As of September 28 at 4 p.m., Eastern Ontario had at least 7,522 cases of COVID-19 and at least 568 deaths. By September 25 at 4 p.m., Eastern Ontario had at least 7,265 cases of COVID-19 and at least 566 deaths. As of September 23 a... Read more
By Tom Collins INDIAN RIVER — To handle COVID-19 concerns, managers are doing everything from postponing sales, to switching to online only, to considering tag sales or a hybrid of all three. Billy Elmhirst, of Indian River Cattle Company, says... Read more
By Connor LynchOTTAWA — For years, when livestock farmers needed certain antibiotics, they could just pop down to the feed store and pick some up. That changed in 2018 when Health Canada locked feed stores out of the business and kicked those ov... Read more
By Tom Van DusenOXFORD STATION – She’s a federal public servant, he’s an Ottawa software designer. Marie Saverimuttu and Richard Deslandes share much in common… but not in their day jobs. Where the couple really comes together is along County Ro... Read more
By Tom Van DusenOXFORD STATION – She’s a federal public servant, he’s an Ottawa software designer. Marie Saverimuttu and Richard Deslandes share much in common… but not in their day jobs. Where the couple really comes together is along County Ro... Read more
As of September 28 at 4 p.m., Western Ontario had at least 11,761 cases of COVID-19 and there had been at least 513 deaths associated with it. By September 25 at 4 p.m., Western Ontario had at least 11,535 cases of COVID-19 and there had b... Read more
They say there’s no such thing as a free lunch, but there is such a thing as free farmland, so long as you’re willing to go up north to get it. Giving away land is nothing new in rural Canada, and many towns have offered free or heavily discount... Read more
MISSISSAUGA — Oxford County is still the dairy capital of Ontario, according to the latest numbers from Dairy Farmers of Ontario. By July of this year, the county’s 306 producers had cranked out a whopping 381 million litres of milk. Perth Count... Read more
Electricity bills have increased more than 50 per cent since 2001 in Ontario, according to a Fraser Institute report. The increase was largely due to the Green Energy Act of 2009 which enforced the use of renewable energy wind turbines and solar... Read more
MISSISSAUGA — Oxford County is still the dairy capital of Ontario, according to the latest numbers from Dairy Farmers of Ontario. By July of this year, the county’s 306 producers had cranked out a whopping 381 million litres of milk. Perth Count... Read more
By Connor LynchHEARST — Going north to farm can be a daunting proposition but a promising one, given Northern Ontario’s comparatively inexpensive and plentiful land. But finding a farm or some acres to buy or rent can be tricky.The Northern East... Read more
By Connor LynchGUELPH — Most farmers would probably not assume that their personal information is subject to freedom of information requests. They got a rude awakening in July, when an anonymous person made a freedom of information request for t... Read more
Canadian tractor sales jumped 42.1 per cent this July compared to July 2019, according to an Association of Equipment Manufacturers’ report. However, this increase is due to the sales decrease in the previous months during COVID-19 shut downs, F... Read more
By Connor LynchHEARST — Going north to farm can be a daunting proposition but a promising one, given Northern Ontario’s comparatively inexpensive and plentiful land. But finding a farm or some acres to buy or rent can be tricky.The Northern East... Read more
By Connor LynchGUELPH — Most farmers would probably not assume that their personal information is subject to freedom of information requests. They got a rude awakening in July, when an anonymous person made a freedom of information request for t... Read more
By Connor LynchTORONTO — Hot and dry has been the story of Ontario’s growing season, and will be the harvest story as well, said Environment Canada senior climatologist David Phillips. Summer can be a turbulent season, weatherwise, with the mont... Read more
So far, up to 25 % of restaurants in the country have now closed for the season and perhaps for good. The Canadian Chamber of Commerce expects 60 % of restaurants to close permanently by November. Even if such a forecast may be a little excessiv... Read more
Canadian agriculture has come through COVID-19 and the associated lockdowns pretty well, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.Despite “images of dumped milk and shuttered restaurants dominated media attention industry concerns about w... Read more
On March 11, when the WHO proclaimed that COVID-19 was a pandemic, I was working in Nova Scotia. We had planned to work with veterinary clinics to run seminars for dairy farmers all week. We still had two days left. We wondered if we should go a... Read more
Farm safety is a ubiquitous topic these days. But how much good has all the talk and awareness done? According to a study to be published in the medical journal Preventive Medicine, next month, the short answer is: Not much. According to 30 year... Read more
By Connor LynchTORONTO — Hot and dry has been the story of Ontario’s growing season, and will be the harvest story as well, said Environment Canada senior climatologist David Phillips. Summer can be a turbulent season, weatherwise, with the mont... Read more
KEMPTVILLE — The former Kemptville agricultural college will be home to a 235-bed prison. The prison is to be built on about 182 acres owned by the province and on the site of what was the former college dairy barn and A.M. Barr show arena. Call... Read more
Canadian agriculture has come through COVID-19 and the associated lockdowns pretty well, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.Despite “images of dumped milk and shuttered restaurants dominated media attention industry concerns about w... Read more
Since it’s more dangerous for a healthy child to ride a bicycle to school than it is to be in school in this pandemic, healthy children can go to school.But you might think the fires of hell had been unleashed if you got your cues from teachers’... Read more
Many people tell me that we really shouldn’t be sending our kids back to school. I have a lot of educators and health care types in my family and they warn darkly that the virus is bound to come roaring back this fall and force a second lockdown... Read more
