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Close-up of last will and testament document

A co-trustee’s responsibility

Guide Legal: If asked to serve as a co-trustee, be aware that acting as a rubber stamp will not protect you if things go wrong

By Nadia Campion, Sarah Walker August 16, 2017

Reading Time: 4 minutes When drafting a will, parents often name more than one of their children as the trustees of their estate. Given the dynamics between siblings, it is not uncommon for one child to take on a more active role than another in administering the estate. However, in a recent decision, the Court of Appeal for Ontario […] Read more

Forages, Livestock, Weather

Drought-related livestock tax deferral zones widen again

By Country Guide Staff August 14, 2017

Reading Time: 2 minutes More ranchers in five provinces may now be able to defer some of their taxable income from their livestock sales in 2016 due to drought. The federal government on Aug. 4 announced its final list of drought-designated regions where the livestock tax deferral provision will be allowed for the 2016 tax year, and has included […] Read more

An adult small hive beetle. (Omafra.gov.on.ca)

Livestock

Small hive beetle appears in New Brunswick

By Country Guide Staff July 24, 2017

Reading Time: < 1 minute An emerging pest in honeybee colonies has made its way into New Brunswick for the first time. The province’s agriculture department last month quarantined 12 beekeepers’ colonies that were in “close proximity” to colonies imported from an Ontario beekeeper to pollinate wild blueberries in the Acadian Peninsula. However, the department said Friday, two beetles have […] Read more

Western bean cutworms feeding in corn in 2011.

Corn, Crops, Production

Scouting, spray timing critical for western bean cutworm control

By John Greig July 22, 2017

Reading Time: 3 minutes Conditions are right for a western bean cutworm year in Ontario corn and it’s time to scout — but likely not yet to spray. Western bean cutworm (WBC) is now the most economically damaging pest in Ontario corn. It feeds on the tassel and ears of corn and doesn’t particularly affect yield, but the feeding […] Read more

Ontario farmers, such as this one harvesting near Lucan, Ont. say yields are as good as last year, with this farm seeing about 100 bushels per acre.

Crops, Production, Winter Wheat

Ontario winter wheat crop yielding well, quality good

By John Greig July 21, 2017

Reading Time: 2 minutes Ontario’s winter wheat crop is living up to its great expectations after a warm winter and lots of spring rain got it off to a great start. Farmers have been harvesting the crop for two weeks in the southwest of the province, but are just getting going in other areas. “I think the wheat’s looking […] Read more

Canola, Crops, Production

VIDEO: Curbing clubroot in Ontario canola

By John Greig July 19, 2017

Reading Time: < 1 minute During a recent canola growers’ day at Arthur, Ont., Dan Orchard, an agronomist with the Canola Council of Canada, brought his years of experience managing clubroot in Alberta to Ontario growers. Canola fields affected by clubroot were first found last year in Ontario. With some diligence, Orchard said, the problem should be able to be […] Read more

Crops, Production, Soybeans

Minimal issues reported with dicamba drift in Ontario

By John Greig July 19, 2017

Reading Time: 3 minutes UPDATED, July 21, 2017 — There appear to be few dicamba drift problems in Ontario, unlike in other soybean-growing areas in the U.S. The provincial environment and climate change ministry, the body to which spray drift problems are reported in the province, has heard of some anecdotal cases this year, but nothing significant, according to […] Read more

Deb Campbell, of Agronomy Advantage, says the research at the site aims to figure out how to grow more profitable canola in Ontario.

Canola, Crops, Features

Greig: Centre backs Ontario canola growers’ push for profitability

By John Greig July 14, 2017

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

Dairy Cattle, Livestock

Ontario processor fined for faux-kosher cheese

By Country Guide Staff July 8, 2017

Reading Time: 2 minutes An Ontario food processing company has been slapped with $25,000 in fines for labelling non-kosher cheese as kosher, in the first Canadian case of its kind to get to a provincial court. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency on Wednesday reported Creation Foods Co. of Woodbridge had pled guilty June 22 in the Ontario Court of […] Read more

Wheat stood up well during the rain, other than in low-lying areas.

Crops, Weather

VIDEO: Big rain in southern Ontario poses crop challenges

By John Greig June 26, 2017

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.

Daily Network News

Southern California honeybees show resistance to varroa mites

Pulse Weekly: SaskPulse optimistic despite input, crop price concerns

Canadian aquaculture should be classed as agriculture, industry groups say

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