Dan Needles Farmer Thinking My vet doesn’t do dogs. He knows all about dogs after seven years at the vet college and a brief stint interning in an urban clinic, but when he opened a large an... Read more
One of the good things about winter and cold days and nights, is enjoying some of the favourite traditional foods we grew up with and trying new ones. Many of the popular foods we eat on occ... Read more
Steve Kell’s Market Minute The key variable which drives our grain prices each winter is South American weather. However, now that it’s March and we’re deep into harvest in the southern hemi... Read more
I recently wrote a letter to our local MPP of Stormont, Dundas and South Glengarry, Conservative member Jim McDonell, expressing my concerns over the continued restrictions, vaccine passport... Read more
Patrick Meagher Editor The three-week Freedom Convoy and protest could have been avoided if Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had agreed to meet with the truckers and simply acknowledge t... Read more
After the short-lived Emergencies Act came to the rescue police used force – sometimes tear gas, sticks to the face, the end of a rifle and horses – to move the truckers out of Ottawa and se... Read more
Dan Needles Farmer Thinking Everywhere a person turns these days someone has pointed advice for him about how to behave: his driving, his shopping habits, his telephone manner, his respect f... Read more
Dr. Robert Tremblay Veterinarian As another step in the long path of creating a new version of the Code of Practice for the Care and Handling of Dairy Cattle, the draft Code was released for... Read more
Disconnect, learn to say no. Don’t buy on credit. Ask yourself: “Do I really need it?” Maynard van der Galien Renfrew County I try to live a simple life and I don’t sway easily. I never fall... Read more
Steve Kell’s Market Minute One of the major forces that drives the grain markets through the late winter and early spring is speculation over how many acres of each crop are expected t... Read more
To quote a book by Pope John Paul ll, We are crossing the threshold of hope. But we are not going in the direction he intended. Read more
The great Canadian truck convoy flooded Ottawa with several thousand trucks and tens of thousands of supporters on its first day in the city. It had raised more than $10 million on a Gofundm... Read more
Dan Needles Farmer Thinking The guys in our driveshed coffee club have announced that we are now in the ‘storm before the calm’ and have decided they will talk about almost any... Read more
Postmedia correspondent Jim Algie is misleading when he refers to the Ford government’s 2019 cancellation of green energy contracts, which he terms an “obsessive anti-climate” position. In f... Read more
The new round of restaurant and school closures in Ontario suggests to me that Covid injections and boosters have missed the mark and have proven to be ineffective in stamping out the pandem... Read more
I enjoy walking through old-growth forest and seeing towering trees. A friend and I walked through the 1.6-kilometre trail of protected old-growth forest at Shaw Woods near Eganville one mor... Read more
It has come to our attention that the Agricultural Research Institute of Ontario (ARIO) is considering the transfer of the former Kemptville College farm property from the Ministry of Agricu... Read more
Dr. Robert Tremblay Veterinarian In 2005, a researcher at Guelph investigated injuries to cows in over 300 tie-stall barns in Ontario. She looked at barn-related injuries that most people re... Read more
2022 promises to be another really interesting year in the grain markets. In particular, Ontario’s winter wheat crop has all of the makings for a turbulent price cycle in the months ahead. Read more
The week before Christmas there were people terrified of the Omicron coronavirus based on a worldwide death count of 10. There were also people who wanted to contract this weaker virus to ob... Read more
Look at the economy if you want to measure the freedom and happiness of a people. Countries that allow the most freedoms, also have the most innovation, motivation and are happiest. Read more
Prices on everything are rising ... when you can find what you need to buy that is. House prices rise, food, energy, fuel, vehicles, clothes, entertainment, travel. Nothing is unaffected … e... Read more
I have a bone to pick with dog owners. Why am I seeing drivers with a dog on their lap as they’re driving? Read more
This whole past year has given us a steady diet of bad news about supply chain issues, with hungry factories, tight inventories, shipping bottlenecks, resource shortages and thousands of peo... Read more
Patrick Meagher Farmers Forum analysis The Liberal government has set a new goal of reducing carbon dioxide emissions by 40 per cent below 2005 levels and wants to do that by 2030. That’s a... Read more
