Farmers at much higher risk of suicide Beware of chronic stress, heavy workload, psychotherapist warns Patrick Meagher Farmers Forum A Western Ontario farmer was under such a heavy burden of... Read more

Maynard van der Galien Renfrew County Back in September I asked an acquaintance, who lives in the country but doesn’t farm, if they had the usual number of house flies, or more or fewer than... Read more

SIMCOE COUNTY — Everyone who handles, conditions, and stores grain knows that there are more than a few challenges in the business ... Read more

WALLACETOWN — At age 20 and fresh out of Ridgetown College, where he studied agriculture, Garrett Dieleman was one of many up-and-coming farmers in the area ... Read more

Patrick Meagher Editor Last year was a year of lows. We went from having little confidence in our leaders and experts to having even less. We don’t trust them and our leaders and experts hav... Read more

MOREWOOD — Glenn Smirle hasn’t looked back since trading in his Holsteins for honeybees six years ago. Read more

John Tierney Fraser Institute There have been worse plagues than COVID, but none has ever done so much damage to the world’s scientific institutions. In the pre-COVID era, the public health... Read more

LYNDHURST — In light of the extremely productive, but also very intensive manner of today’s farming, it is also possible to produce food through more of an “ecology management” technique ... Read more

PERTH — Shane Reid was especially delighted at the performance of an American-born Black Angus yearling — Buchanan’s Bruno — in the ring at the Royal Winter Fair in Toronto this past Novembe... Read more

Canada needs to keep track of land purchases here, researcher says James Pascual Farmers Forum OTTAWA — The state of Florida plans to ban Chinese nationals from buying farmland and property... Read more

Second round leukosis testing begins University of Guelph’s herd health surveillance project continues in 2023 GUELPH — Milk at all Ontario dairy farms will soon be sampled and tested again... Read more

Get’r built or lose the quota Barn burned three years ago, race on to complete reconstruction by end of February Nelson Zandbergen Farmers Forum FRANKFORD — Quinte West dairy farmer Maurice... Read more

One of the most important marketing considerations as we market Ontario’s potentially record large 2023 wheat crop is that international export markets are going to become a key driver of do... Read more

44 % of Canadian fruit and vegetable growers sold produce at a loss in 2022, growers say Rebecca Lee Executive director of the Fruit and Vegetable Growers of Canada Speaking to the House of... Read more

Ottawa-area farmers face insurance hassles after huge storm ... Read more

OTTAWA — Farm equipment manufacturers are sounding the alarm over proposed invasive “right to repair” legislation in Canada that will make their proprietary technology easier for China to ri... Read more

CHATHAM — After a two-year pandemic pause, the annual Chatham Kent Farm Show returns to the John D. Bradley Convention Centre on Jan. 25-26. Read more

Local Dutch farmers glad to be in Canada While Dutch farmers cry in their barns, Ontario farmers don’t see doom and gloom here Nelson Zandbergen Farmers Forum WESTERN ONTARIO — Ontario farme... Read more

U.S. fruit and vegetable farmers get more green funding Growers take all the risks, while grocery chains reap the rewards Farmers Forum staff OTTAWA — Canada needs to level the playing field... Read more

StatCan wipes out 25 years of food inflation data, Food Professor says Read more

Ontario drops $35 million to bolster food automation and address labour gaps Nelson Zandbergen Farmers Forum TORONTO — Ontarians will eat more food grown and processed in the province 10 yea... Read more

PETERBOROUGH — Ontario’s animal police have lost a second legal round in their bid to extract more than $375,000 from a 78-year-old Warsaw-area beef farmer to cover costly animal-boarding fe... Read more

Ontario farmers dump 1.7 million litres of milk One farmer dumped milk last year but got no compensation Nelson Zandbergen Farmers Forum WESTERN ONTARIO — Nobody picked up the tab when bad w... Read more

One of the most important marketing considerations as we market Ontario’s potentially record large 2023 wheat crop is that international export markets are going to become a key driver of do... Read more

There was plenty of warning of the “generational storm” forecast to hit Ontario Christmas weekend. Even if the predictions changed (as weather forecasts are prone to do) and it wasn’t expect... Read more

Canada sets corn yield record, Ontario sets winter wheat record Farmers Forum staff OTTAWA — Canada’s 2022 crop season produced a record corn harvest and third-largest wheat harvest. But Ont... Read more

Expect strong demand for farm equipment in 2023, FCC says Farmers Forum staff ONTARIO — Strong demand for increasingly expensive farm equipment will persist into 2023 despite higher interest... Read more

Ontario beef herd numbers on decline since 2018 Farmers Forum staff ONTARIO — Ontario’s beef herd numbers continued their decline in 2022, in line with an overall North American trend identi... Read more

OTTAWA — Farmers headed into 2022 amid strong crop prices that followed one of the most bountiful growing seasons in living memory. Alongside this optimism, however, was an intensified socie... Read more

EASTERN ONTARIO — Ontario farmers continue to be concerned about Dutch farmers as the Netherlands government presses ahead to shrink herd-size and impose fertilizer cuts — and now, expropria... Read more

EASTERN ONTARIO — Ontario dairy farmers dumped about 1.7 million litres of milk due to the Christmas weekend blizzard that left roads impassable to traffic, including the tanker trucks that... Read more

ONTARIO — Ontario farmers have until Jan. 18 to apply for federal environmental money through the Ontario Soil & Crop Improvement Association. Individual grants range up to $30,000 for n... Read more

NAPANEE — Sixty-three-year-old Napanee-area farmer Laurie Simpson wore a green John Deere toque as he walked out of his house around 6 p.m. to do some chores during the Christmas Eve blizzar... Read more

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TORONTO — More than 190 nations got together in Montreal this month to figure out how to protect nature from people. They came away with a deal for the world that is so vague, it’s difficult... Read more

The ever-optimistic among us hoped we’d seen the worst COVID impacts. If that were true, a moderation in demand would help to lower inflationary pressures without invoking dramatic monetary... Read more

GUELPH — From corn-fed beef to bran-based kitty litter, the Grain Farmers of Ontario have invested in all manner of special projects to spur increased usage and awareness of the corn, soybea... Read more

This year was the 100th anniversary of the Royal Winter Fair in Toronto. Cattle judging, above, dates back to 1930. Read more

EMBRUN — Sexed semen technology allows Ontario’s dairy herds to produce hybrid beef cattle but the technology can be a double-edged sword. Read more

Volunteers with the Ottawa Valley Seed Growers Association have been working closely with seed shows in the valley since 1927. Over the decades, local involvement opportunities have continue... Read more

BLACKSTOCK — Add another honour to the award shelf for the owners of Altona Lea Farms in Blackstock. Read more

KINBURN — At Bruce Hudson’s Kinburn farm, potatoes are a sideline compared to his 700 acres of conventional cash-crops and a commercial farrow-to-finishing hog operation. Read more

ALMONTE — A cow and a bull claimed victory in separate attacks on humans last month. Read more

On November 15, the world’s population reached eight billion people. Read more

THEDFORD — At Stewardson Dairy in Thedford, co-owner Jeff Stewardson estimates that a female beef-dairy calf fetches $100 more than a Holstein bull calf. The difference rises to $200 for a b... Read more

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ONTARIO — Ontario’s farm cash receipts continued their upward trajectory in the first three quarters of 2022. The January through September period saw Ontario farm cash receipts hit almost $... Read more

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