ONTARIO SAW 152 BARN FIRES IN 2021
TORONTO — Ontario had 152 barn fires and record damages of just over $54 million in 2021, according to the most current statistics from the Ontario Fi... Read more
TORONTO — Ontario had 152 barn fires and record damages of just over $54 million in 2021, according to the most current statistics from the Ontario Fi... Read more
Beef farmer wins another round with PAWS trying to stick him with foster-farm bill Read more
Federally-inspected slaughterhouse suspended operations, CFIA reports Nelson Zandbergen Farmers Forum TORONTO — Farmer-owned TruHarvest Meats in Toron... Read more
Greenhouses, nurseries and flower producers report top Ontario farm income Farmers Forum staff OTTAWA — Total farm income increased in the first year... Read more
Nelson Zandbergen Farmer Forum OTTAWA — The number of farm employees in Canada held steady during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic while non-fa... Read more
The World Economic Forum is not your friend unless you’re close to a billionaire or a president James Pascual Farmers Forum Canada was back at the Wor... Read more
ONTARIO — The vast majority of rural Canadians are worried about the healthcare system, and to an even greater degree than other parts of the country,... Read more
Farmers at much higher risk of suicide Beware of chronic stress, heavy workload, psychotherapist warns Patrick Meagher Farmers Forum A Western Ontario... Read more
Maynard van der Galien Renfrew County Back in September I asked an acquaintance, who lives in the country but doesn’t farm, if they had the usual numb... Read more
SIMCOE COUNTY — Everyone who handles, conditions, and stores grain knows that there are more than a few challenges in the business ... Read more
WALLACETOWN — At age 20 and fresh out of Ridgetown College, where he studied agriculture, Garrett Dieleman was one of many up-and-coming farmers in th... Read more
Patrick Meagher Editor Last year was a year of lows. We went from having little confidence in our leaders and experts to having even less. We don’t tr... Read more
MOREWOOD — Glenn Smirle hasn’t looked back since trading in his Holsteins for honeybees six years ago. Read more
John Tierney Fraser Institute There have been worse plagues than COVID, but none has ever done so much damage to the world’s scientific institutions.... Read more
There’s still time to enter this year’s Farmers Forum fabulous photo contest. Read more
OTTAWA — Farmers Forum staff found kids, hugs, dogs, donuts and friendly truckers during the heyday of the Freedom Convoy in downtown Ottawa. Read more
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his ministers have been saying for months that they have been following the science and the advice of their... Read more
Animal police take man’s cows, charge him $375,000 for housing them elsewhere; Tribunal slashes fee, says cows were not in distress but the animal pol... Read more
CANADA — Canada's dairy farmers are planning to transform much of their cow manure into green energy as a key part of the industry's pledge to be 'net... Read more
“Unceded territory” terminology is being used flippantly — a native land claim will not take away your farm, historian says Read more
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