BRANTFORD — Two Quebec cows set four new national production records in their age categories in 2022. Read more
Farmers at much higher risk of suicide Beware of chronic stress, heavy workload, psychotherapist warns Patrick Meagher Farmers Forum A Western Ontario farmer was under such a heavy burden of... 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 number of house flies, or more or fewer than... Read more
OTTAWA — As it attempts to wrestle down domestic inflation stoked in part by Trudeau government policies, the Bank of Canada boosted its key overnight lending rate another quarter point to 4... 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
TORONTO — The Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs has come out with a new fact sheet on the province’s farm-trespassing law — including prominently noted exemptions grant... 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 the area ... 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 trust them and our leaders and experts hav... Read more
Farmers Forum staff TORONTO — The Dairy Farmers of Ontario board recently chose Elmwood-area producer Mark Hamel as their new vice-chair — filling the executive position vacated when Nick T... 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. In the pre-COVID era, the public health... Read more
OTTAWA — National farm cash receipts reached a record high $94.5 billion in 2022, an increase of 14.1 % over 2021, according to the latest Farm Credit Canada estimate. The federal farm-lend... Read more
Farmers Forum staff GUELPH — Organic food is no longer the fringe market it was in 1982 when the Guelph Organic Conference first took place. Fast forward to 2023, and the global organics mar... Read more
LYNDHURST — In light of the extremely productive, but also very intensive manner of today’s farming, it is also possible to produce food through more of an “ecology management” technique ... Read more
PERTH — Shane Reid was especially delighted at the performance of an American-born Black Angus yearling — Buchanan’s Bruno — in the ring at the Royal Winter Fair in Toronto this past Novembe... Read more
GUELPH — Ontario farmers are again invited to participate in an annual farmland value and rental-rate survey conducted by the University of Guelph. Since 2016, Dr. Brady Deaton has overseen... Read more
Farmers Forum staff OTTAWA — The continued rise in consumer prices, including food, remains “too high for comfort,” says the Conference Board of Canada, which suggests the Bank of Canada may... Read more
Canada needs to keep track of land purchases here, researcher says James Pascual Farmers Forum OTTAWA — The state of Florida plans to ban Chinese nationals from buying farmland and property... Read more
Second round leukosis testing begins University of Guelph’s herd health surveillance project continues in 2023 GUELPH — Milk at all Ontario dairy farms will soon be sampled and tested again... Read more
