Reading Time: 2 minutes A look at organic regulation across the country by the Canadian Organic Trade Association (COTA) shows a hodge-podge of support, despite national standards in existence for eight years. In a report released Monday, COTA called out Ontario, the largest market by far for organic products, for having no organic regulations. Five other provinces, including some […] Read more
Organic groups call for Ontario regulations
Greig: Centre backs Ontario canola growers’ push for profitability
Reading Time: 5 minutes A Canola Learning Centre has been created to try to solve some of the challenges Ontario farmers have growing consistent, profitable canola. Canola is now the largest crop grown in Canada, this year overtaking wheat, but in Ontario canola acres have been decreasing, by about a third in the past five years, to 40,000 acres, […] Read more
Guelph gets new beef research facility
Reading Time: 3 minutes The federal and provincial governments and the Beef Farmers of Ontario have all announced funding for buildings and programs at the University of Guelph’s renewed beef research station this week. The funds announced are to help create a completely new cow-calf and heifer research facility next to the current beef research station, and a new […] Read more
Rain means much of Ontario first cut hay is yet to be harvested
Forage quality declining with each passing day
Reading Time: 2 minutes Wet weather that has much of the Ontario first cut hay crop still standing in the field hasn’t yet changed the price for hay. Typically, the first cut hay harvest is mostly complete by the first of July, but regular rains in June this year have left hay in the field and declining in quality each […] Read more
VIDEO: Record amount of equipment at Ontario Forage Expo
Reading Time: < 1 minute More than 40 pieces of equipment were operating live in the field at Ontario Forage Expo for farmers to see in action and measure up.
National dairy group loses executive director
Reading Time: < 1 minute Caroline Emond has resigned as executive director of Dairy Farmers of Canada (DFC) after two and half years in the position. Emond will be stepping down effective July 4, DFC announced Wednesday. Emond has dealt with some significant files and changes to dairy marketing since she replaced long-time retiring executive director Richard Doyle. She has […] Read more
Big rains put Ontario crops under water
Time is now the factor for submerged crops if they are to remain healthy
Reading Time: 3 minutes A huge rainfall across midwestern Ontario has put fields of crops underwater. The rain, overnight June 22, totalled four to eight inches in an area from Goderich to east of the Grand River, flooding towns built generations ago along the rivers, forcing cattle to higher ground and leaving growing crops covered in water. Low points […] Read more
VIDEO: Big rain in southern Ontario poses crop challenges
Reading Time: < 1 minute A wide area of midwestern Ontario got around six inches of rain on June 22, flooding parts of small towns and turning many fields in the area into swamps.
Ontario hog farmers to get new options with Michigan plant
Reading Time: 2 minutes A combination of hog prices remaining high despite good supplies and a new processing plant in nearby Michigan have Ontario hog farmers optimistic about the near future. “It’s unambiguously good news to have more processing capacity close to Ontario,” said Patrick O’Neil, Ontario Pork’s marketing division manager, at the Ontario Pork Congress. The Clemens Food […] Read more
VIDEO: Hog farmers at Ontario Pork Congress optimistic
Reading Time: < 1 minute Glacier FarmMedia’s John Greig attended the recent Ontario Pork Congress in Stratford, Ont., and spoke with the chair of Ontario Pork about the future of the province’s pork industry and what role international markets are likely to play in the coming future.
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