Ontario youth can take advantage of their hard work with scholarships and bursaries from numerous Ontario farm groups. Here is a partial list of some of the scholarships available for Ontario ag students organized by application deadlines. March... Read more
They barely made it and they’re so excited, they’re expanding By Tom Schoch Special to Farmers Forum CHESTERVILLE — A series of unfortunate events, including the abrupt end of my tenure at a bankrupt community newspaper and the arrival of COVID-... Read more
By Nelson Zandbergen FRONTENAC — Add more metaphorical jewels to the crown of Eastern Ontario’s ‘Hay King’ Gary Gordon, who has been winning seed show competitions for 25 years. He has been the champion for- age exhibitor in his native Frontenac... Read more
Nelson Zandbergen BRINSTON — Out of the thousand acres of corn grown annually at Tibben Farms last year, a small and me- ticulously cleaned sample captured the champion shelled corn award at the Ottawa seed and forages show. Family patriarch Ral... Read more
L’ORIGNAL — The Eastern Ontario Agri-Food Network (EOAN) reached a milestone by launching local food portal for Eastern Ontario consisting of an e-commerce platform that will connect member producers and farmers’ markets with consumers and loca... Read more
ONTARIO — The crop of public servants in Ontario earning six figures continues to grow like a freshly fertilized field in the spring. In a harbinger of the season’s arrival, the province in March dropped the annual “sunshine list” reporting the... Read more
ONTARIO — Ontario grain-drying operators are grappling with the compounding dual cost implications of the Supreme Court’s thumbs-up to the federal carbon tax and a recalcitrant Michigan governor’s thumbs down (if not a middle finger) to a critic... Read more
OTTAWA — The Canadian government plans to increase the carbon tax to $170 per tonne by 2030 and, by consequence, kill thousands of jobs, take money from Canadians and decrease Canadian productivity, a Fraser Institute report says. While Canada’s... Read more
RIDGETOWN — The University of Guelph, Ridgetown Campus has launched a new Entrance Scholarship Program to recognize the academic achievement of incoming students and help attract future leaders to the Associate Diplomas in Agriculture, Environme... Read more
EASTERN ONTARIO: Chocolate factory starts from scratch and busy the cocoa bean and the hazelnut While much of Canada’s food and beverage industry has been hit by disruptions caused by the pandemic, the country’s chocolate processors and hazelnu... Read more
Chinese milk plant faces employee complaints, high injury rate, but Chinese communist party companies have a history of breaking laws, China expert says KINGSTON — Following numerous complaints about harsh and dangerous working conditions at a C... Read more
EASTERN ONTARIO — Elon Musk’s internet satellites have just begun to make an impact in rural Eastern Ontario, where individuals are responding to the invitation to become early users of the high-performance Starlink service by Space X. A few ear... Read more
EASTERN ONTARIO — Rogers Communications will erect 300 new towers and upgrade a similar number of structures after winning a contract last month that relies on $152-million in public money to close gaps or “dead zones” in Eastern Ontario’s cell... Read more
The one constant in the world wide grain markets over the past year has been strong Chinese import demand for both grains and oilseeds. We’ve seen weather markets like La Nina drought in South America come and go. We’ve seen a global pandemic ra... Read more
Predictions are perilous but producers bullish on price and some analysts see even higher corn and soybean prices Hank Daniszewski DRESDEN — It’s been a while since Ontario farmers approached planting time with such high hopes of a good return c... Read more
Canadian taxpayers will spend $691 million over the next decade helping to “drive innovation and market development” for the nation’s 4,800 supply-managed chicken, turkey and egg farmers. Federal Minister of Agriculture and Agr... Read more
80 Trinidadian migrant workers make the best of it stranded on a Simcoe-area farm Hank Daniszewski SIMCOE — Their first Canadian winter proved to be a little better than anticipated for about 80 migrant workers stranded at a mixed-crop farm near... Read more
It would require 800 railcars of oil each day to replace it By Steve Kell As Canadians, we enjoy a plentiful and secure supply of petroleum products which allows us the luxury of not really having to think about where those products come from. H... Read more
WEST PERTH — Police are looking for witnesses after a pedestrian was hit by a vehicle that never stopped in the Municipality of West Perth. The passenger side mirror of an unidentified white Sport Utility Vehicle (SUV) struck the person April 9 ... Read more
Patrick Meagher KINGSTON — An animal activist, who filmed himself on at least three Ontario mink farms, has been found not guilty of breaking and entering causing mischief. Malcolm Klimowicz snuck onto three mink farms in 2017; at Oshawa, Colli... Read more
EASTERN ONTARIO — The rise of farmland prices in Central East and Eastern Ontario outpaced the province as a whole last year, according to Farm Credit Canada’s annual report on farmland values. While FCC reports Ontario overall saw a 4.7 per cen... Read more
ONTARIO — Ontario farmland prices increased 4.7 per cent in 2020, according to Farm Credit Canada. But five Southwestern Ontario counties saw no increase in prices. Essex, Lambton, Kent, Elgin and Middlesex counties recorded no farmland price in... Read more