There was little to cheer about after the federal election. It was the lowest percentage voter turn out in the country’s history and all we did was return the Liberals to power with 860,000... Read more
I have a friend who moved out of the city with his wife 30 years ago to pursue a career as an editor and a shepherd on a small farm near Peterborough. Read more
I have a friend who moved out of the city with his wife 30 years ago to pursue a career as an editor and a shepherd on a small farm near Peterborough. Read more
Robert Murphy, Fraser Institute — During the election, Prime Minister Trudeau ran as a bold leader in the fight against climate change. Yet even if we agree that the voters have given Trudea... Read more
Despite the warnings about mental health in agricultural publications, I thought we were unaffected. Read more
Although my focus has been on the infectious diseases of cattle, it is difficult for me not to pay attention to what is happening with infectious diseases in other species, too ... Read more
Steve Kell’s Market Minute One of the most encouraging things to develop out of the summer of 2021 is our potentially record-breaking crop size. Ontario has already harvested its bigge... Read more
Angela Dorie Backroads For the past 21 months, since COVID-19 was first recognized, it seems the world has not only become more fearful, and more threatening but also far, far crazier. Proba... Read more
Just reading in this newspaper about teenage drivers heading out on the road without licenses because the province can’t deal with the enormous backlog in testing created by the pandemic. Read more
Steve Kell Market Minute The Ontario wheat harvest of 2021 has turned out to be a frustrating and perplexing experience for a great number of wheat producers as they have been forced to lear... Read more
Dan Needles Farmer Thinking Just reading the reports in the last issue of a tractor theft nearby where thieves made off with a $100,000 John Deere loader tractor. In some ways it seemed that... Read more
As they navigate a second growing season in the midst of a global pandemic, farmers will soon be left on their own by the Canadian government to shoulder escalating production costs stemming... Read more
As they navigate a second growing season in the midst of a global pandemic, farmers will soon be left on their own by the Canadian government to shoulder escalating production costs stemming... Read more
For many years I helped man our county federation of agriculture display booth at our county plowing match events. I always enjoyed meeting and chatting with people of all ages. It’s been tw... Read more
This could be running the risk of having too much on selective dry cow therapy (SDCT) but there seems to be lots of new information. The latest is also from the Netherlands. It has some find... Read more
Did you ever think you’d witness something as bumbling and inept as what we’ve been put through by our federal and provincial government leaders during this pandemic? Read more
Dr. Robert Tremblay Veterinarian This could be running the risk of having too much on selective dry cow therapy (SDCT) but there seems to be lots of new information. The latest is also from... Read more
Did you ever think you’d witness something as bumbling and inept as what we’ve been put through by our federal and provincial government leaders during this pandemic? Read more
Angela Dorie Backroads Insurance has long been one of those “hate it but need it” necessities of life. Those who sell it are often questioned for their sales tactics and use of the fear and... Read more
There are no arguments, scientific or otherwise, that will ever convince a raw milk enthusiast that the practice is dangerous. My own mother-in-law scoffed at the notion her milk cow posed a... Read more
As they navigate a second growing season in the midst of a global pandemic, farmers will soon be left on their own by the Canadian government to shoulder escalating production costs stemming... Read more
One of the things that we can have great confidence in as we watch the grain markets unfold each year is that somebody is having a weather problem some place in North America, and the market... Read more
Across the world, politicians are now promising climate policies costing tens of trillions of dollars — money we don’t have and resources that are desperately needed elsewhere. Yet, climate... Read more
Across the world, politicians are now promising climate policies costing tens of trillions of dollars — money we don’t have and resources that are desperately needed elsewhere. Yet, climate... Read more
Imagine a quiet street lined with houses. Let’s call it Ontario Street. Now let’s imagine that one man decides that he is going to drive several hundred kilometres from his home to Ontario S... Read more
