New GoCrops.ca website launched

Guelph, ON –  – The Ontario Corn Committee (OCC), the Ontario Cereal Crops Committee (OCCC), the Ontario Pulse Crop Committee (OPCC), and the Ontario Soybean and Canola Committee (OSACC) today launch a new website: GoCrops.ca. The new site brings together four previous websites, www.gocorn.net, www.gocereals.ca, www.gobeans.ca, and www.gosoy.ca under one cohesive banner.

The legacy websites for each of the crop committees had been active for many years and had unique navigation and structures that made the user experience different for each site. The committees agreed that a more cohesive structure would make it easier for the agricultural community to find information and to intuitively use a single site for access to all the information across crops.

“With this new website, we are excited to streamline the process for our growers across Ontario to get information regarding variety performance trials across all major crops in one place,” says Joanna Follings, Chair of the Ontario Cereal Crops Committee. “Providing timely, accurate information in a modern digital format is vitally important for reaching farmers. This new site will help all committees meet this need and we hope to see this become the go-to site for farmers looking for trial information.”

Ontario farmers rely on third-party variety performance trial information to guide and inform their seed selection decisions and choose which varieties to grow in their fields. GoCrops.ca provides a way for farmers to access all of this information in one easy-to-navigate spot.

“Consolidating the crop committee websites presented the perfect opportunity to update the look, feel, and functionality of the corn committee site while ensuring ease of accessibility and long-term viability of trial data for Ontario farmers,” says Ben Rosser, Chair of the Ontario Corn Committee.?

“The importance of selecting high yielding and adapted field crop varieties and hybrids is critical to Ontario’s future sustainability. Variety and hybrid performance testing, along with food quality analysis plays a crucial role and the new GoCrops.ca website ensures Ontario farmers are positioned to meet whatever lies ahead,” says Albert Tenuta, Chair, Ontario Soybean and Canola Committee.

OCC, which conducts the Ontario hybrid corn performance trials, OCCC, which conducts the winter wheat, spring wheat, barley, and oat performance trials, OPCC, which conducts the Ontario dry bean variety trials, and OSACC, which conducts the Ontario soybean variety trials were instrumental in the development of GoCrops.ca. GoCrops.ca was funded in part by the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs, Grain Farmers of Ontario, and the Ontario Pulse Crop Committee.