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
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 WOLFE ISLAND — Wolfe Island is 30,000-acres of farmland and rocky shoreline squatting in the middle... Read more
By Ed Hand ALEXANDRIA — Clear cutting is dividing the residents of North Glengarry as the township grapples with its draft bylaw. “I haven’t navigated such a touchy subject since I’ve been on council,” says deputy mayor Carma Williams. She exp... Read more
OTTAWA — So far, 9,682 Canadian dairy farmers have registered for Dairy Direct Payment Program compensation this year, federal Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food Marie-Claude Bibeau announced today. They’re in line to receive a combine... Read more
WOODSTOCK — The Ontario government is spending $10 million to allow more farmers and agri-food operators to purchase personal protective equipment, enhance cleaning and disinfection and redesign workstations to better protect workers. Under the... Read more
KITCHENER — The federal government is injecting up to $12.2 million into 42 Ontario meat processing companies to bolster worker safety measures and to make facility improvements that will boost production capacity. The dollars come as the COVID-... Read more
By Nelson Zandbergen OTTAWA — Lest an election snuff out the effort, this minority parliament may yet produce a welcome respite from the controversial carbon tax now charged on propane and natural gas consumed by grain dryers. Penned by Philip L... Read more
Vertical indoor factory herb farming is here and some traditional farmers don’t like it By Hank Daniszewski and Nelson Zandbergen GUELPH – A huge warehouse bathed in pink LED light and filled with 10-metre high stacks of trays is maintained larg... Read more
CRAMAHE TOWNSHIP — A mobile generator worth $30,000 was stolen from a Durham Street South construction site east of the town of Colborne. The building contractor noticed the theft after arriving at work on the morning of March 31. Northumberlan... Read more
GUELPH-ERAMOSA — A motorist was arrested in Guelph-Eramosa Township after he was spotted driving a red passenger vehicle “aggressively” through a farm field, damaging the property in the process. The involved vehicle initially travelled “at a hi... Read more
By Patrick Meagher KINGSTON — An animal activist, who filmed himself on at least three Ontario mink farms, is now facing the possibility of a fine or even jail time. Malcolm Klimowicz snuck onto three minks farms in 2017; at Oshawa, Collingwood... Read more
By Nelson Zandbergen ONTARIO — If 2020 was difficult for Ontario vegetable and fruit growers, 2021 is shaping up to be as bad or worse as the federal government has had time to throw up even more pandemic-related rules on the sector’s crucial fo... Read more
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Nelson Zandbergen Farmers Forum PAKENHAM — Eighty-seven beef cattle boarded a transport truck here but never made it to market as planned March 15. A little more than two kilometres into the trip, the vehicle rolled onto its side when the driver... Read more
By Nelson ZandbergenFarmers Forum FINCH — The operators of a 29-turbine wind project in North Stormont are offering area residents funding for window coverings to avoid flicker shadow. They will also stop the turbine blades at times to make it s... Read more
By Patrick Meagher WINCHESTER — A retired Winchester-area dairy farmer was hospitalized after testing positive for COVID-19, amidst an outbreak of positive cases in farm country. While the vast majority of people who test positive to COVID-19 ha... Read more
By Patrick Meagher Farmers Forum ST. ANDREW’S WEST — Father Louis Groetelaars found his own way around COVID restrictions. He got himself a hay wagon, a propane-fuelled heater, plywood, plexiglass, an FM radio transmitter and in just over a week... Read more
HURON EAST — Having crashed his own ride, an allegedly drunken motorist went on an attempted car-jacking rampage before smashing a farm tractor into a tree as the owner clung to the machine. Huron County OPP say they ultimately tasered the... Read more
Old barns are usually considered the humblest of buildings but a new Ontario group is focused on preserving them as icons of agriculture heritage. Ontario Barn Preservation is a non-profit volunteer group made up of farmers, architects, historia... Read more
Old barns are usually considered the humblest of buildings but a new Ontario group is focused on preserving them as icons of agriculture heritage. Ontario Barn Preservation is a non-profit volunteer group made up of farmers, architects, historia... Read more
Farmers and the federal government have, historically, been at loggerheads over the issue of climate change mitigation. Farmers care about the environment but government action has typically been with the stick, not the carrot. There’s been litt... Read more
