It’s the third consecutive year that the University of Guelph’s Ontario Veterinary College has ranked fifth worldwide — and first in Canada — for its excellence in veterinary science. The Wo... Read more

Nelson Zandbergen Farmers Forum ROEBUCK — Ford government cabinet minister Steve Clark defended plans for a jail at the former Kemptville College campus and absorbed a potshot or two over hi... Read more

Locals pose in front of the Brinstion post office, southeast of Kemptville, in 1908. Postal service in Canada in 1908 operated under the name The Royal Canadian Mail. It was in this year tha... Read more

Earthworms are getting more credit than they deserve. A recent Irish study found a rapid nutrient transfer from earthworms to plants but it has been wrongly reported that earthworms can repl... Read more

BLYTH — In life, bachelor farmers Cliff and Don Schultz diligently cultivated a Blyth-area cash-cropping and beef farm, as well as an impressive tractor and toy tractor collection. In death,... Read more

CAMBRIDGE — A collection of Cockshutt tractors was sold at auction last month, including a Cockshutt 1555 White Tractor that sold for over $11,000. Read more

VANCOUVER — If governments in Canada want to help seniors who want to continue working, they should remove barriers that discourage them from remaining in the workforce, finds a new study re... Read more

Consumers can now scan QR codes on packaged beef cuts and get all the information they need about the meat’s nutritional value, storage requirements, and cooking tips. Read more

TORONTO — Despite current challenges, two thirds of Canadian farmers are feeling cautiously optimistic about the future, according to an Ipsos Canada poll commissioned by RBC. The RBC Agricu... Read more

Farmers are eager to hire drone servicing companies to spray their fields but are less eager to buy the drones themselves, says a Western Ontario drone company. Read more

DELHI — Pepsico, the makers of Frito-Lay potato-chips, recently sparred with Loblaws over price. For one week there were no potato chips in Loblaws stores, then both sides reached an agreeme... Read more

More than 200 paddling enthusiasts roll down (and into) the river Read more

Ottawa Valley Seed Growers Guest Column The Ottawa Valley Seed Growers Association held its 30th annual prestigious pedigreeds auction online earlier in March. Traditionally an in-person auc... Read more

ONTARIO — Ontario farmers and farm families now have access to unlimited free, professional telephone counselling — amid growing recognition of the mental-health pressures placed on the sect... Read more

ONTARIO — The last two years have been a rollercoaster for Ontario’s agricultural fairs but it appears all have survived the pandemic and are ready to fully re-emerge this year. Ontario Asso... Read more

The beloved 4-H program for ages six to 21 was decimated by a two-year pandemic lockdown. Read more

KINGSTON — Canada Royal Milk’s Kingston plant has tapped into a supply of goat milk from over 120 Ontario and Quebec producers, allowing the Chinese-owned baby-formula maker to fulfill its o... Read more

OTTAWA — A Calgary-based freedom-fighting legal team is working on numerous challenges to the federal government in support of the three-week trucker protest that saw more than 400 trucks an... Read more

More than 400,000 new immigrants each year create new demand. Read more

Marazzo calls Ford out for pandemic mismanagement and draconian plans for the future Read more

When beekeepers put their hives away for the winter, they always expect some losses, but not this many. Read more

Nelson Zandbergen Farmers Forum GUELPH — Two major grain-growing groups are demanding answers from the Trudeau government and relief from fertilizer tariffs imposed in the wake of Russia’s i... Read more

GUELPH — Just about every Ontario county saw 2021 yields well above the 10-year average, based on numbers from crop insurance enrollees, but good fortune didn’t land everywhere. Wet weather... Read more

EASTERN ONTARIO — You can forgive farmers and property owners along the region’s CP Rail line for feeling railroaded. The company is coming after them for costs to maintain private crossings... Read more

EDWARDS — A farm fundraiser will donate its proceeds to Skuce Repairs, a farm equipment repair shop, south of urban Ottawa, that lost most of its property in a Boxing Day fire. The fundraise... Read more

OTTAWA — Ontario farmers plan to grow more corn and soybeans over last year — a record acreage in corn’s case — according to the latest Statistics Canada survey of planting intentions. Read more

75,000 visitors expected to attend the five-day event KEMPTVILLE — After a two-year hiatus, the International Plowing Match & Rural Expo is set to resume just five months from now — in K... Read more

  Nelson Zandbergen Farmers Forum WATERLOO — Ontario poultry farms have been hammered by the worst outbreak of the Avian influenza virus ever seen in Canada, with flocks infected in nin... Read more

Customers drive up to three hours, pay $5 a bird Nelson Zandbergen Farmers Forum SOUTH MOUNTAIN — In an era when abattoirs have become almost as scarce as hen’s teeth, Berube Poultry continu... Read more

EASTERN ONTARIO — Last year’s maple syrup production — down about 20 per cent across the province—left many disappointed. Not this year. Read more

ONTARIO — When the Ontario Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals got out of the business of enforcing animal welfare laws in 2019, the Ford government replaced that sometimes cont... Read more

PETERBOROUGH — Peterborough-area beef farmer Walter Ray could be out $144,000 and he’s not taking it lightly. The province confiscated 101 of his beef animals and he was billed between $20 t... Read more

NORTH LANCASTER — Ontario poultry farms have been hammered by the worst outbreak of Avian flu in more than a decade. Read more

LEEDS — Mark Claessen grew up wanting to farm and decided Canada was the place to go. For the last 44 years he toiled diligently on the Leeds County farm, west of Mallorytown, where he and h... Read more

ONTARIO — Black-legged tick territory appears largely unchanged in Ontario,  but with some observed expansion in the blood-sucking arachnid’s range between Peterborough and Durham coun... Read more

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Irena Vélez Farmers Forum BOTHWELL — There is a surge in interest for robots that help with vegetable crops. “There’s been an exponential increase in interest in these robots,” said Grant El... Read more

Farmers Forum staff If Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer succeeds in closing down Enbridge Line 5, she will stick American families and businesses with billions of dollars in higher costs a... Read more

WOODSTOCK — Bring your own bottle to Ontario’s latest on-farm processor where a featured vending machine will allow customers to conveniently fill up with cold, beautiful milk — all by thems... Read more

OTTAWA — Canada has banned sales of new ve- hicles powered by gas or diesel by 2035 – only 13 years away. There will be exceptions for semi-trucks and agricultural vehicles. Meantime, used p... Read more

Nelson Zandbergen Farmers Forum LAMBTON COUNTY — Input costs and supply-chain anxieties are soaring to new heights as war in Ukraine picks up where the pandemic left off. While conflict in E... Read more

Dundas Federation of Agriculture holds its first in-person no mask annual general meeting since the start of the pandemic. The meeting was held last month at Tom MacGregor’s Moorewood-area d... Read more

  Nelson Zandbergen Farmers Forum EASTERN ONTARIO — The latest group of “all-Canadian” Holsteins includes a handful of animals owned by Eastern Ontario farmers. All-Canadian recognition... Read more