BRANTFORD — Two Quebec cows set four new national production records in their age categories in 2022. Read more
OTTAWA — As it attempts to wrestle down domestic inflation stoked in part by Trudeau government policies, the Bank of Canada boosted its key overnight lending rate another quarter point to 4... Read more
TORONTO — The Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs has come out with a new fact sheet on the province’s farm-trespassing law — including prominently noted exemptions grant... Read more
Farmers Forum staff TORONTO — The Dairy Farmers of Ontario board recently chose Elmwood-area producer Mark Hamel as their new vice-chair — filling the executive position vacated when Nick T... Read more
OTTAWA — National farm cash receipts reached a record high $94.5 billion in 2022, an increase of 14.1 % over 2021, according to the latest Farm Credit Canada estimate. The federal farm-lend... Read more
Farmers Forum staff GUELPH — Organic food is no longer the fringe market it was in 1982 when the Guelph Organic Conference first took place. Fast forward to 2023, and the global organics mar... Read more
GUELPH — Ontario farmers are again invited to participate in an annual farmland value and rental-rate survey conducted by the University of Guelph. Since 2016, Dr. Brady Deaton has overseen... Read more
Farmers Forum staff OTTAWA — The continued rise in consumer prices, including food, remains “too high for comfort,” says the Conference Board of Canada, which suggests the Bank of Canada may... Read more
Farmers Forum staff TORONTO — The Dairy Farmers of Ontario conferred its first-ever Lifetime Achievement Award on Glen McNeil of Heather Holme Holsteins in Goderich, during the organization’... Read more
GUELPH — Knowledge is power, and Ontario dairy farmers will soon be empowered to breed low-methane cattle to gradually cut their herd’s emissions of the greenhouse gas 20 to 30 % by 2050, ac... Read more
