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Ontario won’t widen comment window on neonics: GFO

By Country Guide Staff May 5, 2015

Reading Time: < 1 minute The public comment period on Ontario’s planned regulations for neonicotinoid seed treatments will close Thursday as scheduled, despite requests from the province’s grain grower group for an extension. The province has “refused” to extend the public comment period on the use of the insecticide group in seed treatments, Grain Farmers of Ontario said in a […] Read more

(Stephen Ausmus photo courtesy ARS/USDA)

Livestock, Markets, Poultry/Eggs, Reuters

Saudi Arabia bans Ont. poultry, egg products

By Reuters April 29, 2015

Reading Time: < 1 minute Reuters — Saudi Arabia, the world’s second-largest importer of chicken broiler meat, has banned imports of poultry meat and egg products from Ontario due to the presence of avian flu on three Ontario farms. The market was worth about $825,000 in 2014, representing 0.4 per cent of Ontario’s poultry exports, said Patrick Girard, spokesman for […] Read more

Corn

Demand for silage corn hybrids gets a new look

New research pinpoints the link between population in the field and quality in the barn

By Ralph Pearce April 27, 2015

Reading Time: 6 minutes The past 15 to 20 years have seen a tremendous evolution in corn breeding and trait development, from Bt and corn rootworm hybrids to stacked trait technologies, not to mention the adoption of multi-purpose hybrids. In that same time frame, however, there’s been a display of defiance from producers who demand a dedicated silage hybrid […] Read more

Beef Cattle, Livestock

Ontario doubles down on feeder cattle loans

By Country Guide Staff April 10, 2015

Reading Time: < 1 minute Ontario cattle feeders will be able to take out larger loans to buy livestock under an expansion of the provincial feeder cattle loan guarantee program. The program guarantees 25 per cent of a financial institution’s loan to one of Ontario’s 18 feeder cattle co-operatives, which then allows the co-op’s members a “more competitive” interest rate […] Read more

Corn, Crops, Soybeans

Neonic rules ‘unworkable’ for Ont. corn, soy growers

By Country Guide Staff April 9, 2015

Reading Time: 2 minutes Ontario’s planned regulation to limit the use of neonicotinoid seed treatments might as well be a ban from where the organization sits representing the province’s corn and soy producers. After reviewing the draft regulation, which provincial officials posted March 23 for public comment until May 7, Grain Farmers of Ontario said Thursday it “strongly opposes […] Read more

Livestock, Markets, Poultry/Eggs, Reuters

Taiwan, Japan ban Ont. poultry over avian flu

By Rod Nickel April 7, 2015

Reading Time: < 1 minute Winnipeg | Reuters — Japan and Taiwan have imposed trade restrictions on poultry and poultry products from Ontario, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency said Tuesday, a day after avian flu was confirmed in the province. The government agency said a turkey farm near Woodstock, Ont. was under quarantine after the presence of H5 avian influenza […] Read more

Crops, Guide Business

The mother-daughter farm team of Blythe Brae Farms

By embracing the belief that leadership is a skill you can get better at, this mother-daughter team is smoothly integrating two generations in a complex farm

By Helen Lammers-Helps March 30, 2015

Reading Time: 6 minutes Go with your strengths. Then find resource people to help you fill in the gaps. That’s one of the guiding management principles of mother-daughter duo Sharon Hart and Valerie Hobbs who own and manage Blythe Brae Farms near Woodstock, Ont. Hart and Hobbs share responsibility for operations, finance, human resources and marketing at Blythe Brae […] Read more

Corn, Crops, Markets, Soybeans

Ontario’s neonic limits tabled for public comment

By Country Guide Staff March 24, 2015

Reading Time: 3 minutes Proposed new controls on the use and sale of corn and soybean seed treated with neonicotinoid pesticides in Ontario are up for public comment between now and early May. The provincial government made its move Monday — three days ahead of a scheduled meeting between Agriculture Minister Jeff Leal and Grain Farmers of Ontario chairman […] Read more

Crops, Soybeans

The road ahead for soybean growers

Soybean Guide: What makes you so sure that you can plant more soybeans and still pull off good yields?

By Ralph Pearce March 10, 2015

Reading Time: 8 minutes Soybeans, soybeans — and more soybeans. That’s the forecast from most corners of the agri-food industry, whether it’s based in Western Canada or in the East. Soybean production in Canada was big in 2014 and it’s on a path to grow even bigger in 2015. At the same time, that growth will come at a […] Read more

Crops, Guide Business

Who’s buying up Canadian farmland?

Are non-farmers snapping up too much Canadian farmland? Nobody knows, especially in Ottawa

By Gerald Pilger February 10, 2015

Reading Time: 5 minutes Again this winter, ownership of farmland is a heated topic in coffee shops across rural Canada. Rumours abound. Sometimes, it’s foreign buyers who are said to be gobbling up huge chunks of prime farmland, paying prices that Canadian farmers can’t afford. Other times, it’s pension funds or rich non-farm investors. Whoever tells the stories, the […] Read more

Daily Network News

Despite cheaper land costs, Canadian farmers at slight revenue disadvantage to U.S.

Feed grain weekly: Western Canadian barley bids seasonally firm

China’s Q1 pork output up 4.2 per cent from a year earlier, lags expectations

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