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By Tom Collins FINCH — About 75,000 people are expected to attend the 2015 International Plowing Match and Rural Expo (IPM) held near Finch, a small Eastern Ontario hamlet with just under 50... Read more
By Brandy Harrison STITTSVILLE — Jason Gray is a full-time farm manager logging 60 to 70 hours per week and overseeing an army of more than 600 volunteers to plant, weed, and harvest veggies... Read more
LINDSAY — James Barker uses long days on the farm to sing and write songs. “Especially on the tractor, sitting there for 10 hours and you’re starting to get a little bit bored,”... Read more
I don’t think there is anyone out there that likes applesauce as much as I do. I love the stuff and I consider myself a life-long connoisseur. Now I’m not referring to the store-bought varie... Read more
The latest edition of the Williamstown Fair has ended. And, like every year in its 204 years, if there are two things it is good for, it is meeting up with people you haven’t seen for awhile... Read more
TORONTO — A recent U.S. forecast predicting a 36 per cent farm income slide this year may have farmers a bit antsy, but while a downturn is likely, Canadian farmers may be in for more of a r... Read more
By Tom Collins LYN — Burnbrae Farms officials say it can meet the target of having all the eggs it sells to McDonald’s Restaurants supplied by free-run chickens within the next 10 years. McD... Read more
TOOWOOMBA, AUSTRALIA — The auctioneer at Elders Livestock Market in Toowoomba, not far from Australia’s Gold Coast, doesn’t get to sit comfortably in an auction stand as animals are chased a... Read more
On Aug, 27, I was called to advise on a problem with calf health on a larger dairy farm. The farm generally has had good health in the replacements. They start calves in individual pens for... Read more
By Brandy Harrison TEESWATER — When his parents weren’t quite ready to hand over the reins to their Teeswater barn, 22-year-old Ron Groen packed up and moved east to buy a five-year adve... Read more
By Tom Collins BELLEVILLE — A June 28 dairy barn blaze north of Belleville caused $1 million in damage and killed 32 cows, half of the farm’s unregistered Holstein herd. The fire at Sullivan... Read more
By Brandy Harrison STRATHROY — Andrew Campbell is no longer anxiously scanning the horizon for dark clouds — the Strathroy dairy farmer’s gaze is glued to no less than three weather apps on... Read more
By Brandy Harrison SPENCERVILLE — Emma Farlinger still battles pre-show jitters, but the moment the 18-year-old steps foot in the ring, the crowd fades away. “You have to psych yoursel... Read more
By Tom Collins PRESCOTT-RUSSELL — The Ontario Landowners Association (OLA) said legislation allowing wind turbines without a municipality’s approval is “bogus.” OLA president Tom... Read more
By Tom Collins SASKATCHEWAN — There’s a story making the rounds in Saskatchewan that farmers are so desperate for help that when one lad’s new girlfriend wanted to learn to drive a tractor,... Read more
By Brandy Harrison MAXVILLE — Pierre Boulet knows how to pick a winner. The Quebec dairy farmer put just four cows in the ring — including one he’d had only a few short months — but walked a... Read more
By Tom Collins OTTAWA — The federal agriculture minister says Ontario’s neonicotinoid regulations are not based on science. Ontario launched its neonic-treated seed regulations because it sa... Read more
By Brandy Harrison MANOTICK — When the LED lights at SunTech Greenhouses Ltd. flickered on for the first time last January, the bright fuchsia glow in the dead of night had neighbours reachi... Read more
OTTAWA — Bee death incident numbers from Health Canada’s Pest Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA) are proving that methods undertaken by farmers are having a positive impact on bee health, s... Read more
TORONTO — The province received 23,145 public comments on its proposal to ban neonicotinoid seeds during its 45-day period in the spring. While 90 per cent of those comments favouring the ba... Read more
By Tom Collins GUELPH — The province’s new regulations to drastically reduce a popular insecticide-treated seed are so unworkable to frustrated grain farmers that they are taking the provinc... Read more
By Tom Collins The Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change says that a farm caught using neonics illegally could be fined up to $20,000 per day for a first offence and $50,000 for a s... Read more
By Brandy Harrison OTTAWA — Hundreds of field trials haven’t settled the debate over the yield impact of neonicotinoid-treated seeds. But one thing is sure: going without neonics won’t affec... Read more
By James Pascual TORONTO — Long-time Farm and Country newspaper publisher, editor and journalist, John Phillips, died in Toronto on May 27. He was 88. The charismatic and outspoken publisher... Read more
By Tom Collins KENNILWORTH — A 17-year-old dairy farmer’s daughter has come up with an idea on how to reduce disease in the barn, nabbing a $750 gift card in the process. Charlene Elliott, w... Read more
By Tom Collins LONDON — Two protests by the Grain Farmers of Ontario at Liberal MPPs’ offices are just the beginning, said the GFO’s chair. Almost 50 farmers showed up at MPP and deputy prem... Read more
By Brandy Harrison STRATFORD — Environmental groups have the ear of policy wonks and urban voters and are driving Ontario agriculture policy, says a Stratford-based crop advisor. “Envi... Read more
BLOOMFIELD — Philip Prinzen says he has no idea why he routinely finishes near the top of the CanWest DHI BCA (breed class average) listings, but suspects it may have something to do with fe... Read more
WILLIAMSTOWN — It wasn’t long ago that the MacLachlan family faced a decision: get a new barn or get out of milking. They were milking 35 cows in a 100-year-old, dark and low-ceiling tie-sta... Read more
By Brandy Harrison EMBRUN — Pierre Pasquier’s cows took to robots in no time, hitting nearly three milkings per day by the two-week mark and padding the bulk tank with an extra four litres p... Read more
By Brandy Harrison WOOLER — A whirlwind three-week courtship after they first laid eyes on each other, Ryan and Christie Prins were engaged and hatching a plan to pool their savings and set... Read more
KEMPTVILLE — It would likely seem fitting to many Eastern Ontario farmers that the last Kemptville College graduation ceremony would include a swipe at the government that allowed its closur... Read more
By Patrick Meagher KEMPTVILLE — Kemptville College’s last agricultural diploma graduating class felt the bitter sweetness of completing a year to remember. They are the widow graduates with... Read more
By Brandy Harrison MOREWOOD — Used to pushing the envelope on planting, Glenn Smirle got his first 20 acres of grain corn in on April 25 and 26 — one of the first in the field in Eastern Ont... Read more
Ezra Levant reporting for the new website therebel.media (video 5 min. 48 sec) Read more
In world of no quota for sale, this family expands by milking goats Read more
Climatologist challenges global warming Read more
April 2006 was a month to remember. Farmers demonstrated on Parliament Hill with 283 tractors on Wellington Street. Read more
Ag critic Toby Barrett asks the question. Listen to Ag Minister Leal's answers. Read more
Seems like farmers have a bull's eye on their backs, says Grain Farmers of Ontario chairman Mark Brock Read more
Mountain dairy farmers loving 20 per cent production boost, better feet, and lower SCC one year into new sand-bedded barn with robots By Brandy Harris... Read more
He hauled logs with horses, got electricity in 1950, running water in 1960 By Brandy Harrison PERTH John Sheil was itching to buy the family farm in the early 40s, but... Read more
Halloween starts now By Brandy Harrison KITCHENER The Christmas decorations are barely packed away but fear junkie John Snyder is thinking of Halloween. “This is our full-time job... Read more
Six new Master Breeders in Eastern Ontario By Brandy Harrison and Tom Collins GUELPH Sticking with proven, high-production and true-type cow families has earned six Eastern... Read more
