NEWS
EASTERN ONTARIO: Despite pandemic, farmland prices up, reports FCC
EASTERN ONTARIO — The rise of farmland prices in Central East and Eastern Ontario outpaced the province as a whole last year, according to Farm Credit... Read more
WESTERN ONTARIO: Province’s farmland prices up 4.7 percent in 2020, Farm Credit Canada report says
ONTARIO — Ontario farmland prices increased 4.7 per cent in 2020, according to Farm Credit Canada. But five Southwestern Ontario counties saw no incre... Read more
Farmers protest draconian lockdowns
Norfolk vegetable growers rally with 250 tractors Nelson Zandbergen NORFOLK — The ramped-up regulatory burden on bringing temporary foreign workers to... Read more
Local farmers blast double whammy: carbon tax and threat to oil pipeline
ONTARIO — Ontario grain-drying operators are grappling with the compounding dual cost implications of the Supreme Court’s thumbs-up to the federal car... Read more
Shadow flicker compensation fund helps North Stormont residents near wind turbines
FINCH — The operators of a 29-turbine wind project in North Stormont are offering area residents funding for window coverings to avoid flicker shadow.... Read more
Watch out for wild pigs
81 sightings in Eastern and Southern Ontario since January 2020 Ontario is taking a stand against a menace that is destroying crops, threaten- ing liv... Read more
Strong prices for lamb but Easter not the price boost it once was
OSGOODE — While last year’s season coincided with “some big dips and dives” in the price of lamb, sheep producer Colleen Acres says this second Easter... Read more
Rise and fall of dairy farming on Wolfe Island
There are now two dairy farmers across the water from Kingston where there were once 139 farms and four humming cheese factories By Connor Lynch WOLF... Read more
North Glengarry to introduce $50 fee per acre of land for clear-cutting
By Ed Hand ALEXANDRIA — Clear cutting is dividing the residents of North Glengarry as the township grapples with its draft bylaw. “I haven’t navigate... Read more
