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OAC’s Kemptville campus funded for skills training

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Reading Time: 2 minutes The Ontario government has put up $2 million to extend skills training programs at the Ontario Agricultural College’s (OAC) soon-to-be-shuttered Kemptville campus for the coming academic year. The province announced the funding Tuesday for the campus to continue to host skills training programs that “support the agricultural sector in eastern Ontario,” including the agricultural equipment […] Read more
Combine and tractor harvesting in a field.
Machinery

Farmers are from Mars…

… consumers are from Venus. There’s a disconnect between what consumers want to know about food and what farmers think they need to tell them

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Reading Time: 5 minutes As I drove past a local equipment dealership recently, my eye wandered over to a long row of shiny new four-wheel drive tractors sitting on the lot. As I admired them, I wondered how many of the people travelling past on the nearby highway who have never set foot on a farm really understand what […] Read more
The snow covering this field of corn stubble on Tuesday (April 15) is now mostly gone. (Ralph Pearce photo)
Crops, Machinery, Weather

Pearce: Weather not the only story in Ont. fields

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Reading Time: 2 minutes The planting season always seems that much closer when the first meeting of extension staff with the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food and local retailers and advisers is held. It provides a first glimpse of the region’s wheat crop as it comes out of dormancy, and an assessment of local field activity, including planting […] Read more
Farm equipment: Yetter Air Adjust planter
Machinery, Machinery Guide

Planter equipment to help you in the field

Plus, a new Bobcat compatible with 40 or more attachments

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Reading Time: 3 minutes What’s new? At this time of year, that’s a question that applies to a lot of things on the farm, from the weather forecast to the crop plan, the commodity price outlook, and of course, machinery. This is that “in between” time, after the farm shows and before the ground is quite ready. This past […] Read more
Crops, Machinery, Reuters

Scientists make ethanol without corn or other crops

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Washington | Reuters — Scientists said Wednesday they have developed a new way to make liquid ethanol efficiently without using corn or other crops needed in the conventional method for producing the biofuel. The scientists said their process turns carbon monoxide gas into liquid ethanol with the help of an electrode made of a form […] Read more
Crops, Machinery, Markets, Reuters

Bill to force railways to pay for poor service bound for Commons

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Reuters — Federal legislators on Monday amended a bill designed to ensure grain moves smoothly by rail by allowing the government to order railways to compensate shippers for poor service. The Canadian Transportation Agency currently has authority only to arbitrate matters on which the parties mutually agree. Railways can avoid paying compensation simply by refusing […] Read more
This stolen Deere 6400 did a complete rollover Wednesday while trying to back down a hill in the Blackfalds, Alta. area with Mounties in pursuit. (Photo courtesy Blackfalds RCMP)
Crops, Machinery

Mountie pursues stolen tractor on snowmobile

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Reading Time: < 1 minute RCMP at Blackfalds, Alta., north of Red Deer, have charged a 25-year-old man with theft and breaking and entering in the wake of a rural “mini-crime spree” and a wild, albeit geared-down, chase through snow-covered fields. CLICK HERE to read Alexis Kienlen’s story on the Alberta Farmer website.

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