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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

Livestock

Ont. to seek community ownership for ex-Guelph ag campuses

By Country Guide Staff January 30, 2015

Reading Time: 3 minutes With recommendations in hand, the Ontario government plans to clear a path for the use of two soon-to-be-former University of Guelph ag campuses as new community-backed ag schools. The province on Friday laid out its response to last month’s recommendations from its appointed facilitators, Lyle Vanclief and Marc Godbout, on the future of Guelph’s Kemptville […] Read more

Crops

The changing face of winter

Winter is getting shorter, and this Ontario study found the growing season is four weeks longer

By Ralph Pearce January 26, 2015

Reading Time: 3 minutes Instead of calling it climate change, maybe the phrase should be “winter change.” For the last six years, Trevor Dickinson, professor emeritus and a team from the University of Guelph have been studying temperature records from across Ontario, most of which date back 70 years, with some as old as 145 years, and their big […] Read more

Guide Business

What students need for future success as farmers

Top ag educators tell us the good and the not so good they see in Canada’s next generation of farm hopefuls

By Maggie Van Camp November 27, 2014

Reading Time: 7 minutes The future stretches and sways like a Prairie grain field, endless and heavy with possibilities. Like storm clouds, though, threats and risks also gather. What strengths and skills will farmers need to succeed in the future we’re rushing toward? With the turnover between generations accelerating, it’s a question that is coming squarely into play on […] Read more

Guide Business, Management

Farm debt ratio in Canada could create an agricultural ‘bust’

Will history repeat itself, with a sell-off fuelled by farm debt?

By Gerald Pilger November 26, 2014

Reading Time: 5 minutes Are we heading into another bust in agriculture, as happened in the late 1920s and in the 1980s? This is the fear of some farmers, and of some agricultural economists too. George Brinkman, professor emeritus at the University of Guelph, believes Canadian farmers are seriously over-leveraged and that there simply is not enough farm income […] Read more

Corn, Crops, Soybeans, Spring Wheat, Winter Wheat

When it comes to crop rotation planning, there’s an app for that

#PestPatrol with Mike Cowbrough, OMAFRA

By Mike Cowbrough November 19, 2014

Reading Time: < 1 minute Crop prices are certainly more bearish now than they have been during the past two seasons, and because of this some farmers will question whether they should tweak their cropping rotation in the short term or stay the course. Now there is a smartphone app called “Cash Cropper” that will help you to evaluate: The […] Read more

Crops, Production

Tufted vetch takes off

Tufted vetch not a new weed, just a different weed challenge

By Ralph Pearce July 14, 2014

Reading Time: 3 minutes The battle with weeds just never seems to end, and now, as if resistant weeds, dandelions or Eastern black nightshade don’t provide enough challenges, there’s some concern that tufted vetch will be a growing issue for an increasing number of farmers. To be fair, Canada fleabane, giant ragweed and common ragweed are still the “Big […] Read more

Daily Network News

Trump tells farmers that tractor companies should lower prices

Get farmers in on federal water security strategy planning, CFA says

U.S. finalizes biofuel blending quotas for 2026-27, cuts RINS for foreign feedstocks

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