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
TORONTO — The Ford government has pulled the plug on a controversial proposal that would have permitted some farmers to convert some of their prime agricultural land into housing lots. Read more
CHATHAM-KENT — Southwestern Ontario saw overnight freezing temperatures on at least two nights in late May. Major grain and oilseed commodity crops were mostly unscathed by Jack Frost, but some tender fruits and tomato plants were not. Read more
OTTAWA — There are 48 Ontario farms of 5,000 acres or more in size, according to the 2021 Canadian Census. Thirty-three of those farms are in southwestern Ontario. Read more
Angela Dorie Farmers Forum CORNWALL — Our phone rang for the fourth time that Sunday afternoon, the same unknown number. Husband working the land, I answered, knowing it would be the same as the other three. “Your cows on the 4th have no water!”... Read more
The first Food Day Canada will be celebrated on August 5. But is it a day of celebration? Some nationally recognized days are for celebrating. Others are for honouring or mourning. Christmas is celebrated. Easter is first mourned (the brutal exe... Read more
May 31 (Reuters) – A merger of U.S. grains merchant Bunge Ltd (BG.N) with rival Viterra would grow the combined entity’s businesses in the U.S., Brazil and Australia and may raise competition concerns in parts of Canada and Argentina... Read more
Nelson Zandbergen Farmers Forum PORT HOPE — The co-owner of an Eastern Ontario grain-drying operation is fuming after she alerted natural-gas supplier Enbridge of billing discrepancies and was retroactively billed $254,000 in a metering mess dat... Read more
Nelson Zandbergen Farmers Forum CHATHAM-KENT — Drones are dropping seed and fertilizer onto some Ontario farm fields this season. It’s a niche market that keeps contractor Adrian Rivard busy enough — until the day that regulators fully unleash t... Read more
Poultry production and total sales increased in 2022 due to increased demand and product prices. However, increases in feed grain prices and the avian influenza outbreak increased production costs. In 2022, total sales of poultry increased by 14... Read more
Farmers Forum staff INKERMAN — Move over olive oil: Canadian-owned soybean company Sevita International has developed and released this country’s first non-genetically modified soybean variety high in omega-9 fatty acid — also known as oleic aci... Read more
MOLINE, Illinois — Deere & Company reported net income of $2.860 billion for the second quarter ended April 30, 2023, or $9.65 per share, compared with net income of $2.098 billion, or $6.81 per share, for the quarter ended May 1, 2022. For... Read more
TORONTO — Hundreds of inspectors across the province will soon be visiting manufacturing operations and farms to ensure that they are in compliance with the Occupational Health and Safety Act. The safety campaign began May 1 and will last until... Read more
OTTAWA — The Senate recently debated a farmer-promoted bill to exempt grain-drying and barn-heating from the federal carbon tax. But the bill is getting push-back from a British Columbia senator appointed by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Senato... Read more
ONTARIO — Black-legged tick territory appears largely unchanged in Ontario this year, based on the latest information from the province, although the blood-sucking species has turned up in one new corner of Eastern Ontario. Public... Read more
OTTAWA — The federal carbon tax jumped another 30% in April ... for buyers of natural gas, which includes for barn heating and grain drying, that translates into a carbon-tax burden of 12.4 cents per cubic metre — up from 9.79 cents last year. Read more
A 19-hour trip in an electric transport truck would take 69 hours — including 50 hours for recharging ... Read more
The spring of 2023 has been a rough ride down for farmers watching grain prices and waiting for an opportunity to make sales. Read more
OTTAWA — Realized net income for Canadian farmers fell 9.5% to $12.5 billion in 2022 as growth in expenses outpaced the rise in farm cash receipts, according to data recently released by Statistics Canada. The decrease in 2022 followed a 50.8% g... Read more
OTTAWA, May 25 (Reuters) – Canadian beef exporters will have full access to the Taiwanese market in a few weeks, a Canadian government spokesperson said on Thursday, after the countries’ top trade officials met at the Asia Pacific Ec... Read more
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency takes action to address forever chemicals in the environment OTTAWA — In keeping with its mandate to protect the health and safety of Canadians and the environment, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (C... Read more
DRUMMONDVILLED – To help agricultural producers make their operations more sustainable, the Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food, Marie-Claude Bibeau, announced that a new intake of the Agricultural Clean Technology (ACT) Program – Adoption Str... Read more
GUELPH — The National Farmers Union – Ontario (NFU-O), Ontario Federation of Agriculture (OFA), and the Christian Farmers Federation of Ontario (CFFO), along with numerous commodity and agricultural organizations are united in their opposition t... Read more
