada
- Pride Seeds
- Prograin
- RBC
- Roberts Farm Equipment
- Scotiabank
- SeCan
- SGS Canada
- TD Agriculture Services
- The Andersons
- The Commonwell Mutual Insurance Group
- UAP Canada