Hank Daniszewski Farmers Forum As Ontario farmers try to harvest a big crop, they continue to struggle to find equipment, parts and supplies as global supply chains are disrupted in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. A shortage of shipping conta... Read more
CANNAMORE — A heavy red tape burden still has Ontario businesses tearing their hair out. Among them is a popular agritourism destination south of Ottawa that estimates its losses at about $20,000 after a bureaucratic water-testing runaround with... Read more
CAMPBELLFORD — Thirty-four consigned Blonde d’Aquitaine cattle went on the block Oct. 23 at the 21st annual ‘Cream of the Crop’ sale, yielding an average $2,514 per head. Read more
CAMPBELLFORD — Thirty-eight animals went on the auction block at the annual Charolais Fall feature sale Oct. 16 at Hoard’s Station. This year’s average winning bid was $5,200, up $954 from last year’s debut sale that drew 37 animals. Fall featur... Read more
GUELPH — “Climate change and the environment” top the priority list for Canada’s next Agricultural Policy Framework, according to this country’s agriculture ministers in a joint communiqué issued after their meeting in Gu... Read more
Steve Kell’s Market Minute One of the most interesting things about the 2021 North American grain crop as harvest wraps up is how astonishingly similar it is to just one year ago. There are some significant differences in crops like hard r... Read more
OTTAWA — Ottawa’s radical plan to put agriculture on a strict fertilizer diet will end up costing Canadian farmers big bucks in lost income. Read more
METCALFE — A mature Morrisburg-area cow with poise placed first overall Oct. 14 as the Eastern Ontario/Western Quebec Championship Holstein Show marked 80 years of judging the best of the breed. Another mature cow from Ashton placed second. Read more
NORTH DUNDAS — Farmers beware when insuring your barn. Be sure the barn is structurally sound or you might not collect on a claim. Read more
As Ontario farmers try to harvest a big crop, they continue to struggle to find equipment, parts and supplies as global supply chains are disrupted in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Read more
SOUTHWESTERN ONTARIO — The soybean harvest didn’t break any speed records in Southwestern Ontario this fall as a significant portion of the crop remained stubbornly untouched by combines as a soggy October turned to November. Read more
This overturned gravity wagon was spotted Nov. 8, at the corner of county roads 31 and 43, outside Winchester. (Bryce Douglas photo). Read more
ONTARIO — The keeping of Eurasian wild boar will be outlawed in Ontario starting Jan. 1. But unhappy producers can apply for a temporary exemption until Dec. 31, 2023. Read more
SOUTHWESTERN ONTARIO — With about half the crop in the bin by the first week of November, southwestern Ontario’s 2021 corn harvest was looking very good, though too early to calculate an overall regional record yield. Read more
The riskiest time for prussic acid poisoning ... Read more
Nelson Zandbergen Farmers Forum SOUTHWESTERN ONTARIO — The soybean harvest didn’t break any speed records in Southwestern Ontario this fall as a significant portion of the crop remained stubbornly untouched by combines as a soggy October turned... Read more
Turkey farmers are reaping the benefits of people staying home during the second pandemic Thanksgiving and cooking their own birds. But big turkeys aren’t the best sellers this year, small turkeys are. Read more
WATERFORD — A Vietnamese ginseng farm worker in Norfolk County was killed after being hit by a piece of farm equipment on September 23 south of Waterford. Van Ngoc Le was working in a field on Lan Anh Ginseng Farm “when a piece of equipment from... Read more
The two leading CASE IH equipment dealers in the province will be combining their businesses to form Equipment Ontario by the end of the year. Read more
Nelson Zandbergen Farmers Forum ALEXANDRIA — The Township of North Glengarry now has a clear-cutting bylaw on the books, first of its kind within the rural counties of Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry. Two or three years in the making, township co... Read more
METCALFE — It was a bittersweet return of the beloved Metcalfe Fair ... Read more
SOUTHWESTERN ONTARIO — With about half the crop in the bin by the first week of November, southwestern Ontario’s 2021 corn harvest was looking very good, though too early to calculate an overall regional record yield. Read more
METCALFE — It was a bittersweet return of the beloved Metcalfe Fair ... Read more
KINGSTON — While overall farm profits spiked during the pandemic, farmers will tell you that the raw numbers don’t tell the full story. Read more
EASTERN ONTARIO — Restaurants Canada estimates there are 38,000 restaurants in the province and at least 10 percent closed down during the pandemic. Read more
SOUTH MOUNTAIN — Call it the little peach tree that could. It had no business sprouting out of a peach pit in the old compost pile ... Read more
ELORA – The provincial government is putting millions of dollars into two projects at Ontario Research Centres in Elora to foster innovation in Ontario’s livestock industry and support economic growth across rural Ontario. With $14.4 million fro... Read more
GREELY – The Therapeutic Riding Association of Ottawa-Carleton Inc. was recently surprised to collect a donation of $20,000 from the Central Canada Exhibition Association, which is disbursing remaining funds to worthy agricultural causes. Since... Read more
3,340 CHUs accumulated between May 1st and first frost of October ... normal is about 3,000 ... Read more
Thanksgiving sales make up a whopping 36 per cent of the Ontario turkey market, says Brian Ricker, a turkey farmer in Dunnville and chair of the Turkey Farmers of Ontario board. Read more
SOUTH MOUNTAIN — Call it the little peach tree that could. It had no business sprouting out of a peach pit in the old compost pile ... Read more
Pamela Vanmeer Special to Farmers Forum TORONTO — The Justice Centre has led a constitutional challenge against Ontario’s vaccine passport mandate in Ontario’s Superior Court of Justice. The legal challenge is brought on behalf of eight Ontario... Read more
