MOUNTAIN — Twenty-nine beef cattle died instantly as they clustered beneath a large oak tree that got struck by lightning, south of Ottawa. Read more

Nelson Zandbergen Farmers Forum HALLVILLE — Over 1,000 acres of cropland was heavily damaged July 20 by a severe thunder and hail storm that shredded corn plants and stripped the leaves from... Read more

Automobiles, stretchers, wheel chairs, hot-dog and souvenir stands clogged the main street. The world beat a path to the village of Williamsburg, between Winchester and Morrisburg ... Read more

Angela Dorie Backroads According to Statistics Canada, only 39 per cent of Canadian farms have a computer for farm use. Of those farmers with a computer, only 30 per cent use it for farm boo... Read more

Steve Kell’s Market Minute Outside of COVID-19, the headlining news is the economic recovery and rapidly rising prices on things like homes, vehicles, and building materials, as low in... Read more

Farms specializing in hay for sale and export haven’t seen the same price surge affecting grain commodities. Rather, they’ve been commanding strong hay prices for quite a period of time alre... Read more

OTTAWA — Finance officials are in for a likely grilling at the House of Commons' Finance Committee this Tuesday, following the department's delay of a new law easing the tax penalty for the... Read more

Nelson Zandbergen Farmers Forum NORTH STORMONT — Developers of the Nation Rise Wind Farm have received final approval to sell power into the grid, just as they’ve offloaded a majority stake... Read more

Nelson Zandbergen Farmers Forum TORONTO — The Royal Agricultural Winter Fair has been iced for a second consecutive year because of pandemic uncertainty in Ontario. The board of the organiza... Read more

Eighty-four-year-old Lambton Shores resident Dona Stewardson is the first woman inducted into the Lambton Agricultural Hall of Fame after a lifetime of prominence in the agriculture industry... Read more

Farmers Forum features six top Western Ontario graduates of 2021 Read more

Bruce Mode is the 5th generation to run Vankleek Hill’s Bonnie Brae Farms that this year celebrates 200 years. The farm, known today for its history of Ayshire and Holstein genetics, dates b... Read more

BRIGHT — Cheryl Haskett says the idea of goat’s milk sounds unappealing to many but her farm’s goat’s milk ice cream changes the minds of most. Read more

IROQUOIS — Here’s the scoop: Ice cream is the latest treat to flow out of the Biemond family’s on-farm dairy plant in the Municipality of South Dundas, though you’ll have to visit the operat... Read more

ONTARIO — Ontario’s proposed ban on raising wild boar threatens to chop the revenues of a small number of farmers supplying this specialty meat to markets and restaurants. Read more

Joseph Coppolino Farmers Forum When the province shut down last year to combat COVID-19 it seemed that almost overnight demand for Ontario’s goat milk began to dry up. “Between April and May... Read more

CHESTERVILLE — Byers Farm Equipment is augering in a new era — as is the woman who has been at the helm for the last 43 years. Former proprietor Lezlee Byers officially became an employee at... Read more

Nelson Zandbergen Farmers Forum OTTAWA — Grain-drying operations are highly unlikely to get their reprieve from the Trudeau government’s carbon tax. That chance went up in smoke when a priva... Read more

LINDSAY — Lack of information from the Ford government about the nature of pandemic restrictions this fall  — if any — is getting the blame for the cancellation of the 2021 International Plo... Read more

The Road Less Gravelled Denis Grignon My fourth column would seem to be the ideal time to focus on a topic that was inspired by its namesake. I believe this because we’ve now been through so... Read more

In this 1956 photo Doug Jarvis poses in the Jarvis and Shaver general store in the village of Aultsville. These were the last days of the village store and the entire village. Land along the... Read more

OTTAWA — A long-awaited tax change applauded by farm and small business groups has been passed by the Canadian Senate. Read more

120-day ban gives township time to decide what to do Read more

For the fifth year in a row, volunteers at the Ottawa Valley Seed Growers Association are proud to offer up to three $2,500 scholarships. Youth of Eastern Ontario and Western Quebec planning... Read more

ONTARIO — The vegans are coming, the vegans are coming ... and they are spurring demand for plant-based foodstuffs that challenge definitions steeped in traditional animal-based agriculture. Read more

KITCHENER — A protein-rich food with exotic origins is providing a new market for Ontario’s soybean growers. It’s called tempeh and it has been a staple food in Indonesia for centuries. Read more

Hank Daniszewski Farmers Forum Rural residents appear to be fending off a wave of ATVs and other trespassers on farmlands during the pandemic. Derek Rogers, media spokesperson for the OPP We... Read more

TAVISTOCK — Construction of new barns and agricultural buildings is taking a beating due to a rapid increase in lumber and other supplies. Soft lumber has increased about 300 per cent from o... Read more

Spike in house prices pressures municipalities to eye the farm tax rate ONTARIO — Should trends continue, rapidly soaring house prices will end up shifting more of the annual property-tax bu... Read more

Ed Hand Farmers Forum Can you make pure honey without honeybees? The golden nectar of the honeybee is touted as a superfood for your diet. It reduces antioxidants and triglycerides which can... Read more

Ontario Liberal government caved to environmentalists, while Health Canada now says neonics should not be banned Canada’s federal pesticide regulator last month completed a 180 degree revers... Read more

Health Canada reverses ban but chemical companies and farmers have moved on Read more

CHESTERVILLE — Tom and Betty Henderson stopped milking cows to go into the slaughterhouse business, in the process turning Tom Henderson Meats & Abattoir Inc. into the biggest provincial... Read more